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By far my biggest concern with Trump is stuff like this, and what he will do if and when something like this creates an international incident which could quickly spiral out of control.

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I'm not saying he's personally at fault, although in light of this news, that will at least be suggested

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If Trump approved this mission it was because that whole chain recommended he do so.

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The military officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity said "a brutal firefight" killed Owens and at least 15 Yemeni women and children. One of the dead was the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a militant killed by a 2011 U.S. drone strike.

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In an interview with the Guardian, the girl’s grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki, said he did not believe the Americans meant to kill his granddaughter. Nawar, who was staying at the house with her mother, was shot in the neck and died two hours later. “I don’t think this incident was intentional,” Nasser al-Awlaki said in a phone interview from Yemen. The elder Awlaki, a former government minister, said the village in which his granddaughter was staying was not an AQAP hotbed, but rather home to her uncles, tribal sheikhs who were actually fighting with the legal government of Yemen, which the ruling Iran-backed Houthi movement ousted in a coup. Awlaki said the exiled former government was sending arms to his relatives from its southern stronghold in Aden, to combat the Houthis. “If the Americans assumed that those arms were going to the hands of al-Qaida or something, I don’t know,” Nasser al-Awlaki said. “I cannot understand why the Americans use this big commando strike, which is similar to what happened to Osama bin Laden, in a small village in Yemen.”

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Al Qaeda said in a statement that a senior leader and an unspecified number of other militants were killed. One U.S. soldier died in the assault, and a Pentagon spokesman alleged some of the women were firing at the U.S. force.

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