In every incident recorded in this report, the families of Yemeni civilians killed in US strikes want to know why they were targeted. As the father of Nasser Mohammed Nasser, one of four innocent civilians killed in a US drone strike on April 19, 2014, lamented: “My son and those who were with him had nothing to do with Al Qaeda.
但是，尽管美国政府一直对无人机袭击保持沉默在国内或许有帮助，但在也门和其他地区，这释放了一个危险信号。希拉特贾拉哈的一位村民莫贝尔·阿卜杜拉·阿里·贾拉哈（Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah）说：“我认为美国拿我们贫穷村庄试验它的致命发明，因为它不能在其他任何人命很值钱的地方进行试验。在这里，我们的命毫无价值。”