{"id":17027,"date":"2012-11-07T15:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=17027"},"modified":"2012-11-08T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:10:50","slug":"obama-bombs-yemen-hours-after-winning-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-bombs-yemen-hours-after-winning-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/world\/2012-11\/08\/c_123927106.htm\">ordered another drone strike in Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-bombs-yemen-hours-after-winning-reelection\/p091812ps-0756\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17028\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17028\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/p091812ps-0756-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday night, killing at least three terrorists, government officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-drone-strikes_n_2089836.html?1352326649&amp;ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008\">Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0A White House spokesman did not respond to a request for comment. If it were a American strike, of course, it would have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_hplink\">to have been authorized by Obama<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The drone war violates both <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/the-laws-obama-is-breaking-in-his-relentless-drone-war\/\">domestic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/drones-my-lai-and-prosecuting-the-powerful\/\">international law<\/a>, and the Obama administration&#8217;s vehement disdain for transparency in government is the only thing keeping it from public and legal scrutiny. Beyond the law, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/09\/25\/study-counterproductive-drone-war-terrorizes-civilians-in-pakistna\/\">it&#8217;s terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not even a full day had passed before newly reelected President Obama ordered another drone strike in Yemen. A U.S. drone strike targeted a group of al-Qaida militants on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday night, killing at least three terrorists, government officials said. Huffington Post: \u00a0A White House spokesman did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17062,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions\/17062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}