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A BLOODY US military raid on southern Yemen in January yielded “significant intelligence,” US Vice-President Mike Pence claimed yesterday.
In a round of breakfast television appearances, Mr Pence quoted Defence Secretary James Mattis’s assessment of the commando raid that left Chief Special Warfare Officer William Owens and up to 27 civilians dead, including an eight-year-old girl whose brother and father were previously killed by the US.
Six more troops were injured and a MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft was destroyed in what the Pentagon called a “hard landing.”
On Tuesday, an anonymous official said the intelligence obtained included details of explosives being manufactured by Yemen’s al-Qaida affiliate.
US President Donald Trump also relayed Mr Mattis’ claims to Fox News on Tuesday. Mr Trump expressed his sympathies to Mr Owens’s father, who refused to meet the president last week and who has called for an inquiry into the deadly mission.
