Posted on 05/19/2023 5:54:41 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
QORQANYA, Syria — U.S. military officials are walking back claims that a recent strike in Syria killed an influential al-Qaeda figure, following assertions by the dead man’s family that he had no ties to terrorists but was a father of 10 tending to his sheep when he was slain by an American missile.
Lotfi Hassan Misto, 56, whose family identified him as the victim of a Hellfire missile attack on May 3, was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in this town in northwest Syria, according to interviews with his brother, son and six others who knew him. They described a kind, hard-working man whose “whole life was spent poor.”
The operation was overseen by U.S. Central Command, which claimed hours after the strike, without citing evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a “senior Al Qaeda leader.” But now there is doubt inside the Pentagon about who was killed, two U.S. defense officials told The Washington Post.
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Well, it sounded good when the “media” trumpeted it to the ignorant masses sitting in front of their TVs like it was 1984.
Totally unacceptable. This is the second drone strike(that we know of) that targeted innocent people. Shameful.
Sidewinder & Hellfire missiles for toy balloons and sheep herders — Thoroughly Modern Milley!
Stoopid incompetent liars. America the disgrace.
Biden killed a sheep herder, pathetic. He has dementia, who will he bomb next?
Way to go, killed a shepherd who was tending his sheep. Father of 10, that children not sheep.
more collateral damage from Joey B’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. we do not have sufficient eyes/ears on the ground in the area - as the generals told him would be the case. the man simply has made every step a misstep. quite the talent.
Sigh. Sorry about that, Mr Misto.
What does anyone expect when the people running the military, the economy, the border, etc are the same people telling us men can have periods?
Scary times.
It’s a failing grade for military and their commander in chief.
Its endless damage by a fool in charge.
yep
Was he a rapper just getting his life together?.............
We’ve evolved from blowing up weddings to blowing up guys tending their sheep.
How much are we spending on this crap?
Omar Nezhat , Meg Kelly , Alex Horton and Imogen Piper
There was a time when one writer got the credit, then two, then three, and now four? Is this a full employment program being run by the WaPo?
They killed Alvin Qaida Sr. Easy mistake. The Marcus Allen who owned the account cited by Rep. Sanchez yesterday was also a victim of that same drone strike, credible reports say!
Didn’t Marcus Allen play football for the Lost Angeles Raydahs?
Well, I guess it’s better than the last one, where the killed 10 innocents, mostly children./sarc
Another Joe oopsIe?
And that family now becomes part of al-queda in revenge.
> There was a time when one writer got the credit, then two, then three, and now four? <
It’s probably an equity thing. One of them wrote the article. One of them found a related picture. One made the coffee. And the last one went out for donuts.
But under woke equity theory, everyone must get equal credit. After all, we must not judge the writer as being any more important than the donut person.
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