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Pentagon Finds No One at Fault for 2018 Drone Strike that Killed Somali Woman and Child / Nick Turse

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🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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The Intercept's Nick Turse joins This Is Hell! to discuss his just-published report, "Civilian Harm Secret Pentagon Investigation Found No One at Fault in Drone Strike That Killed Woman and 4-Year-Old." In the undeclared drone war, nobody is accountable. Check out Nick's report here: https://theintercept.com/2023/11/12/somalia-drone-strike-civilian-deaths/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

You're going to see. rather than Rather serendipitous.

0:27.0

Oh, you're welcome, Neil.

0:30.0

Oh, you're welcome Neil. This is hell.

0:53.0

I have something in my eye and it won't come out.

0:58.0

Staring into the abyss so you don't have...

1:01.0

If you have some sort of eye drops on you, sure.

1:04.0

I don't want you to do any surgery on me.

1:08.0

Staring into the abyss so you don't have to.

1:11.0

This is hell.

1:13.5

Is there any more of a bottomless pit than the cover-ups of atrocities committed by

1:17.6

militaries and governments all over the world?

1:20.6

Because that's what we are talking about today.

1:23.4

Early on in the presidency of Donald J. Trump, his administration worked with military leaders

1:28.6

to circumvent the United States Congress in order to declare war.

1:33.2

In doing so, they launched what for all intents and purposes was a war in Somalia.

1:38.8

The war was being conducted in a way that did not employ all the checks and balances that had been used in an attempt to

1:44.2

limit civilian deaths during the Obama administration.

1:49.0

Now an investigation has shown that not only were a woman and her child killed after escaping the

1:55.0

original drone attack on the vehicle within which they were traveling.

1:58.4

But some five years after the events came to light, the U.S. has done nothing to compensate the victim's

2:05.1

families for their loss. In a few minutes we will have the return of writer,

2:10.4

author, and journalist Nick Tertz, Nick T, T-U-R-S-E, Nick Turs.

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