US President Donald Trump's second term has seen a massive escalation in drone strikes, with at least 190 attacks in Somalia alone. The US has also been involved in armed interventions and military operations in various regions, resulting in the killing of more than 2,000 civilians worldwide.
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Trump Goes on a Global Killing Spree Then Insults His Victims “It’s filthy dirty, disgusting dirty,” Trump said of Somalia, but in truth, that’s a more apt description for the soul of the country that exports slaughter, year after year, and is led by a man who revels in it. As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession.
US troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H. W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor,troops had begun attacking various targets in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, linked to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had helped overthrow dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.in that city where a group of Somali clan leaders was meeting. The International Committee of the Red Cross said 54 people were killed and 161 wounded.
Aidid claimed that 73 Somalis had died,Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from And it wasn’t long before—in the early 2000s, under Bush’s son, George W., as part of what became known as the Global War on Terror—American troops began slaughtering Somalis again. In addition to major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush, the younger, launched early drone wars fromHowever, for all those years of slaughter in Somalia, no American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald J. Trump, especially in his second term in office..
Obama presided over 48 strikes during his eight years in office that killed as many as 553 people. Trump’s first term saw a massive escalation in such drone strikes. Over his first four years, Trump carried out 219 attacks, a 271% increase over the 16 years of theand Obama presidencies. But even that spike has paled in comparison to the relentless rate of attacks during Trump’s second term in office.
While Biden exceeded Obama’s total in half the time—51 strikes in four years—Trump is already set to eclipse his own infamous first-term record in less than a year and a half. He has presided over at least 190, if not more, air strikes in Somalia. Trump’s killing spree in Somalia is just a small part of his wider war on the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that he has the“run around shooting” people on an epic scale.
During his two terms in office, Trump has overseen armed interventions and military operations—including air strikes, commando raids, proxy conflicts, so-called 127e programs, and full-scale wars—inin the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. His second term has, in fact, been a furious blitz of global war making, only half noticed by the American news media. In March, for example, the, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America.
During that span, the US also struck a civilian boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.
“This is unprecedented in terms of the sheer number of theaters where harm to civilians has been reported within such a short space of time,”Since the US began conducting air strikes in Somalia back in 2007, as many as 170 civilians have been killed,. The US military has, however, only admitted to six of those deaths and 11 other injuries—and has never publicly apologized to any families of the victims or those who survived its attacks.
In one April 2018 attack in Somalia during Trump’s first term, a US drone strike killed at least three civilians. A woman and child were among the dead, according to formerly secret US military investigation documents, but the same report concluded that their identities might never be known. A 2023 investigation I undertook for The Intercept, however, exposed the details of that disastrous attack.
The woman and child—22-year-old—survived the initial strike but were killed by a double-tap attack as they fled for their lives. Abdi Dahir Mohamed, one of Luul’s brothers, said of the Americans who killed his sister and niece: “They know innocent people were killed, but they’ve never told us a reason or apologized. No one has been held accountable. ”in his war of choice in Iran.
“US-Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 2,362 civilians, including 383 children, and injured over 32,314 civilians, according to official figures,” Raha Bahreini, a regional researcher with Amnesty International’s Iran Team, told this reporter and other journalists during a recent press briefing. The deaths include more than 150 children killed in a Tomahawk missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in southern Iran. The preliminary findings of a US militarycontinues to evade responsibility.
“This incident is currently under investigation,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently told lawmakers, refusing to answer questions about the attack during testimony on Capitol Hill. Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and US military and independent estimates of The administration has also been responsible for a steady drumbeat of attacks on civilians in the waters surrounding Latin America.
Under Operation Southern Spear, theare members of one of at least 24 or more cartels and criminal gangs with whom it claims to be at war butkilled in an attack on an immigrant detention center there last year.
“The Trump administration’s Yemen campaign, and this attack in particular, should have set off alarm bells for anyone invested in how the US military operates, and the amount of care or disdain it shows for civilian life,” Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said recently. “One year on, not only has there been no discernible progress towards justice and reparation, but we’re still lacking basic information about what happened in the Yemen attack, why it happened and what steps if any the US military has taken to address it.
”by US airstrikes during the Trump administration’s campaign of air and naval strikes against that country’s Houthi government. TheSuch deaths are just part of a long butcher’s bill in Yemen stretching back to the very beginning of Trump’s first term. A report by the Yemen-based group Mwatana forexamined 12 US attacks in Yemen between January 2017 and January 2019, 10 of them “counterterrorism airstrikes.
” The authors found that at least 38 Yemeni civilians—19 men, six women, and 13 children—were killed and seven others injured in the attacks. Among them was aon a Yemeni village just days after Trump took office for the first time in which women and children died. A year later, the US fired a missile into a sports utility vehicle near the village of Al Uqla. Three of the men inside were killed instantly.
Another died days later in a local hospital. The only survivor,“The Attack Was Horrible and Their Response Was Horrible. I Lost a Wife and a Child” “It’s a horrible place,” Trump said of Somalia during that same racist rant.
“Everything is horrible over there. ” The US attack that killed the mother and daughter was the product of faulty intelligence as well as rushed, imprecise targeting by a Special Operations strike cell whose members, according to the military investigation conducted later, considered themselves inexperienced. That inquiry led to an admission that civilians were killed and a strong suggestion of confirmation bias .
Despite that, the investigation exonerated the team involved. To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia.
“The strike complied with the applicable rules of engagement,” according to that investigation. “othing in the strike procedures caused this inaccurate call. ” Luul’s husband and Mariam’s father, Shilow Muse Ali, was stunned as he tried to process those words.
“The attack was horrible and their response was horrible. I lost a wife and a child,” he told me.
“But I cannot understand the explanation in the investigation. How can you admit that you killed two civilians and also say the rules were followed? ”.
“The burden of proof as to who could be targeted and for what reason changed dramatically,” retired Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, who led Special Operations Command Africa at the time,, by contrast, strikes required high-level approval, according to a drone pilot and strike cell analyst, who served in Somalia the year Luul and Mariam were killed. “Giving strike authority down to a ground commander was a massive difference,” he explained. “It had a big effect.
” Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia. Nor has anyone been held responsible for those killed in the strike in Yemen that gravely wounded. Or those slain in the raid on a Yemeni village by Navy SEALs.
Or the innocents who died in the attack on an immigrant detention center in that country. Or in the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean Sea. Or for the attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Iran. Some of those attacks could well have been categorized as crimes of war.
Others are certainly extrajudicial killings—or, simply put, outright murders. Those deaths and so many others can be traced back to“It’s filthy dirty, disgusting dirty,” Trump said of Somalia, but in truth, that’s a more apt description for the soul of the country that exports slaughter, year after year, and is led by a man who revels in it.
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As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. US troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H. W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor,troops had begun attacking various targets in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, linked to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had helped overthrow dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.in that city where a group of Somali clan leaders was meeting.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said 54 people were killed and 161 wounded. Aidid claimed that 73 Somalis had died,Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from And it wasn’t long before—in the early 2000s, under Bush’s son, George W., as part of what became known as the Global War on Terror—American troops began slaughtering Somalis again.
In addition to major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush, the younger, launched early drone wars fromHowever, for all those years of slaughter in Somalia, no American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald J. Trump, especially in his second term in office.. Obama presided over 48 strikes during his eight years in office that killed as many as 553 people. Trump’s first term saw a massive escalation in such drone strikes.
Over his first four years, Trump carried out 219 attacks, a 271% increase over the 16 years of theand Obama presidencies. But even that spike has paled in comparison to the relentless rate of attacks during Trump’s second term in office. While Biden exceeded Obama’s total in half the time—51 strikes in four years—Trump is already set to eclipse his own infamous first-term record in less than a year and a half.
He has presided over at least 190, if not more, air strikes in Somalia. Trump’s killing spree in Somalia is just a small part of his wider war on the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that he has the“run around shooting” people on an epic scale.
During his two terms in office, Trump has overseen armed interventions and military operations—including air strikes, commando raids, proxy conflicts, so-called 127e programs, and full-scale wars—inin the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. His second term has, in fact, been a furious blitz of global war making, only half noticed by the American news media. In March, for example, the, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America.
During that span, the US also struck a civilian boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.
“This is unprecedented in terms of the sheer number of theaters where harm to civilians has been reported within such a short space of time,”Since the US began conducting air strikes in Somalia back in 2007, as many as 170 civilians have been killed,. The US military has, however, only admitted to six of those deaths and 11 other injuries—and has never publicly apologized to any families of the victims or those who survived its attacks.
In one April 2018 attack in Somalia during Trump’s first term, a US drone strike killed at least three civilians. A woman and child were among the dead, according to formerly secret US military investigation documents, but the same report concluded that their identities might never be known. A 2023 investigation I undertook for The Intercept, however, exposed the details of that disastrous attack.
The woman and child—22-year-old—survived the initial strike but were killed by a double-tap attack as they fled for their lives. Abdi Dahir Mohamed, one of Luul’s brothers, said of the Americans who killed his sister and niece: “They know innocent people were killed, but they’ve never told us a reason or apologized. No one has been held accountable. ”in his war of choice in Iran.
“US-Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 2,362 civilians, including 383 children, and injured over 32,314 civilians, according to official figures,” Raha Bahreini, a regional researcher with Amnesty International’s Iran Team, told this reporter and other journalists during a recent press briefing. The deaths include more than 150 children killed in a Tomahawk missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in southern Iran. The preliminary findings of a US militarycontinues to evade responsibility.
“This incident is currently under investigation,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently told lawmakers, refusing to answer questions about the attack during testimony on Capitol Hill. Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and US military and independent estimates of The administration has also been responsible for a steady drumbeat of attacks on civilians in the waters surrounding Latin America.
Under Operation Southern Spear, theare members of one of at least 24 or more cartels and criminal gangs with whom it claims to be at war butkilled in an attack on an immigrant detention center there last year.
“The Trump administration’s Yemen campaign, and this attack in particular, should have set off alarm bells for anyone invested in how the US military operates, and the amount of care or disdain it shows for civilian life,” Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said recently. “One year on, not only has there been no discernible progress towards justice and reparation, but we’re still lacking basic information about what happened in the Yemen attack, why it happened and what steps if any the US military has taken to address it.
”by US airstrikes during the Trump administration’s campaign of air and naval strikes against that country’s Houthi government. TheSuch deaths are just part of a long butcher’s bill in Yemen stretching back to the very beginning of Trump’s first term. A report by the Yemen-based group Mwatana forexamined 12 US attacks in Yemen between January 2017 and January 2019, 10 of them “counterterrorism airstrikes.
” The authors found that at least 38 Yemeni civilians—19 men, six women, and 13 children—were killed and seven others injured in the attacks. Among them was aon a Yemeni village just days after Trump took office for the first time in which women and children died. A year later, the US fired a missile into a sports utility vehicle near the village of Al Uqla. Three of the men inside were killed instantly.
Another died days later in a local hospital. The only survivor,“The Attack Was Horrible and Their Response Was Horrible. I Lost a Wife and a Child” “It’s a horrible place,” Trump said of Somalia during that same racist rant.
“Everything is horrible over there. ” The US attack that killed the mother and daughter was the product of faulty intelligence as well as rushed, imprecise targeting by a Special Operations strike cell whose members, according to the military investigation conducted later, considered themselves inexperienced. That inquiry led to an admission that civilians were killed and a strong suggestion of confirmation bias .
Despite that, the investigation exonerated the team involved. To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia.
“The strike complied with the applicable rules of engagement,” according to that investigation. “othing in the strike procedures caused this inaccurate call. ” Luul’s husband and Mariam’s father, Shilow Muse Ali, was stunned as he tried to process those words.
“The attack was horrible and their response was horrible. I lost a wife and a child,” he told me.
“But I cannot understand the explanation in the investigation. How can you admit that you killed two civilians and also say the rules were followed? ”.
“The burden of proof as to who could be targeted and for what reason changed dramatically,” retired Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, who led Special Operations Command Africa at the time,, by contrast, strikes required high-level approval, according to a drone pilot and strike cell analyst, who served in Somalia the year Luul and Mariam were killed. “Giving strike authority down to a ground commander was a massive difference,” he explained. “It had a big effect.
” Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia. Nor has anyone been held responsible for those killed in the strike in Yemen that gravely wounded. Or those slain in the raid on a Yemeni village by Navy SEALs.
Or the innocents who died in the attack on an immigrant detention center in that country. Or in the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean Sea. Or for the attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Iran. Some of those attacks could well have been categorized as crimes of war.
Others are certainly extrajudicial killings—or, simply put, outright murders. Those deaths and so many others can be traced back to“It’s filthy dirty, disgusting dirty,” Trump said of Somalia, but in truth, that’s a more apt description for the soul of the country that exports slaughter, year after year, and is led by a man who revels in it.
“It’s a horrible place,” he continued about Somalia. Democrats Shut Out of Briefing on Trump 'Murder Spree' in International Waters ›Nick Turse is the Managing Editor of TomDispatch.com and a fellow at the Type Media Center. His latest book is"Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan" .
He is the author/editor of several other books, including:"Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa" ;"Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" ; "The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyber Warfare" ;"The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives" ; and"The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan" . Turse was a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute. His website is www. Nick Turse.com.
As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. US troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H. W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor,troops had begun attacking various targets in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, linked to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had helped overthrow dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.in that city where a group of Somali clan leaders was meeting.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said 54 people were killed and 161 wounded. Aidid claimed that 73 Somalis had died,Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from And it wasn’t long before—in the early 2000s, under Bush’s son, George W., as part of what became known as the Global War on Terror—American troops began slaughtering Somalis again.
In addition to major conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush, the younger, launched early drone wars fromHowever, for all those years of slaughter in Somalia, no American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald J. Trump, especially in his second term in office.. Obama presided over 48 strikes during his eight years in office that killed as many as 553 people. Trump’s first term saw a massive escalation in such drone strikes.
Over his first four years, Trump carried out 219 attacks, a 271% increase over the 16 years of theand Obama presidencies. But even that spike has paled in comparison to the relentless rate of attacks during Trump’s second term in office. While Biden exceeded Obama’s total in half the time—51 strikes in four years—Trump is already set to eclipse his own infamous first-term record in less than a year and a half.
He has presided over at least 190, if not more, air strikes in Somalia. Trump’s killing spree in Somalia is just a small part of his wider war on the world. It’s no exaggeration to say that he has the“run around shooting” people on an epic scale.
During his two terms in office, Trump has overseen armed interventions and military operations—including air strikes, commando raids, proxy conflicts, so-called 127e programs, and full-scale wars—inin the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. His second term has, in fact, been a furious blitz of global war making, only half noticed by the American news media. In March, for example, the, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America.
During that span, the US also struck a civilian boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Less than a year and a half into Trump’s second term, the US has already killed more than 2,000 civilians from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.
“This is unprecedented in terms of the sheer number of theaters where harm to civilians has been reported within such a short space of time,”Since the US began conducting air strikes in Somalia back in 2007, as many as 170 civilians have been killed,. The US military has, however, only admitted to six of those deaths and 11 other injuries—and has never publicly apologized to any families of the victims or those who survived its attacks.
In one April 2018 attack in Somalia during Trump’s first term, a US drone strike killed at least three civilians. A woman and child were among the dead, according to formerly secret US military investigation documents, but the same report concluded that their identities might never be known. A 2023 investigation I undertook for The Intercept, however, exposed the details of that disastrous attack.
The woman and child—22-year-old—survived the initial strike but were killed by a double-tap attack as they fled for their lives. Abdi Dahir Mohamed, one of Luul’s brothers, said of the Americans who killed his sister and niece: “They know innocent people were killed, but they’ve never told us a reason or apologized. No one has been held accountable. ”in his war of choice in Iran.
“US-Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 2,362 civilians, including 383 children, and injured over 32,314 civilians, according to official figures,” Raha Bahreini, a regional researcher with Amnesty International’s Iran Team, told this reporter and other journalists during a recent press briefing. The deaths include more than 150 children killed in a Tomahawk missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in southern Iran. The preliminary findings of a US militarycontinues to evade responsibility.
“This incident is currently under investigation,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently told lawmakers, refusing to answer questions about the attack during testimony on Capitol Hill. Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and US military and independent estimates of The administration has also been responsible for a steady drumbeat of attacks on civilians in the waters surrounding Latin America.
Under Operation Southern Spear, theare members of one of at least 24 or more cartels and criminal gangs with whom it claims to be at war butkilled in an attack on an immigrant detention center there last year.
“The Trump administration’s Yemen campaign, and this attack in particular, should have set off alarm bells for anyone invested in how the US military operates, and the amount of care or disdain it shows for civilian life,” Kristine Beckerle, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said recently. “One year on, not only has there been no discernible progress towards justice and reparation, but we’re still lacking basic information about what happened in the Yemen attack, why it happened and what steps if any the US military has taken to address it.
”by US airstrikes during the Trump administration’s campaign of air and naval strikes against that country’s Houthi government. TheSuch deaths are just part of a long butcher’s bill in Yemen stretching back to the very beginning of Trump’s first term. A report by the Yemen-based group Mwatana forexamined 12 US attacks in Yemen between January 2017 and January 2019, 10 of them “counterterrorism airstrikes.
” The authors found that at least 38 Yemeni civilians—19 men, six women, and 13 children—were killed and seven others injured in the attacks. Among them was aon a Yemeni village just days after Trump took office for the first time in which women and children died. A year later, the US fired a missile into a sports utility vehicle near the village of Al Uqla. Three of the men inside were killed instantly.
Another died days later in a local hospital. The only survivor,“The Attack Was Horrible and Their Response Was Horrible. I Lost a Wife and a Child” “It’s a horrible place,” Trump said of Somalia during that same racist rant.
“Everything is horrible over there. ” The US attack that killed the mother and daughter was the product of faulty intelligence as well as rushed, imprecise targeting by a Special Operations strike cell whose members, according to the military investigation conducted later, considered themselves inexperienced. That inquiry led to an admission that civilians were killed and a strong suggestion of confirmation bias .
Despite that, the investigation exonerated the team involved. To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia.
“The strike complied with the applicable rules of engagement,” according to that investigation. “othing in the strike procedures caused this inaccurate call. ” Luul’s husband and Mariam’s father, Shilow Muse Ali, was stunned as he tried to process those words.
“The attack was horrible and their response was horrible. I lost a wife and a child,” he told me.
“But I cannot understand the explanation in the investigation. How can you admit that you killed two civilians and also say the rules were followed? ”.
“The burden of proof as to who could be targeted and for what reason changed dramatically,” retired Brigadier General Donald Bolduc, who led Special Operations Command Africa at the time,, by contrast, strikes required high-level approval, according to a drone pilot and strike cell analyst, who served in Somalia the year Luul and Mariam were killed. “Giving strike authority down to a ground commander was a massive difference,” he explained. “It had a big effect.
” Attacks in Somalia tripled after Trump once again relaxed targeting principles and To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the deaths of Luul or Mariam—or any other civilians killed in Trump’s war in Somalia. Nor has anyone been held responsible for those killed in the strike in Yemen that gravely wounded. Or those slain in the raid on a Yemeni village by Navy SEALs.
Or the innocents who died in the attack on an immigrant detention center in that country. Or in the strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean Sea. Or for the attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Iran. Some of those attacks could well have been categorized as crimes of war.
Others are certainly extrajudicial killings—or, simply put, outright murders. Those deaths and so many others can be traced back to“It’s filthy dirty, disgusting dirty,” Trump said of Somalia, but in truth, that’s a more apt description for the soul of the country that exports slaughter, year after year, and is led by a man who revels in it.
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