http://www.economist.com/node/21561927
The
Economist [UK]
1
September 2012
Yemen and the United States
It
is uncertain whether America's
drones have their intended effect
SANA'A
-- [...] If these tribesmen are anything to go by, the Americans' increasingly
active deployment of drones is far from winning Yemeni hearts and minds in the
battle against jihadism.
"Our
people ask how these foreign planes have a right to come here and kill them,
even if some of the people they kill are al-Qaeda," says a friend of the
sheikh, a smuggler. "The other thing is that they think the drones are
taking photos of them and spying on them. Because of this, our people have
finished with America.
They see America
as this," he adds, making the letter X with his fingers. All the men on
the cushions are convinced that drones photograph their wives, a vile insult in
conservative Yemen.
[...]
