posted February 01, 2017 04:17 PM            

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.

posted February 03, 2017 06:54 AM            

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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms...

posted February 03, 2017 07:14 AM            

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I seem to have loved you in numberless forms...

posted February 03, 2017 08:59 AM            

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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.

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posted February 03, 2017 06:29 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
ISIS cuts off heads indiscriminately. They are not my family. Are they yours?

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I wish you would read more closely before replying.

Rather than skimming.

Because you're intelligent.

posted February 04, 2017 06:27 AM            

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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.

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posted February 05, 2017 09:13 PM            

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