8-year-old Yemeni girl ‘shot in neck’ and dies in Trump’s first foreign operation

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    Along with the death of an unknown member of the US military, the daughter of American/Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by a stray bullet in a raid over the weekend. I don’t who was President nor should it matter, people died. PB/TK 

    8-year-old Yemeni girl ‘shot in neck’ and dies in Trump’s first foreign operation
    By Callum Paton 

     

    An eight-year-old girl, the daughter a US-born jiihadi cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in a raid on an al-Qaeda base in Yemen, the girl’s grandfather has claimed.

    The girl’s father, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in a US drone strike in 2011. The al-Qaeda preacher, born in New Mexico, rose to be a prominent ideologue in the militant group. Her grandfather, Nasser Awlaki, told Reuters the death of the young child was a stain on the reputation of the Trump regime.

    “She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours,” Nasser al-Awlaki told the news agency. “Why kill children? This is the new (U.S.) administration – it’s very sad, a big crime.”

    Continue it ibtimes.co.uk article: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/8-year-old-yemeni-girl-shot-neck-dies-trumps-first-foreign-operation-1603830?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous&yptr=yahoo

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