{"id":291234,"date":"2016-09-16T08:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=291234"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:36:22","slug":"us-to-pay-1-2m-to-italian-family-of-drone-strike-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/us-to-pay-1-2m-to-italian-family-of-drone-strike-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"US to pay \u2018$1.2m\u2019 to Italian family of drone strike victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>So, money paid to the families of the US or Europeans killed by drones\u2026 but nothing for the innocent Arabic people also killed as \u201ccollateral damages\u201d: pure racism!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The US government has agreed to pay \u20ac1.1m ($1.2m; \u00a3934,000) to the family of an Italian aid worker killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, reports say.<\/p>\n<p>Aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto, 37, was killed while being held hostage by al-Qaeda in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>US aid worker Warren Weinstein, 73, being held with him also died in the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has confirmed that payments were made to both families, without releasing details.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama admitted the deaths in April last year, saying that he profoundly regretted them. It was announced that compensation would be paid to the families.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said at the time that the operation had targeted an al-Qaeda compound in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that they had believed there were no civilians present.<\/p>\n<p>But according to\u00a0La Repubblica newspaper\u00a0(in Italian) and\u00a0the Guardian newspaper, the agreement states that Mr Lo Porto was killed inside Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37385989\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37385989<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: So, money paid to the families of the US or Europeans killed by drones\u2026 but nothing for the innocent Arabic people also killed as \u201ccollateral damages\u201d: pure racism! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":291235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}