Why U.S. Bombs Are Falling in Yemen
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, the killing of Jamal Kashoggi has re-ignited criticism of the Saudi Kingdom more broadly, |
| 0:18.0 | including its role in the war in Yemen, a war that has become the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. |
| 0:27.0 | And a war that the United States has back from the beginning. |
| 0:40.0 | It's Tuesday, November 20. |
| 0:45.0 | In the middle of September, I arrived in the town of Dahyan, which is in the far northwest of Yemen. |
| 0:52.0 | It's a farming town. It's a very simple place. And we arrived there early in the morning. |
| 0:57.0 | And the main street of this town is not paved. It's just a dirt road, essentially. |
| 1:02.0 | And soon after we arrived in the town, I saw that on the side of the road was a big crater. |
| 1:11.0 | It was marked out with some wooden sticks and red traffic tape. |
| 1:16.0 | And after we get out of the car and walked around, I discovered there were people doing a little parade, |
| 1:22.0 | which was the commemoration of what had happened there six weeks earlier. |
| 1:26.0 | And what had happened there? |
| 1:28.0 | This was where a bomb had struck a school bus full of children. |
| 1:34.0 | In August, killing almost everyone on board, the 44 children killed, and 10 adults. |
| 1:41.0 | And just over a low stone wall was the wreckage of the school bus, which was twisted into an almost unrecognizable mass of a black and metal. |
| 1:51.0 | Just beyond the crater where the bomb had struck was written in color on a wall in both English and Arabic, America kills Yemeni children. |
| 2:02.0 | And this is something you find all over Yemen that when there's a major airstrike, there will be bomb fragments found. |
| 2:08.0 | And usually they have serial numbers or other markings that identify them. |
| 2:11.0 | And in this case, the markings make clear that it was an American made bomb. |
| 2:26.0 | What is a US missile doing in Yemen? |
| 2:30.0 | Yeah, the answer to that is a little complicated. |
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