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January 9, 2014

White House Launches Probe as Video Emerges of Yemen Drone Attack 
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The Obama administration has launched an internal investigation of a
drone strike that reportedly killed 12 people in Yemen last month. The
victims were on their way to a wedding when they were apparently
mistaken for an al-Qaeda convoy. NBC News reports the strike was carried
out by the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. The White House
probe comes after the human rights group Reprieve released new video
showing the victims' burned corpses lined up on the ground for burial.
In a statement, Reprieve said: "In bombing a wedding, the U.S.
government has demonstrated that they either don’t know or don’t
care who they were targeting. As a result, 12 innocent lives have been
lost and many more destroyed … We can only hope [the] internal
investigation is robust and that it results in needed policy change and
reparation for those affected."