US, Germany Sued Over Somalia Drone Strike

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Alwaght- A Somali blamed the United States and Germany for their roles in the drone killing of his father, whom he says was an innocent man caught up in an attack in Somalia.
"CD," as the man is called in court documents, said his father, a camel herder called "AB," died in a drone bombing in southern Somalia in February 2012, according to the Guardian newspaper published in London.
In a criminal case being heard in the German town of Zweibruecken , he says his father was killed amid the hunt for Mohamed Sakr, a former British citizen and suspected member of the Somalia-based terrorist group Al-Shabaab. His attorneys say in addition to US culpability for the death of CD's father, Germany “plays an indispensable role in secret drone killings in Somalia” given it hosts military bases that are involved in US drone operations that end in “unlawful covert killing” and exceed the international definition of a war zone.
In June this year US President Barack Obama was also sued by families of two Yemeni men, Salem bin Ali Jaber and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, who were killed in a drone strike in 2012.
The families lodged a wrongful death lawsuit against the Obama administration for the August 2012 incident that “violated the laws of war and norms of customary international law.”
The strike “provide[s] a case study of the failures of the drone war,” read the 41-page complaint filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
The lawsuit names Obama, former defense secretary Leon Panetta and former CIA director David Petraeus as people who were behind the attack.
These officials “are responsible not only for innocent deaths, but also for undermining rather than protecting US national security,” the families said.
The US uses drones in an alleged bid to target terrorists in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere. However, local officials and witnesses say the drone strikes mostly kill innocent civilians.

Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

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