The Trump Administration’s claims that a January 29 ground raid in Yemen was a “success” appear to be on increasingly flimsy ground, with the Yemeni government today announcing it has revoked permission for all future US ground operations on their soil.
Though US officials downplayed the move, saying it doesn’t apply to drone strikes, it is still a nasty black eye for the administration, as the US has long managed to keep the Yemeni government unquestioningly supportive, irrespective of a string of fairly plain blunders.
The January 29 raid was particularly bad, with officials saying everything that could’ve gone wrong did, and that the raid was carried out without sufficient intelligence. Though the Pentagon says 14 “combatants” were killed, so were dozens of civilians, including a substantial number of children, and the raid destroyed most of a village.
The large number of slain children, including eight-year-old American Nora Awlaki, fueled a lot of anger at the US, and virtually obliged the Yemeni government to put the kibosh on future such raids. Officials later suggested intelligence acquired might have justified the raid, though so far this amounted to a single, decade-old video that was already publicly available.
I am curious about that girl. Allegedly she took two hours to die (poor thing). Was she in the custody of the Navy Seals during this time? What is their policy towards dying children? Did they attempt to render aid, or was it impossible? If they had know she was as American as Donald Trump would it have made a difference?
Yemen Withdraws Permission for US Ground Operations…
Since when does the Pentagon need ‘permission’ to attack and
slaughter women and kids in a country unable to punch back?
If you listen to the rhetoric coming out of the corporate media
cesspool, these USG ‘raids’ on innocent women and kids are:
‘America’s commit to the defense of freedom worldwide…’
You nailed it EME +100^
You’re absolutely right, EME. The Pentagon has yet to request permission to attack and slaughter innocent civilians anywhere in the world, Yemen included. The raid by SEAL Team 6 on a Yemeni village wherein an 8-year-old US citizen was killed is just one of several such raids. How many of these were orchestrated in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade, under both Bush the Lesser and Obama?
And Obama’s the one who started using drones to bomb civilian areas in countries not engaged in any conflict with the US.
Created by the Banksters and Congress 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
How about withdrawing permission for drone strikes?
Everything the US does seems to be without sufficient intelligence ie without brainpower at all.
A social disease running rampant of late at all levels of society.
The Obama legacy lives on!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-united-states-russia-arrived-at-deal-on-syrias-chemical-weapons/2013/09/15/c851cd1e-1e5b-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?utm_term=.a1a730f66fc5
The most telling thing about this are the comments that condemn Obama’s admin for allowing this to happen, thereby stealing away the US legitmacy for war.
This link was contained in Raimondo’s latest. The fu–er eventually gets some things right at least. Regardless of the fact that Raimondo has made himself a lot of enemies, judging by the comments.
luv from Canada.