Al-Majalah camp attack

Al-Majalah camp attack
Part of the al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
TypeAirstrike
Location
13°58′19″N 46°27′43″E / 13.972°N 46.462°E / 13.972; 46.462
TargetAQAP (U.S. claim)
Date17 December 2009 (2009-12-17)
Executed byUnited States Joint Special Operations Command
Casualties55 (including 14 women and 21 children) killed
al-Majalah is located in Yemen
al-Majalah
al-Majalah
Location of al-Majalah within Yemen

The al-Majalah camp attack also referred to as the al-Majalah massacre[1] occurred on December 17, 2009 when the United States military launched Tomahawk cruise missiles from a ship off the Yemeni coast on a Bedouin camp in the southern village of Al-Maʽjalah in Yemen, killing 14 alleged Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and 41 civilians,[2][3][4][5][6] including 14 women and 23 children.

  1. ^ Scahill, Jeremy (2013-06-04). Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield Enhanced Edition for Nook. PublicAffairs. pp. 303–312. ISBN 9781568584843.
  2. ^ Filkins, Dexter (6 February 2013). "What We Don't Know About Drones". The New Yorker. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  3. ^ "US: Reassess Targeted Killings in Yemen". Human Rights Watch. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Yemen drones strikes cause civilians to 'fear the US as much as al-Qaeda'". The Daily Telegraph. London. October 22, 2013.
  5. ^ Hugh MacLeod and Nasser Arrabyee (January 3, 2010). "Yemeni air attacks on al-Qaida fighters risk mobilising hostile tribes". The Guardian. London.
  6. ^ Raghavan, Sudarsan (2009-12-18). "Yemen asserts 34 rebels killed in raid on Qaeda". The Washington Post. The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-01-27.