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CIA didn’t know strike would hit al-Qaeda leader - IceWizard - 06-18-2015
The CIA did not know in advance that al-
Qaeda’s leader in Yemen was among the
suspected militants targeted in a lethal drone
strike last week, according to U.S. officials who
said that the operation went forward under
counterterrorism guidelines that were eased by the Obama administration after the collapse of
the U.S.-backed government in Yemen this
year. The officials said that Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who
also served as al-Qaeda’s overall second-in-
command, was killed in a “signature strike,†in
which the CIA is permitted to fire based on
patterns of suspected militant activity even if
the agency does not know the identities of those who could be killed. The disclosure indicates that the CIA continues
to employ a controversial targeting method that
the administration had signaled in 2013 that it
intended to phase out, particularly in Yemen,
which U.S. officials have said is subject to more
stringent rules on the use of lethal force than in Pakistan.
Http://washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaedas-leader-in-yemen-killed-in-signature-strike-us-officials-say/2015/06/17/9fe6673c-151b-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html
Does this actually surprise anybody ...