Latif Nasser

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Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krulwich.

This is Radio Lab.

And today – Well, we're still on the subject of Worth, but this is a totally different take.

Yeah, and this comes from our producer, Matt Kielty.

So next, a slightly different story about Worth.

A story that rather than being about how much we value our own lives, is about how much we value someone else's.

Right.

And it starts with BuzzFeed writer Gregory Johnson.

So, okay, maybe you should start with what has now become sort of the infamous wedding drone strike.

Right.

Was that sort of where it started for you?

Yeah, so this strike happens in a very rugged part of Yemen.

where there are no paved roads, no electricity, there's no running water.

It's Thursday morning, December 12, 2013.

Early that morning, in a small village, a group of guys, roughly 50 to 60 people, including a soon-to-be-married man, pile into a bunch of cars, and they start driving.

This is the convoy, the wedding convoy.

Now, in the lead car of this convoy was this man.

His name is Abdullah Mohammed Al-Taisi.