Sentence examples for mistaken targets from inspiring English sources

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".

Meeting Rosencrantz again, Ashley is told that they were not his family, but mistaken targets he killed during a mission of theirs.

"Iraq was a false target, a mistaken target.

Some believe she was a mistaken target, having witnessed agents in action.

From its inception, the drone program has been troubled by reports of mistaken targeting.

A strike at a mistaken target or an errant missile will not be much of a deterrent.

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 embassy was located at this mistaken target, and three Chinese journalists were killed.

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.