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US raid killed five Yemen civilians, says rights group disputing official story
Source: The Guardian
US raid killed five Yemen civilians, says rights group disputing official story
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday 24 May 2017 20.48 BST
Five civilians were killed in a US navy Seal raid in Yemen against al-Qaida militants, a human rights organisation said on Wednesday.
US central command said that the raid on Tuesday had killed seven members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) in Marib governorate, “through a combination of small arms fire and precision airstrikes.”
However, Reprieve, a London-based human rights group, said it had talked to two sources from the raided village, al-Jubah, who dispute that account.
Both sources said that the raid went wrong from the start as the Seals opened fire on a 70-year-old partially blind man, named as Nasser Al-Adhal, who had come out of his house to see what was going on, possibly to greet them after mistaking them for visitors. On hearing al-Adhal being shot, other men then emerged from their homes, and four of them were shot dead by the Seals, according to the Reprieve account.
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Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday 24 May 2017 20.48 BST
Five civilians were killed in a US navy Seal raid in Yemen against al-Qaida militants, a human rights organisation said on Wednesday.
US central command said that the raid on Tuesday had killed seven members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) in Marib governorate, “through a combination of small arms fire and precision airstrikes.”
However, Reprieve, a London-based human rights group, said it had talked to two sources from the raided village, al-Jubah, who dispute that account.
Both sources said that the raid went wrong from the start as the Seals opened fire on a 70-year-old partially blind man, named as Nasser Al-Adhal, who had come out of his house to see what was going on, possibly to greet them after mistaking them for visitors. On hearing al-Adhal being shot, other men then emerged from their homes, and four of them were shot dead by the Seals, according to the Reprieve account.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/us-military-yemen-raid-al-qaida-civilian-deaths
