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Reprieve slams Yemen whitewash

LEGAL action charity Reprieve slammed yesterday the Pentagon’s whitewash of the botched January raid on Yemen that left dozens of civilians and one US soldier dead.

US Central Command chief General Joseph Votel told senators his investigation had found no lapses in judgement.

The raid on suspected al-Qaida militants, planned last year, was US President Donald Trump’s first act of overseas aggression.

He claimed that only between four and 12 innocent people had been killed, contradicting local residents who said 10 children — including two infants — and nine women were killed.

Reprieve lawyer Jennifer Gibson, who represents the families of some of the victims, said: “President Trump’s government has conducted a secret, internal review and determined they don’t count as innocents.”

“A secret, internal review that contradicts eyewitness accounts, reclassifies innocent children as combatants, and underestimates the number of dead is simply not good enough,” she said, urging a public inquiry.

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