When Targeted Assassinations Go Bad - way too often - why?

Bad intelligence, killing the wrong person - oops! Why to snipers, drones and bombs often hit the wrong target?



Because someone is just getting even, trying to make money, or settling some sort of "score" that has nothing to do with wining any war.



You'd think in a day of 24/7 news coverage and cell phone news stations that folks would figure out that to "win" the long war - oops killings can hurt you as much or more than ones that might be justified in some way.



Learn it now - will ya!?

Amplify’d from circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

Critique of targeted killings in Afghanistan

Zabet Amanullah, killed in error by US forces

Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network has written an excellent analysis of the alleged killing by Coalition forces of the Taliban deputy shadow governor of Takhar in September 2010. She claims, with plenty of evidence, that the person killed - along with nine other people - was in fact Zabet Amanullah, a former Taliban fighter who had laid down his weapons in 2001. Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com

 

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