http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/yemen-suspends-american-ground-ops-after-botched-raid-1792143789 Yemen Suspends American Ground Ops After Botched Raid: Report
After President Donald Trump’s first raid ended with at least 30 civilians and a member of Seal Team Six dead as well as a village left severely damaged, Yemen has pulled permission for the U.S. military to conduct ground operations against terror suspects on its territory, according to a report from CNN. That is, in short, not good.
The U.S. military would have to secure its permission first before conducting future operations, as Yemen government officials told CNN. One of the officials, who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity, said that Yemen did not want to lose America as an ally,“but their actions and killing of innocent civilians are putting us in the hot seat in front of our people.”
What’s worse is that one of the sources said its military officials weren’t aware the raid was taking place:
That’s what happens when a mission goes wrong. From the intelligence we have, conducting a raid was the wrong option and failure was written all over it. The only side that gained is al Qaeda.
While White House officials said the primary goal of the raid was to gather intelligence, military officials told CNN on Monday that Qassim al-Rimi, head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was also a target. Women and children including al-Rimi’s 8-year-old daughter, Nawar Anwar al-Awlaki, however, were the ones hit.
Al-Rimi was heard in a video later straight-up taunting President Donald Trump, calling him a “fool.” Even U.S. Senator John McCain said the raid was a “failure.”
Another setback this suspension in Yemen presents is that it hampers the U.S. military’s ability to fight Al Qaeda’s growing presence in the country, where an ongoing civil war is causing political instability.
Malcolm Nance, executive director of the Terror Asymmetric Project and retired U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence officer, told Foxtrot Alpha that the raid’s non-combatant casualties reminded him of Trump’s 2015 vow to kill terrorists’ families. He says that number of civilian deaths is unusually high and that something more sinister may be at play.
“The fact that this was a hard house with the wives of these people, my first though was they have removed the rules of engagement on civilians,” Nance said. “And they have added that rule of engagement, just like Trump promised. ‘We will kill the families of terrorists.’”
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То есть орел наш рыжехарий мало того что обосрался с рейдом, был выкинут из Йемена, но еще и, похоже, разрешил стрелять по гражданским.
Да он, походу, работает рекрутером у Аль Каеды!