Anger as Trump’s first military action kills eight-year-old Anwar al-Awlaki’s daughter, 30 others
- An eight-year old girl has been reportedly killed in President Trump’s first military order
- She is said to be the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American al-Qaeda leader killed in a US strike ordered by President Obama five years ago
- The US military however said an American commando was killed in retaliation while three others were injured
Nora, an eight-year-old girl was among 30 civilians, 10 women and children reportedly killed in President Trump’s first military order.
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The late girl was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American al-Qaeda leader killed in a US strike ordered by President Obama five years ago, Daily Mail Reports.
Nora, who is also known as Nawar al-Awlaki, was killed along many other non-combat people in the president’s first clandestine operation in Yemen.
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According to Nora's grandfather Nasser al-Awlaki, who was also Yemen's former agriculture minister, the girl died after two hours of being shot in the neck.
He said: “My granddaughter was staying for a while with her mother, so when the attack came, they were sitting in the house, and a bullet struck her in the neck at 2:30 past midnight. Other children in the same house were killed.”
Going further, he said: “They (referring to the SEALs) entered another house and killed everybody in it, including all the women. They burned the house. There is an assumption there was a woman from Saudi Arabia who was with al Qaeda. All we know is that she was a children's teacher.'
“Why kill children? This is the new [US] administration - it’s very sad, a big crime,” Nasser Al-Awlaki said. “[Nora] was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours.”
However, the US military said that 14 al-Qaeda fighters had been killed in the raid, while two others were killed in a drone strike on central Yemen later in the day.
According to the statement by the US military, an American commando was killed in retaliation while three others were injured.
Part of the statement read: "The operation began at dawn when a drone bombed the home of Abdulraoof al-Dhahab and then helicopters flew up and unloaded paratroopers at his house and killed everyone inside," said one anonymous resident, in an account of the incident corroborated by Yemeni security staff.
"Next, the gunmen opened fire at the U.S. soldiers who left the area, and the helicopters bombed the gunmen and a number of homes and led to a large number of casualties."
Meanwhile, Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates Monday night for "refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States".
Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was sworn in at 9 p.m. ET.
Source: Legit.ng
