Botched Raid Frays US-Yemen Relations As Slaughter Continues

The raid, conducted on January 29th, killed numerous civilians including the eight-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Photos which allegedly show the home that was the target of the Navy Seal Team 6 raid, published by local Yemeni newspaper, al-Mashhad al-Yemeni.

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. A botched raid by U.S. Special Forces last month that left numerous civilians dead has led, according to The New York Times, to the government in Yemen withdrawing permission for the United States to run ground missions against alleged terrorist groups in the country. At today’s press conference,

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In Trump’s World, Money Talks & Saudi Arabia Gets A Free Pass

Saudi Arabia’s omittance from the Trump’s Muslim ban does not seem so irrational when the dots are connected between the Kingdom and Donald Trump’s bank account.

Medea Benjamin
By Medea Benjamin
Ivanka Trump, DAMAC CEO Hussain Sajwani, and Donald Trump. (DAMAC Group)

President Trump’s Muslim ban is not only mean-spirited and, hopefully, unconstitutional, but it is irrational because it doesn’t even include the country most responsible for spreading terrorism around the world: Saudi Arabia. The travel restrictions on seven Muslim-majority countries was rationalized as a way to thwart potential terrorists from

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Pentagon’s Yemen Raid Video Turned Out To Be 10 Yrs Old

Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Defense Department spokesman, stuck by the Pentagon’s main argument: Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula remains dangerous and wants to recruit and train people to attack the West. “Even though the video is old, it shows their intent,” he told reporters.

National Public Radio
By National Public Radio

A terrorist video released on Friday by the Pentagon to show what it called intelligence gleaned by the recent raid in Yemen actually was made about 10 years ago, it acknowledged. Defense officials canceled a briefing they had called to discuss the value of the information recovered from Yemen and took the video off the website of the U.S.

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SEAL Team 6 Raid In Yemen Kills 57, Including Woman And Children

The raid reportedly lasted less than an hour, and left a large number of women and children riddled with bullets, including at least one eight-year-old girl.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
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(REPORT) ---  Pentagon officials confirmed that Navy SEAL Team 6 attacked what they described as an “al-Qaeda headquarters” in Yemen’s central Bayda Province, bragging of killing “about 14” al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and taking a cache of information. They reported a single soldier killed. Absent from the Pentagon’s account of

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Yemen Reports First US Drone Strikes Under Trump

Marking the first strikes under Trump, the drone strikes may suggest that the policy of drone attacks against targets in nations in which the US is not at war is going to continue beyond the Obama Administration.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Debris and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit an army base, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

(REPORT) --- A pair of US drone strikes in Yemen’s Bayda Province have killed at least 10 people over the weekend, according to Yemeni officials, marking the first drone strikes to be conducted under President Trump, who was inaugurated on Friday. Both drone strikes were in roughly the same rural area, with the first killing three “suspects” on

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Obama Carried Out Ten Times More Drone Strikes Than Bush

Obama oversaw more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency.

Jack Serle
Jessica Purkiss
By Jack Serle
And Jessica Purkiss
The number of civilians killed by United States drone strikes is at least 500, nearly all of the strikes were a part of the Obama administration’s targeted assassination policy. (Photo: (Image: Lance Page/Truthout; Adapted: Amanda Currier, Nathan Barry/Flickr-CC)

There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama’s presidency than under his predecessor, George W. Bush. Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan,

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