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The rural home of a tribal leader's family, friendly with some Yemeni al-Qaeda members, was raided by a special operations commando. A U.S. tiltrotor military aircraft was shot down during the raid. One soldier was killed and several were wounded. The U.S. commandos responded with their usual panic. They killed anyone in sight and bombed the shit out of any nearby structure. According to Yemeni sources between 30 and 57 Yemenis were killed including eight women and eight children (graphic pics). The U.S. military claimed, as it always does, that no civilians were hurt in the raid.That early description holds up well against recent reporting by NBC, the Washington Post and the New York Times. The incident happened as described.
One of the killed kids was the 8 year old daughter of al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki.
Comment: What media lock-down looks like in Turkey as it approaches full Fascism, a gift from declaring a state of emergency: The media is directly controlled by the government or indirectly controlled by government regulation or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship is essential. The repression involves the whole gamut from installing colonial trustees; elimination of structure; usurping or closing down print publications, radio and TV stations and web sites; targeting journalists for opinions, prose and 'subliminal messages'; withdrawing press cards and passports, and taking into custody any the state deems questionable. Tyranny.