Sentence examples for mistaken target from inspiring English sources
"Iraq was a false target, a mistaken target.
Some believe she was a mistaken target, having witnessed agents in action.
A strike at a mistaken target or an errant missile will not be much of a deterrent.
The embassy was located at this mistaken target, and three Chinese journalists were killed.
Only after the agents had herded her other children into the living room, frightened her aunt and uncle, and drawn a gun on a family friend staying in the basement, Ms. Delarosa-Delgado said, did she awake to discover that her house in Huntington Station had been the mistaken target of a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
From its inception, the drone program has been troubled by reports of mistaken targeting.
Its audiences – many of whom have served as as soldiers, generals, drone pilots and Navy Seals – have also experienced horrors: friends killed, assaults on mistaken targets.
Between June 2007 and mid-March 2008 at least 170 Palestinian civilians were killed, 70 of them children, as unlucky bystanders or mistaken targets of what Israeli military jargon breezily calls "targeted elimination".
Holder and other Obama Administration legal hands have told Congress that they are convinced, after repeated reviews of classified evidence about targeted terrorism suspects, that the Obama Administration's secret process for placing Al Qaeda leaders and operatives on death lists is careful, legal, and sound even though a number of cases of mistaken targeting have been documented publicly.
Holder and other Obama Administration legal hands have told Congress that they are convinced, after repeated reviews of classified evidence about targeted terrorism suspects, that the Obama Administration's secret process for placing Al Qaeda leaders and operatives on death lists is careful, legal, and sound — even though a number of cases of mistaken targeting have been documented publicly.
The film interviews at length members of an Afghan extended family attacked from the air in a case of mistaken targeting even the Department of Defense now acknowledges.
