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Have actual weddings been targeted by drones?

• deleted 13y ago
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• tdfx 13y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airst... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedding_party_airstrike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedding_party_airstrik... I'm not sure whether the airstrikes were performed by manned aircraft or drones.
  • jasonlotito 13y ago
    Can you share the reason for why these weddings were targeted? I'm only wondering if the members might have been combatants or insurgents or terrorists? Or was their something about the wedding itself that made it a target? What is the US policy on weddings?
    • lostlogin 13y ago
      An aid worker who was in Afghanistan in the 1980 told me that people often carried weapons to weddings and fired them in the air at some stage. The weapons were ceremonial. Not sure how reliable the following is, and it refers to Pakistan, but it is interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Pakistan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Pakistan
  • jafaku 13y ago
    Pretty sure it was drones. They just killed everyone, and then double-tapped to kill first responders.