2 Qaeda Hostages Were Accidentally Killed in U.S. Strike, White House Says

[Dr. Haxx]

[QUOTE]“Analysis of all available information has led the intelligence community to judge with high confidence that the operation accidentally killed both hostages,” Obama’s press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/2-qaeda-hostages-were-accidentally-killed-in-us-raid-white-house-says.html"]Source[/URL]

It's rather sad & curious in the same time:
the drone strike occured in January, but the statements appeared recently.

[CB-COMINatCHA]

i don't see obama this upset over the many native civilians killed in drone strikes

[CrossTownNews]

What worse revenge is a virtue I believe in that part of the world. More recruits for ISIS!

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=CrossTownNews;47587010]What worse revenge is a virtue I believe in that part of the world. More recruits for ISIS![/QUOTE]

People believe in it in the west a lot as well.

[Nigademus]

[QUOTE=CB-COMINatCHA;47585419]i don't see obama this upset over the many native civilians killed in drone strikes[/QUOTE]
Would you expect him to be?

[Darth Hater]

[QUOTE=CB-COMINatCHA;47585419]i don't see obama this upset over the many native civilians killed in drone strikes[/QUOTE]Those weren't civilians. They were military-age males in a strike zone. Their fault for being under our bombs, practically (and legally) makes them combatants.

Really though, I'm not going to speculate what he personally feels, but in the case of his administration, in the many cases of foreign civilians being killed in our strikes it's simply because they do not care (enough).

[Kube]

[QUOTE=Darth Hater;47589942]Those weren't civilians. They were military-age males in a strike zone. Their fault for being under our bombs, practically (and legally) makes them combatants.

Really though, I'm not going to speculate what he personally feels, but in the case of his administration, in the many cases of foreign civilians being killed in our strikes it's simply because they do not care (enough).[/QUOTE]

So because some people could simply be at the wrong place at the wrong time makes it all okay?

That's a fucked up point of view.

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=LtKyle2;47590863]So because some people could simply be at the wrong place at the wrong time makes it all okay?

That's a fucked up point of view.[/QUOTE]

He didn't say it was okay. He was being satirical to make the opposite point, that it's not okay.

[joes33431]

the us government is willing to admit (at least this time) that it screwed up during a military operation

it's a start

[That Deer]

[QUOTE=joes33431;47608167]the us government is willing to admit (at least this time) that it screwed up during a military operation

it's a start[/QUOTE]

Next, let's shoot for just 2 months before we tell people we made a mistake.

[Unknown]

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;47608485]Next, let's shoot for just 2 months before we tell people we made a mistake.[/QUOTE]

It takes time to investigate the results of a drone strike, or rather it takes time for information about the result of a strike to spread back to US intelligence and for that information to be confirmed and corroborated.

It's hard to tell how long, if at all, the US government actually delayed the release of this information. Though I'm sure they weren't in any rush to admit this had happened.