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Yemen 1st-Hand: When the US Drones Attacked My Village (al-Muslimi)
Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 7:23 | Scott Lucas in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran
If you live in Yemen, the golden rule is to expect anything any time. That, however, does not include expecting your hometown village — one of the most peaceful and beautiful places in Yemen — to be bombed. The peacefulness of such a place makes you believe that no one has ever heard of it, let alone that it is bombed by a US drone strike at night.
That, however, is the reason that I received many messages from villagers on my two cell phones last night.