Published on Feb 3, 2017
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- Questions are mounting about the first covert counterterrorism
operation approved by President Donald Trump. Authorities say it was a
success. The Pentagon now acknowledges that civilians were killed Sunday
when members of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 joined with commandos from the
United Arab Emirates to raid a Yemeni village where members of al-Qaeda
were said to live. But human rights groups say up to 24 civilians were
killed, including a newborn baby and an American 8-year-old girl, Nawar
al-Awlaki, the daughter of the U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was
killed in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike in 2011. The U.S. suffered one
fatality: William "Ryan" Owens, a veteran member of SEAL Team 6. We get
response from Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept, who has
extensively covered Yemen; Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney with the
Center for Constitutional Rights; and Baraa Shiban, the Yemen project
coordinator and caseworker with Reprieve.