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Topic: An 8-Year-Old American Girl Was Killed in First Clandestine Military Strike Under Tru
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BlueRoamer Knowflake Posts: 117 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 01, 2017 04:17 PM
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/01/an-8-year-old-girl-died-in-trumps-first-military-strike.html On Sunday, the U.S. military conducted a raid in southern Yemen that was reportedly intended to capture “information that [would] likely provide insight into the planning of future terror plots” from Al Qaeda operatives. A member of Navy SEAL Team 6, an elite group of commandos, died in the raid, which was the first under President Trump. And on Tuesday, officials confirmed that an 8-year-old American girl named Nawar Al-Awlaki was also killed. Nawar, who went by Nora, was the daughter of New Mexico–born Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. raid five years ago. At the time, some worried that the targeted killing of Al-Awlaki would “transform someone who was, at best, a marginal figure into a martyr,” and Karen Greenberg, the director of Fordham University’s Center on National Security, said Nora’s death could be used the same way. “The perception will be that it’s not enough to kill Al-Awlaki — that the U.S. had to kill the entire family,” she told NBC. This is not the first of Al-Awlaki’s children to die during an American military strike. Her 16-year-old brother, Abdulrahman, was killed in 2011 under the Obama administration. (Asked why — the boy was not actively involved in terrorism in any way — former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs gave the strange and discomfiting answer that Abdulrahman should have “had a more responsible father.”) The girl’s grandfather and Yemen’s former agricultural minister, Nasser al-Awlaki, told NBC that Nora had gone to stay at her mother’s house, which is where the attack took place. “They entered the house and killed everybody in it, including all the women,” he said. As for Nora, “a bullet struck her in her neck at 2:30 past midnight.” He said she died two hours later. According to the Pentagon, 14 militants and “numerous” civilians died in the raid; the Associated Press reports that nearly 30 people were killed. Al Qaeda has already released a statement calling the raid a “massacre,” and saying the SEALs fired on women and children “in cold blood.” But U.S. officials said some of the women Nasser al-Awlaki described were combatants, who fired on the SEALs as they approached the camp IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 21621 From: Bella's Hair Salon Registered: Jul 2011
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posted February 01, 2017 04:58 PM
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LeeLoo2014 Knowflake Posts: 18877 From: Venus cornering Neptune Registered: Mar 2014
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posted February 03, 2017 06:54 AM
At this point, it almost looks as if he is deliberately trying to start a war, both inside and outside. As I said, but so fast ![](http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/frown.gif) ------------------ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms... LeeLoo's Esotericorner IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 03, 2017 07:04 AM
Obama had a kill list. The difference is Obama used drones and blew up intel in the process. I'm sorry for the lives lost, but we did retrieve some valuable info.IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 03, 2017 07:06 AM
The women fired first. And these are the refugees the left wants to let into this country?IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 03, 2017 07:09 AM
And Al Qaeda talks about killing women and children in cold blood? Attacking soft targets is their prime directive. And once again, this is the country the left wants to accept refugees from?IP: Logged |
LeeLoo2014 Knowflake Posts: 18877 From: Venus cornering Neptune Registered: Mar 2014
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posted February 03, 2017 07:14 AM
Oh, Randall, he's escalating with provocation too fast, me not like it. Remember that all Americans are your family, and so are all good people around the world, the variety of this family is your strength. Whoever has no power to unite a people becomes its enemy.------------------ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms... LeeLoo's Esotericorner IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 21621 From: Bella's Hair Salon Registered: Jul 2011
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posted February 03, 2017 08:59 AM
quote: Originally posted by LeeLoo2014: Remember that all Americans are your family, and so are all good people around the world, the variety of this family is your strength. Whoever has no power to unite a people becomes its enemy.
Well said, Lee. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 03, 2017 02:26 PM
ISIS cuts off heads indiscriminately. They are not my family. Are they yours?IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 21621 From: Bella's Hair Salon Registered: Jul 2011
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posted February 03, 2017 06:29 PM
quote: Originally posted by Randall: ISIS cuts off heads indiscriminately. They are not my family. Are they yours?
I wish you would read more closely before replying. Rather than skimming. Because you're intelligent. But you don't show it, when you reply haphazardly like that. IP: Logged |
GeminiKarat Moderator Posts: 3780 From: 48N13 Registered: Jun 2014
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posted February 04, 2017 06:27 AM
quote: Originally posted by LeeLoo2014: Oh, Randall, he's escalating with provocation too fast, me not like it. Remember that all Americans are your family, and so are all good people around the world, the variety of this family is your strength. Whoever has no power to unite a people becomes its enemy.
I do not like either those escalations. I am sorry for the loss. ![](http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/angel.gif) IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 04, 2017 06:47 PM
This raid was actually planned by the the Obama administration, but they were waiting for a moonless night, which didn't happen before Obama left office.IP: Logged |
Catalina Knowflake Posts: 3596 From: shamballa Registered: Aug 2013
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posted February 05, 2017 09:13 PM
It was never ok'd and i continue to be amazed how you defend the new guy by saying the one you hate so much thought it up 😉And where's the "America Hater" outcry at the remark about how we also kill people.. also pointed out by Obama and accompanied to long-lasting rebuke? It is true no matter who says it.. even tho this version was bereft of sympathy for the victims and all about excusing Don Wannabe for his choice of friends IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 75166 From: From a galaxy, far, far away... Registered: Apr 2009
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posted February 05, 2017 09:54 PM
The terrorists shielded themselves with women, and then the women picked up guns and opened fire on the soldiers. IP: Logged |