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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US military has been quietly eliminating terrorist leaders in <keyword id="6354913" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="syria">Syria</keyword> with the Hellfire AGM-114R9X, a non-explosive <keyword id="3136130" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hellfire-missile">Hellfire missile</keyword> that kills its enemies by crushing them with 100 pounds of metal or by cutting them apart with the swords stored inside.</li><li>The most recent strike, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/missiles-al-qaeda-syria.html">according to The New York Times</a>, was about two weeks ago and eliminated a senior attack planner for al Qaeda.</li><li>The <keyword id="9534118" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="r9x">R9X</keyword>, a weapon designed to reduce civilian casualties, first became public knowledge when The Wall Street Journal reported its existence in May 2019, but its development began years earlier.</li></ul>The US military has been quietly taking out terrorist leaders in Syria with a modified Hellfire missile packed full of swords, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/missiles-al-qaeda-syria.html">The New York Times reported Friday.</a>Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Thursday, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Christopher Miller revealed that in Syria, "Hurras al-Din — a group made up of several al Qaeda veterans — has suffered successive losses of key leaders and operatives."And, the secretive Hellfire AGM-114R9X missile, a US weapon typically referred to as the R9X, reportedly played a role in some of those losses.On Sept. 14, a US Reaper drone operated by special operations forces killed Sayyaf al-Tunsi, a senior attack planner for al Qaeda and its affiliates, with an R9X, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/missiles-al-qaeda-syria.html">The New York Times reported</a>, citing US military and counterterrorism officials, who said that the hit would disrupt Hurras al-Din operations.Following an R9X strike in June believed to have killed two Hurras al-Din members, the most recent strike marks at least the second time in three months the weapon has been used.The R9X, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/missiles-al-qaeda-syria.html">The Times reports</a>, has proven useful for targeting terrorist leaders in urban areas, where they assume the US is more hesistant to engage due to the heightened risk of civilian casualties.The so-called "Ninja Bomb" or "Flying Ginsu," a modified Hellfire equipped with a non-explosive warhead that kills enemies with 100 pounds of metal, sheer force, and six blades, first became public knowledge when <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411">The Wall Street Journal reported its existence</a> in May 2019.The weapon's development began during the Obama administration as an airstrike armament less likely to kill civilians than other battlefield options.At the time of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411">The Wall Street Journal report</a>, it was believed that the US had used the weapon only about half a dozen times.It is suspected to have been used to kill Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masri, a top al Qaeda leader, in Syria in February 2017 and Jamel Ahmed Mohammed Ali al-Badawi, the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the deadly bombing of the USS Cole, in Yemen in February 2019.There have been several other suspected R9X strikes since then.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/us/politics/missiles-al-qaeda-syria.html">The New York Times reports</a> that while explosive Hellfire missiles are preferred for groups of terrorist targets, the non-explosive R9X is the "weapon of choice" for eliminating leaders and other high-value targets who are traveling alone.

The US military is quietly killing terrorist leaders in Syria with its secret missile packed with swords

<div type="image" title="MQ-9 Reaper drone New York Air National Guard 174th Attack Wing" height="700" width="1399" msid="76840386" hostid="261"></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The US has started using the <keyword id="9534118" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="r9x">R9X</keyword> missile, which is packed with blades, against targets in the ongoing <keyword id="43097" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="War-on-terror">war on terror</keyword>.</li><li>The R9X represents an innovation, as its blades allow it to have lethal effect within a limited area and avoid the damage caused by a normal explosion.</li><li>But a focus on the technology can often divert attention from the rationale behind its use and the war in which it's being used, writes defense journalist Kelsey Atherton.</li></ul>The United States cannot engineer its way out of the so-called "War on Terror."With the 2001 AUMF just months away from its 19th birthday, the endless and shifting wars it has authorized, from the ground in Afghanistan to the skies above Yemen, continue largely unchecked. It is all but certain that the wars will continue into the spring of 2021, spanning at least six presidential terms and possibly a fourth presidency.It is this durability of the present condition, of the persistent war, that <a href="https://twitter.com/EricSchmittNYT/status/1275944393208401924">makes stories</a> about the R9X "<keyword id="9534119" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sword-missile">sword missile</keyword>" so compelling. If the war is unchanging, then at least there is news in how the war is fought. And that news is the existence of a drone-fired missile that kills, not with explosives, but with blades.To describe the R9X missile honestly is to step into a Verhoevian satire of war reporting.<div type="image" title="Hellfire (2)" height="890" width="1240" msid="76840387" hostid="261"></div>The R9X is a variant on the Hellfire anti-tank missile. It is a machine that creates "kinetic effects" by releasing blades before it impacts a body, instead of the traditional mess of an explosion. This enables it, in theory if not always in execution, to puncture the roof of a car while spinning, blades out, pureeing a human being in the passenger seat while potentially leaving the driver intact, save for the life-long trauma from the experience.As specifically formulated, the R9X is a harm-reduction tool. It is a weapon at the pointy, deadly end of a targeted kill chain, but because it uses blades and impact force instead of a car-scattering explosion, it produces less collateral damage than a conventional explosion.That construct, that series of "would you like to know more?" factoids, tells the story of the Forever War, but it mostly tells it by omission. What a weapon does in use is only part of a much longer story, about why the weapon was developed, about the way people are using it, and about the political considerations that fostered both the conflict and the development of the weapon itself.When The Wall Street Journal first reported on the R9X <keyword id="29709" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="sword">sword</keyword> missile in 2019, it <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411">noted</a> that "the missile was born of an emphasis, under former President Obama, on avoiding civilian deaths in long U.S. campaign of airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and other locales."As reported at the time, this reduction in civilian casualties was built into the larger rationale of counter-insurgency operations, where civilian casualties undermine support within and outside countries for the continuation of the war. But the weapon followed another logic, which is that the groups targeted by the United States adapted to the threat of aerial assassination by hiding in crowds of civilians, forcing the human gunners remotely operating drones to decide if the kill was worth the subsequent tragedy and outcry.A weapon that can kill people in one car, without threatening people in the area around the car, provides a temporary workaround, until the tactics of the insurgents targeted change again.When The New York Times discovered the R9X in a story published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/world/middleeast/syria-qaeda-r9x-hellfire-missile.html">June 24</a>, it put the blade missile in the context of an overall approach aimed at minimized deaths and injuries, saying "the use of this type of missile falls in line with the American military's push to use smaller munitions to kill targets, made apparent during the recent air campaigns against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in an effort to avoid civilian casualties."<div type="image" title="workers load a Hellfire missile onto a U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), at a secret air base in the Persian Gulf" height="698" width="1024" msid="76840389" hostid="261"></div>Missing from this assessment is both the recent and the long history of how the "War on Terror" has been fought from the sky.The defining feature of the targeted killing campaign, across administrations, has been <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-killings-count/">opacity</a>. To the extent that there has been any transparency, it exists in brief windows: A brief voluntary push by the Obama administration in 2016 to disclose more details about airstrikes, and after 2018, modest transparency mandated by Congress.The same Pentagon that argued for the sword missile as part of a smaller munitions push also made "lethality" the centerpiece of its mission and acquisitions programs as the Trump administration took office.A focus on the specific tools of the "War on Terror" misses the larger question lurking behind the tech: toggling the size of the bombs, or the kinds of missiles used, is largely irrelevant to the continuation of the forever war, or its end.Focusing on the missile specifically misses everything that puts a missile in the sky, ready to be used against a human being. It constrains the moral debate to one about relative collateral damage within a targeted killing program, instead of questioning the accuracy of the intelligence that informs the targeting in the first place. It concedes that the practice, now in its third decade, of remotely operating drones with cameras and weapons attached is a way of providing security for anybody.Technology is undeniably a key part of the story, but a narrow focus on the technology makes the coverage a kind of anti-news, as it merely rehashes the assumptions baked into years of war.If there is a story to tell with a weapon like the sword missile, it is this: the political will exists to repeatedly design new weapons to continue the same war. What is missing in the halls of power, even if it's present in the general public, is the will to accept that new weapons will not suddenly make the wars winnable.Kelsey D. Atherton is a defense technology journalist based in Albuquerque. His work has appeared in Popular Science, Breaking Defense, and The New York Times.

A missile packed with swords won't end the US's war on terror

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The missiles that killed Al Qaeda's leader were likely a secret variant, per media reports.</li><li>Little is known about the Hellfire R9X missile, which is designed to kill without explosives.</li></ul>The two Hellfire missiles that killed the leader of Al Qaeda in a drone strike last weekend were likely a secretive variant that deploys blades instead of explosive warheads to minimize civilian casualties.<a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3114362/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaida-leader-in-kabul/">The Department of Defense said</a> that Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helped plan the 9/11 attacks, was killed by two Hellfire missiles in a safehouse at 6:18 a.m. on Sunday. Officials described the killing as a "precision, counterterrorism operation."The Egypt-born al-Zawahiri was hiding in downtown Kabul with his family, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-announces-al-qaeda-leader-killed-in-afghanistan-drone-strike-2022-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">President Joe Biden said</a> in a Monday speech, adding that no civilians or family members had been killed.A senior administration official said in the Department of Defense's statement: "We are confident through our intelligence sources and methods — including multiple streams of intelligence — that we killed Zawahiri and no other individuals."Online photos of the building in which al-Zawahiri was housed showed its windows smashed but its structure intact — suggesting that no powerful explosion had taken place.US authorities have not confirmed what type of Hellfire missiles was deployed in the operation. However, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/little-known-modified-hellfire-likely-killed-al-qaedas-zawahiri-2022-08-02/">multiple</a> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hellfire-missiles-ayman-al-zawahiri-dead-kabul-balcony/">media</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hellfire-r9x-al-zawahri-d0d25b7ed4059750b4add024322fe17c">reports</a> said it's likely that the Hellfire R9X variant was used because of the minimal collateral damage caused, citing defense experts and <a href="https://twitter.com/Charles_Lister/status/1554237650973884416">social media images</a> of the aftermath. According to <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2021/08/26/the-telltale-traces-of-the-us-militarys-new-bladed-missile-r9x/">open-source intelligence organization Bellingcat</a>, the R9X is an air-to-ground missile that destroys its targets using its kinetic energy and six blades, which deploy just seconds before impact.Much about the missile variant is shrouded in secrecy and there are no available public images of what it looks like before it's been fired.<div type="image" title="An illustration of the Hellfire R9X missile." height="474" width="612" msid="93345367" hostid="261"></div>The lack of explosives in the R9X reduces its area of effect, making it effective at killing individual targets while reducing the chances of civilian fatalities, per Bellingcat.The R9X is suspected to have been used in the 2017 US assassination of <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/27/middleeast/deputy-al-qaeda-leader-killed/">Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, Qaeda's deputy leader, in Syria.</a> Images on social media showed that the roof of al-Masri's car was shredded open on the passenger's side but that the engine suffered no damage, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-qaeda-abu-al-khayr-al-masri-reportedly-killed-airstrike-idlib-syria/">according to CBS.</a>Another attack in which the R9X may have been used was a 2020 US drone strike in Syria that killed three men, per Bellingcat.Photos that circulated online in the aftermath showed a truck with a hole punched in its roof. The driver's cab was destroyed but the rear of the vehicle seemed relatively unscathed.Bellingcat said the blades of the R9X appear to fragment on impact, which could explain why no completed blades have been found at attack sites.Sunday's precision strike came nearly a year after the US <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-drone-strike-targeted-aid-worker-killing-10-afghan-civilians-2021-9">mistakenly targeted</a> an aid worker in Kabul with a drone strike, thinking he was an ISIS-K militant. The August 29 attack used a 20-pound Hellfire missile variant that killed 10 people, including seven children.

The missiles that killed Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri were likely a secret variant that uses sharp blades, not explosives, to take out targets

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a precision airstrike this month.</li><li>The circumstances of the strike suggest the US used the R9X variant of its Hellfire missile.</li></ul>The US killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda and a deputy of the late Osama bin Laden, in a <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3114362/us-drone-strike-kills-al-qaida-leader-in-kabul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">precision airstrike</a> earlier this month.One of the most wanted terrorists in the world, al-Zawahiri was killed as he stood on a balcony of a house in Kabul. The early morning strike was conducted by a drone that fired two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.Unlike past drone strikes in Afghanistan, including one in the final days of the US withdrawal last year, this strike is believed to have only killed its intended target and caused little collateral damage — suggesting that the CIA-led attack made use of one of the most secretive weapons in the US arsenal.<h2>The AGM-114 R9X Hellfire missile</h2><div type="image" title="Sherpur area of Kabul afghanistan" height="1332" width="2000" msid="93416702" hostid="261" sizebytes="348472"></div>Developed in an attempt to reduce collateral damage and civilian casualties, the R9X Hellfire missile is probably one of the most, if not the most, precise munitions of its kind in the world.While other versions of the Hellfire take out targets in the expected ways — through explosive force or with shrapnel — the R9X crushes or slices a target to death. It is essentially a flying bundle of swords that can kill the occupant of a car without harming people around the vehicle.The missile itself is about 6 feet long and 100 pounds with six 18-inch blades that pop out of its midsection seconds before impact. Propelled by the missile, they can slice through most anything in their path and have a reported kill radius of 3 feet.Precision drone strikes are nothing new in the US-led war on terror. Since 2001, US leaders have turned to unmanned aerial systems to monitor, track, and take out terrorists all over the world.<div type="image" title="In this undated photo, Ayman al-Zawahiri (R) sits next to Osama bin Laden (L)." height="2249" width="3000" msid="93416703" hostid="261" sizebytes="324580"></div>The heavy reliance on drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere led to increased civilian casualties. That, along with terrorists' attempts to surround themselves with civilians to avoid US airstrikes, prompted development of the R9X during the Obama administration, according to US officials who revealed the munition's existence to <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fsecret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> in 2019.The US military has used the AGM-114 Hellfire for decades. Several variants tailored to different operational circumstances have been developed and become some of the most frequently used precision-guided munitions. In 2015 alone, units assigned to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-socom-learned-in-afghanistan-means-for-future-fights-2021-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US Special Operations Command</a> fired more than <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31409/everything-we-know-about-americas-sword-blade-hellfire-missile-and-its-latest-target" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1,000 Hellfire missiles</a> of all variants, primarily against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria.The R9X variant is reserved for the most important and hardest-to-reach targets and doesn't appear to be used often.Some prominent cases of its employment include a 2019 strike in Yemen against Jamal al-Badawi, an Al Qaeda terrorist behind the USS Cole bombing in 2000; a 2017 strike in Syria against Ahmad Hasan Abu Khayr al-Masri, deputy leader of Al Qaeda; and a 2020 strike in Syria against Sayyaf al-Tunsi, a senior Al Qaeda member.<h2>R9X Hellfire for special operators</h2><div type="image" title="MQ-1 Predator drone AGM-114 Hellfire missile" height="753" width="1004" msid="93416704" hostid="261" sizebytes="28930"></div>The strike on al-Zawahiri was carried out <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ayman-al-zawahri-al-qaida-terrorism-biden-36e5f10256c9bc9972b252849eda91f2" target="_top">by the CIA</a>, but the US intelligence community isn't the only one using the R9X.US Special Operations Command is "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/little-known-modified-hellfire-likely-killed-al-qaedas-zawahiri-2022-08-02/" target="_top">the prime purchaser</a>" of the missile, the Pentagon says. SOCOM and the secretive unit within it, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jsoc-special-mission-units-delta-devgru-24th-sts-and-isa-2022-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joint Special Operations Command</a>, have used the missile several times in the past to take out high-value targets across the Middle East.The US special-operations community as a whole invested heavily in aerial drones after seeing early in the war on terror that they offer immense utility and flexibility to commanders. Today, all special-operations units use drones of all sizes.The strike on al-Zawahiri was reportedly conducted with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/ayman-al-zawahiri-how-us-killed-al-qaida-leader" target="_top">an MQ-9 Reaper</a>, a newer, heavier version of the MQ-1 Predator. Another Predator variant, the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, remains in use with the "Night Stalkers" of the US Army's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-armys-160-soar-night-stalkers-special-operations-pilots-2020-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment</a>.

How SOCOM's secret 'knife bomb' became the prime weapon for killing hard-to-reach terrorists

John Moore/Getty Imagesworkers load a Hellfire missile onto a U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle at a secret air base in the Persian Gulf.<ul class="summary-list"><li>One, if not two, suspected terrorists in northwestern Syria were killed in an unusual airstrike, according to multiple reports.</li><li>The target's minivan was reportedly struck by a munition that didn't explode but rather killed the vehicle's passengers by mashing and mincing everything in its path.</li><li>The suspects are believed to have been eliminated by the AGM-114R9X, a US-made Hellfire variant that relies on force and six extendable blades to take out targets with greater precision and reduce civilian casualties.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>A suspected terrorist in Syria was reportedly killed with a rare US missile packed with swords, <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31297/another-syrian-terrorist-seemingly-killed-by-hellfire-missile-with-pop-out-sword-blades">according</a> to multiple reports.A minivan driving through Atmeh in Syria's Idlib province was reportedly struck by the munition, apparently killing two individuals inside, one or both of which are said to have been tied to the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS).The main target is believed to have been a trainer for an elite HTS unit known as "The Red Bands," The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/04/us-forces-kill-jihadist-leader-syria-precision-ninja-missile/">reported</a>.The weapon that shredded the car did not explode. While the driver's side was torn apart, the vehicle was actually mostly intact.A graphic video of the bloodstained interior of the car, a Mitsubishi Delica, showed a hole in the driver's seat and several deep cuts, the suspected result a rare munition filled with blades that minced and mashed the vehicle's passengers.A review of fragments reportedly found at the site of the strike appears to indicate that the airstrike involved the AGM-114R9X, a modified Hellfire known as the "Flying Ginsu" and the "Ninja Bomb" because it relies solely on force and six extendable blades stored inside, rather than explosives, to eliminate targets.The deadly precision weapon was, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411">according</a> to report from the Wall Street Journal in May, designed by the US to reduce civilian casualties. The Journal noted that the R9X has been used covertly, albeit rarely, against targets in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere since 2017.The War Zone <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31297/another-syrian-terrorist-seemingly-killed-by-hellfire-missile-with-pop-out-sword-blades">observed</a> that the reported strike in Syria is noticeably similar to the one that killed Abu Khayr Al Masri, a senior al Qaeda leader, in Al Mastouma, Syria in 2017, which was confirmed to be the work of the R9X Hellfire variant. <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/secret-service-boot-camp-training-academy-president-security-2019-11">We went inside Secret Service boot camp where recruits get top secret training for their 'zero-fail mission'</a></h3>

The US is suspected of killing a terrorist in Syria with the 'Ninja Bomb,' a rare US missile packed with swords

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>The US has developed a secret weapon designed to eliminate terrorists without injuring/killing nearby civilians, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411">reported</a> Thursday.</li><li>The R9X missile is a modified Hellfire used by the Pentagon and the CIA for pinpoint strikes. If the sheer force of the missile fails to take out the target, the six long blades will finish the task.</li><li>The missile, known as "The Flying Ginsu" and "The Ninja Bomb," has been used in operations in at least five countries.</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit INSIDER's&#xa0;homepage for more stories</a>.&#xa0;</li></ul>The US has developed a secret missile to kill terrorists in precision strikes without harming civilians nearby, and it's already proven its worth in the field, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/secret-u-s-missile-aims-to-kill-only-terrorists-not-nearby-civilians-11557403411?mod=hp_lead_pos4">reported</a> Thursday, citing over a dozen current and former US officials.The R9X is a modified version of the Hellfire missile. Instead of exploding, the weapon uses sheer force to kill its target. "To the targeted person, it is as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky," the WSJ wrote.What makes the weapon especially deadly is that it carries six long blades that extend outward just before impact, shredding anything in its path. The R9X is nicknamed "The Flying Ginsu," a reference to a type of high-quality chef's knife.The missile, which can tear through cars and buildings, is also called "the Ninja Bomb."&#xa0;Development reportedly began in 2011 as an attempt to reduce civilian casualties in the war on terror, especially as extremists regularly used non-combatants as human shields. A conventional missile like the Hellfire explodes, creating a deadly blast radius and turning objects into lethal shrapnel. That's why it's suitable for destroying vehicles or killing a number of enemy combatants who are in close proximity, while the R9X is best for targeting individuals.The weapon is "for the express purpose of reducing civilian casualties," one official told reporters.The US military has used the weapon only a few times, officials told The WSJ, revealing that this missile has been used in operations in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. For example, the RX9 was used to kill Jamal al-Badawi, accused of masterminding the US Cole bombing in 2000, in January.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-airstrike-reportedly-kills-terrorist-behind-uss-cole-bombing-2019-1">Trump confirms the US military has killed the terror mastermind behind the deadly USS Cole bombing that ended the lives of 17 American sailors</a>While the Obama administration emphasized the need to reduce civilian casualties, the Trump administration appears to have made this less of a priority. In March, President Trump <a href="http://time.com/5546366/trump-cancels-drone-strike-rule/">rolled back</a> an Obama-era transparency initiative that required public reports on the number of civilians killed in drone strikes.Officials told the WSJ that highlighting the new missile's existence, something they argue should have been done a long time ago, shows that the US is committed to reducing civilian casualties.<div></div>

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