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November 13, 2014

U.S. Made $100,000 in Secret Payments to Families of Yemen Drone Strike Victims 
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The British group Reprieve has revealed the United States has made
secret compensation payments to the families of two Yemeni civilians
mistakenly killed in a drone strike. A relative of the victims, Faisal
bin Ali Jaber, was given a bag containing $100,000 at a meeting with
Yemeni officials. The United States made the payments despite never
publicly confirming its responsibility for the killings nor issuing an
apology.

 

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