The following was reported on December 21, 2009; reposted here for background.
Following a military operation in Yemen targeting suspected al Qa'eda militants, a local official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes which he said were carried out "indiscriminately," Agence France Presse reported.
Earlier it had been reported by ABC News that on orders from the US President Barack Obama, the US military had launched cruise missiles in the attacks.
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For a rather more discriminate retribution, Eight US CIA Officers are killed in a bomb attack, in Afghanistan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8435502.stm. The Afghanistan CIA killings is a major blow to the US and its Middle-Eastern side-kick, Jordan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8442473.stm
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