Yemen – On a road flanked by mountains and dusty plains, sixth-grader Mohammed Taeiman was travelling with a family friend to the Hareeb region of Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa, when the car was targeted in a drone strike.
It wasn’t long before the news broke out locally.
The younger Taeiman had been killed in a CIA drone strike, the first since the prime minister and president resigned amid a standoff with the Houthi rebels on January 26.
When Mikdad Taeiman, Mohammed’s older brother, saw the charred black Suzuki Vitara, he knew his brother was inside. By then, pictures of the incident were circulating on mobile phones.
“My brother was going to school. He was a good student. He knew nothing,” said the older brother, vehemently denying suggestions that his brother was involved with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
On hearing the news, Mahla Aamer Saila, Mohammed’s mother, fainted, and was taken to hospital. She blamed the president and the minister of defence for “cooperating with America”.
Mohammed’s father and older brother were killed in a drone strike in 2011. A third brother was wounded in another drone attack
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