{"id":35577,"date":"2013-05-23T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-administration-admits-drone-attacks-killed-4-us-citizens\/35577\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T17:02:48","slug":"obama-administration-admits-drone-attacks-killed-4-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-administration-admits-drone-attacks-killed-4-us-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='node-body'>\n<p>The Obama administration&#039;s drone strikes have killed four U.S. citizens, it admitted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/slideshow\/AG-letter-5-22-13.pdf\">letter <\/a>to senior members of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder writes that in addition to the targeted assassination of cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, since 2009, three other U.S. citizens&mdash;Samir Khan, Abd aI-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed&mdash;were also killed in &#8220;U.S. counterterrorism operations&#8221; though they &#8220;were not specifically targeted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item odd\">\n                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imagecache\/news_archive_thumbnail\/article_images\/abdulrahman-al-aulaki-0522.jpg\" alt=\"[field_image_caption-raw]\" title=\"\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-news_archive_thumbnail imagecache-default imagecache-news_archive_thumbnail_default\" width=\"70\" height=\"40\" \/>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/05\/22-11\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/05\/22-11\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Obama Administration Admits Drone Attacks Killed 4 US Citizens\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration&#039;s drone strikes have killed four U.S. citizens, it admitted on Wednesday. In a letter to senior members of Congress, Attorney General Eric Holder writes that in addition to the targeted assassination of cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, since 2009, three other U.S. citizens&mdash;Samir Khan, Abd aI-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed&mdash;were also killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}