Still desperately trying to present the disastrous weekend raid into Yemen as having netted a treasure trove of valuable intelligence, the Pentagon released, and then sheepishly retracted, a video which they presented as a “detailed, do-it-yourself lesson” on terror attacks.
The release was supposed to vindicate the raid, but media outlets noted within minutes of the Pentagon statement that the video itself had been publicly available since at least 2007, and that the only difference was the Pentagon had gone to the trouble to subtitle it.
The Pentagon withdrew the video shortly thereafter, saying they did not want to give the impression they were trying to deceive people by presenting a decade-old video as new. They didn’t want to give that impression, at least, once it became apparent to everyone that’s what was happening.
Centcom appeared more contrite, insisting they had no idea the video was as old as it was and would never have tried to push it as a major intelligence find. Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis, however, was a lot more defensive, insisting it “does not matter” that the video was old, because it’s still illustrative of the sort of thing al-Qaeda is about.
The weekend raid, the first of the Trump Administration, killed an estimated 57 people, overwhelmingly civilians, and destroyed most of a village. The raid was presented by the Pentagon initially as targeting “al-Qaeda headquarters,” though officials have since admitted it simply was an attack on the home of a suspected al-Qaeda collaborator, and one carried out with a paucity of intelligence.
Ok. Is this guy’s real name Jefferson Davis? If it is, we can safely assume that the South won the civil war. Remember, their money was no good. Is this where we are headed? Two white guys named after traitors who actually started a war to preserve slavery. And that’s the only reason they started that war, to keep other human beings as property.
It’s becoming more apparent this may have been purely a mission of revenge, to punish Anwar al-Awlaki’s brothers in law for their role in helping him escape the first attempt to assassinate him, or maybe just because they were his brothers in law and his widow is not living in her family’s village.
Et tu Donald…??????????
Trump administration headline… Eight year old Yemeni child killed by American morons with a paucity of intelligence and zero humanity.
Speaking of a paucity of intelligence and zero humanity, if you can stomach it, watch the Stupid Bowl pregame with all the chest thumping, grunting and fist pumping idiocy(a large chunk by self described “progressives”)as the pentagon flies it’s latest high priced killer machines over the stadium.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a US citizen summarily executed simply for what he had to say and who he knew. His son, totally innocent of anything, was killed in a SEPARATE drone bombing. And now his totally innocent daughter has been brutally killed, a loss considered perfectly acceptable by the administration and most media, for an ill-defined cause that shows no sign of being resolved. Mass murder and no regard for the law is what terrorists believe in.
Brought to you courtesy of the Pentagon USA!
Sep 26, 2016 Yemen’s Children are Starving
Yemen is on the brink of famine. BBC Arabic reveals exclusive footage of the growing humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where 2 million people are malnourished and over 325,000 children are at risk of starvation.
https://youtu.be/qi-JYm6maI0
thanks