Leader of Al-Qaeda in Yemen Mocks Trump After Raid - ABC News

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- Unverified -

The leader of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has released an audio recording in which he describes President Donald Trump as the "White House's new fool" and says a recent U.S. raid against the group killed 25 people, including 11 women and children.

Addressing his followers in the recording, which emerged late Saturday, Qassim al-Rimi says, "The White House's new fool has received a painful blow at your hands in his first outing on your land."

Al-Rimi identifies all 25 purported victims of the Jan. 29 raid and claims that scores of U.S. troops were killed or wounded.

The recording's authenticity could not be immediately verified, but the voice was similar to that of previous recordings by al-Rimi.

The U.S. military says a Navy SEAL was killed in the raid.* - ABC News

Like Robert Reich said. tRump is Al-Qaeda's #1 recruiting tool. They're playing him like a fiddle.

tRump's foreign policy is, to coin his own words, a TOTAL DISASTER!

* Not sure if ABC left the other facts out by intention or mistake, but something between 30 and 60 people lost their lives during this attack, including an 8 y.o. girl. One $72 million V-22 Osprey crash landed and had to be destroyed by a laser guided smartbomb.

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1. Will the civilians and children be described as "suspected terrorists"?

SOP for these occasions of extrajudicial murder.

[Lanius]

2. Reminds me how the U.S. news media always left out the number of Iraqis killed or wounded

when reporting on the Iraq War. They also routinely failed to mention how many Iraqis had been displaced into neighboring countries. It made the war seem like a "small" conflict in which a few thousand Americans and Iraqi insurgents were being killed or wounded.

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3. Yemen Raid Had Secret Target: Al Qaeda Leader Qassim Al-Rimi

After the raid, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said it had been "a successful operation by all standards" and the Pentagon released a statement that said U.S. forces had captured "materials and information that is yielding valuable intelligence."

A senior U.S. intelligence official has told NBC News that "almost everything went wrong" once the raid got underway. Occupants of the target house were alerted by something — possibly a barking dog, a drone crash or a walkie-talkie chatter, U.S. officials said

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yemen-raid-had-secret-target-al-qaeda-leader-qassim-al-n717616

It was also said before the raid they didn't think Obama would more or less have the balls to go through with raid, egging on Trump to give the OK