He was a boy who hadn't seen his father in two years

[Honeycombe8]

57. Not delicately worded, but I think he meant the dad, living w/AQ in Yemen,

knowing that AQ and he, himself, were being targeted by the U.S., brought his son with him to Yemen. That doesn't excuse a targeted killing of the son, if the son wasn't involved in something suspicious or living with AQ. But it is pretty irresponsible to put your son in harm's way like that, unless there was some purpose he wanted his son there for. Otherwise, why wouldn't he leave the son where he was before, in school, getting an education for a future life? That's how I take the statement. But he wasn't clear, so hard to say. And certainly, in such an area, it wasn't hard to foresee that the son would get killed inadvertently. I think it's a pattern for AQ to raise their sons and groom them to become AQ terrorists. Indoctrination starts early. I can see where someone would assume a 16 year old was well on the way of being indoctrinated to AQ thought and behavior. But that's an assumption.