When any president usurps the power to create a list of enemies of the United States and assassinate people on that list, he places our Republic on a trajectory toward tyranny and unbounded, unaccountable, unending government-sponsored terrorism. President Trump’s approval (and that of Presidents Bush and Obama before him) of drone-delivered assassinations is an assault on, and a dismissal of, over 650 years of our Anglo-American law’s protection from autocratic decrees of death without due process of law. That is to say, we, the American people, hold fast to the tenet that no man (or second grade girl) can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without the due process of law. One of those now-nullified principles is due process. tyrants committed to considering the Constitution a relic and its principles outmoded. There are those, of course, who cheer President Trump’s swift entry into the terrible roster of U.S. Such a condition does not exist, however, and those killed by Special Operations forces were sentenced to die by one man: Donald J. The killing by the military of the other 29 or so men and women may have been justified had they been enemy combatants, people fighting against the United States after Congress had exercised its constitutional obligation by declaring a state of war with the United States and the targeted individuals. Yes, it is undoubtedly a crime for an American serviceman to kill a 8-year-old girl. “Why kill children? This is the new (U.S.) administration - it’s very sad, a big crime.” “She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours,” the girl’s grandfather Nasser al-Awlaki, who served as a minister under a previous government, told Reuters. How exactly was the little girl killed by the SEALs during this encounter? Her grandfather related the story of the sad scene to Reuters. soldiers who left the area, and the helicopters bombed the gunmen and a number of homes and led to a large number of casualties,” the unnamed source added. citizen killed by Donald Trump since his inauguration.Ī resident of the town where the raid occurred described the event in a statement to Reuters. “The operation began at dawn when a drone bombed the home of Abdulraoof al-Dhahab and then helicopters flew up and unloaded paratroopers at his house and killed everyone inside,” said the resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Next, the gunmen opened fire at the U.S. While Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was one of several American citizens killed on the order of Barack Obama, eight-year-old Nawar al-Awlaki becomes the first U.S. military intervention in Yemen, it should be kept in mind that such “collateral damage,” as well as the death of an American soldier, would not have occurred if the raid had not been undertaken. Although these casualties were presumably an unintended consequence of the U.S. The “10 women and children” killed included Nawar al-Awlaki, the aforementioned daughter of suspected (now assassinated) Yemeni-born cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki. Similar operations have produced intelligence on al-Qaida logistics, recruiting and financing efforts.
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The raid is one in a series of aggressive moves against terrorist planners in Yemen and worldwide, according to the Centcom release. service member died of wounds suffered in the raid, and three others were wounded…. Central Command news release issued today. The following version of events was provided by the Pentagon in a press release:Īn estimated 14 al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula terrorists were killed yesterday during a raid by U.S. servicemen were injured when an American military aircraft was sent to evacuate the wounded commandos but came under fire and had to be “intentionally destroyed in place,” the Pentagon said. Medics at the scene, however, said around 30 people, including 10 women and children, were killed. military said it killed 14 militants in a raid on a powerful al Qaeda branch that has been a frequent target of U.S. commando died and three others were wounded carrying out a deadly dawn raid on the al Qaeda militant group in southern Yemen on Sunday, in the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. Navy’s elite special operations unit, under the protective cover of Reaper drones loaded with missiles, as reported by the U.K. One American soldier was also killed.Īs reported by various news outlets, here are the details of the deadly raid conducted by the U.S. On Sunday, January 29, members of the so-called Seal Team Six carried out a commando operation that along with 14 alleged members of al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), left more than a dozen other men, women, and children dead, including the eight-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a man assassinated by the U.S.
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