Indeed, if the US never acknowledges the specific strikes, how can ordinary Americans possibly know that Rasilah al Faqih, a pregnant Yemeni woman, was killed in Walad Rabei , along with her husband and ten year old daughter, as they headed home from a visit to the doctor? Or that Abdoh Mohammed al Jarraah s house in Silat al Jarraah had 19 people, including women and children, inside when it was hit by a US drone strike?