Larry,

you seem to make the unfounded assumption that when I post what I think shall happen I agree it should happen. But if you want to know, I'm not a pacifist though a proud conscientious objector. But that would be a theme for another thread.

A commentary from 'Frankfurter Rundschau' (my translation):

The world is our home. Now, the CIA can say that again about itself. And it says it loud - with the explosion of a van in Yemen. In it was sitting a presumed Al Quaeda terrorist, who is dead now, same as five fellow passengers. These were possibly terrorists as well, but nothing is known about that.

The Agency has arrived in the past again. For a long time it had - at least officially - to watch idly when something in the world went another way than it thought it should. The war against terror has ended this politically enforced restraint. First in Afghanistan, but that was a war. Not in Yemen, but the front seems to be everywhere where terrorists are.

Presumably, the Yemen government has approved of the missile attack, possibly the murderer of 17 US soldiers has been killed in the attack, it even could be that the other dead were guilty in the sense that they might have been sentenced in a fair trial. We shall never know. For indictment/prosecution (both translations possible here), trial and sentence have been negotiated and decided in a not public proceeding at and by the CIA. We know parts of the indictment, and we know the sentence that has been carried out publicly by the CIA. Israel's same-type liquidations of presumed Palestine terrorists are routinely condemned by the USA. Which is no question of principle, as we now know. Only a questions of what suits.

Wolfgang