It's really hard to get to the facts of these drone cases because every military aged male automatically gets classified as enemy combatant unless intelligence

It's really hard to get to the facts of these drone cases because every military aged male automatically gets classified as enemy combatant unless intelligence proves after the fact that they were innocent. Most news sources will blindly accept the definition of enemy combatant provided by the government so there is minimal uproar. I would trust Mr Kareem over the US government on this because it fits the pattern of how the drone wars work. For a good source on this issue I would recommend: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill or the Drone Papers from the intercept which were the basis for the book. >"The White House and Pentagon boast that the targeted killing program is precise and that civilian deaths are minimal. However, documents detailing a special operations campaign in northeastern Afghanistan, Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse." https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/ https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...