Secrets of US Drone Strikes in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan Revealed

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Alwaght- A new set of classified documents has revealed the inner workings of US terror drone operations in Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan including the mechanism of targeting suspects slated for assassination.
A US online magazine, The Intercept released the documents on Thursday saying they were provided by a source within the US intelligence community who wished to remain anonymous because of the government's aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers. The documents, slides, visuals and analysis have been posted online by the magazine.
The whistleblower says the American public has the right to know about the process by which people are placed on kill lists and assassinated on orders from top US government officials.
The whistleblower says, “This outrageous explosion of watchlisting — of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield — it was, from the very first instance, wrong.”
The cache contains two sets of slides detailing the US military's drone operations in Somalia and Yemen between 2011 and 2013, by the secret Task Force 48-4.
Additional documents on drone operations in Afghanistan show that the US government has categorized unidentified people killed in drone strikes as enemies, even if they were not the intended targets, thus masking the true extent of civilian casualties.
The US uses assassination drones in several countries -- including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen - to target what it calls militants. According to witnesses, however, the attacks have mostly led to civilian deaths.
According to the Human Rights Watch (HRW), the US drone strikes have killed many civilians over the past few years in a blatant violation of international law.

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