US drone strikes target ‘innocent civilians’: Journalist
US drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere mostly target “innocent civilians” who are not involved in any conflict, an author and radio host in Chicago says.
Several important studies in the US have shown that the vast majority of casualties resulting from America’s drone war are innocent civilians, Stephen Lendman told Press TV on Friday.
The victims “have nothing to with any of the conflicts going on in Afghanistan, in northwestern Pakistan, in Yemen, in Somalia and other places where America wages drone wars,” Lendman said.
“So all the big lies coming out of Washington that they only hit militants, well they’re big lies because they mostly hit the civilians,” he added.
Since 2004, the US has been carrying out drone strikes in Afghanistan and several other Muslim countries, such as Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia despite international criticism.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Lendman pointed to the military attacks by Saudi Arabia on Yemen, saying the campaign is “getting very, very serious” and is “exploding into a real war.”
Early on Thursday, Saudi Arabia started military operation against the Houthi movement's Ansarullah fighters who have gained power in the country.
“This is (President Barack) Obama’s war, using Saudi Arabia, using other [Persian] Gulf states, Egypt, Turkey,” Lendman stated.
Obama authorized the Pentagon to provide logistical and intelligence support to Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, according to National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan.
Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and some Arab allies on Thursday bombed the positions of the Ansarullah fighters and launched attacks against the Sana'a airport and the Dulaimi airbase.
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