President trumps approved attack that just killed US serviceman & 30 men, woman, children

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(SANAA, Yemen) — The U.S. military said Sunday that one service member was killed and three others wounded in a raid in Yemen targeting its local al-Qaeda branch, marking the first-known combat death of a member of the U.S. military under President Donald Trump.

The raid left about 30 people dead, including women and children, according to an al-Qaeda official and a news service linked to the terror group. One of the children killed was Nora, the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Yemeni-American cleric killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011, according to the girl's grandfather.

A two-hour gunbattle ensued after American service members landed on the ground, it said. About 30 men, women and children were killed in the raid, it added. The killed and wounded included some Saudis present at the site, according to the Yemeni officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists.

A U.S. defense official said the raid was approved by Trump.


American service member killed in Yemen raid http://ti.me/2kHH1sZ

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1. This is more or less a continuation of Obama policies.

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2. yes, but with woman & children killed in their beds, the op wasn't ready to be executed by trump.

President Barack Obama had been briefed on it before he left office on Jan. 20, but for operational reasons it was not ready to be executed

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3. The US has been supporting the Saudis in bombing Yemen.

Why the hell is the US helping Saudi Arabia bomb Yemen? A brief guide.
Updated by Zack Beauchamp@[e-mail] Oct 14, 2016,

Late on Wednesday evening, the United States bombed Yemen’s Houthi militants for the first time, launching cruise missiles at three Houthi-controlled radar installations. The strikes were billed as limited retaliation: Twice in the past week, missiles have been fired from Houthi-controlled territory at US warships in the area (which they luckily missed).

But there’s a bigger story here: The United States has, for more than a year now, been quietly participating in a Saudi-led war against the Houthis, providing valuable logistical support for Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes. So this missile exchange isn’t something out of the blue. It’s an escalation of current US policy, moving from indirect to direct participation in the Saudi offensive.

The problem, though, is that the Saudi campaign is utterly vicious. Saudi airstrikes have struck civilian targets like marketplaces and funeral homes. Their warships have blockaded Yemeni ports, helping to create a humanitarian catastrophe in which children are literally starving to death.

“I honestly don’t know how to describe in words how desperate the situation is in Yemen,” says Kristine Beckerle, a Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch. “It’s a step away from famine.” So the current exchange raises a fundamental question for the Obama administration: How much further are they willing to go in support of their allies’ war crimes?

http://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/14/13269580/us-bombing-yemen-houthis

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4. yes, I know. two years ago we were shouting at Obama to make saudi gov fly their own bombers.

And so it was.

t(R)ump has quickly escalated US participation and has made America a Great target of revenge attacks again. His first 'approval' was a baby killing failure.