US warns of retaliation following cleric’s killing. Clearly, Obama’s assassination has made us safer. But we should still be afraid. Due process and justice? No time left for that, we’re under attack… because there’s no time left for that…
An AP story on the NYT web site opens with this: Four suspected U.S. missiles slammed into a house in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing six people in an area near the Afghan border teeming with local and foreign militants, intelligence officials said.
That sentence is a mess for several reasons.
The following sentence:
The strike, which was carried out by at least one unmanned aircraft, was part of the Obama administration’s rising campaign to use drones to target militants who regularly stage cross-border attacks against foreign troops in Afghanistan.
If that is so certain — and I believe it — why does the author feel compelled to says “suspected U.S. missiles” in the previous statement?