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White House Says 'No American Citizen Will Ever Be Targeted' After 8-Year-Old Girl Dies in Yemen
U.S. News & World Report ^ | Jan. 31, 2017

Posted on 01/31/2017 2:39:02 PM PST by deplorableindc

As word spread that an 8-year-old American girl was killed by a U.S. military operation in Yemen over the weekend, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made what sounded like a departure from Obama administration policy.

Spicer, responding to a question about targeted killing attacks, assured reporters Tuesday that "no American citizen will ever be targeted."

The Obama administration took a different approach, drafting a 2010 legal memo justifying the targeting of an American citizen for death by drone strike. The author of the memo, David Barron, was later appointed to be a federal judge.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anwaralaulaqi; anwaralawlaki; aulaqi; awlaki; daralhijrah; fallschurch; fallschurchcell; femalecombatants; isis; nasseralawlaki; nawaralawlaki; terrorism; trumpadministration; yemen
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1 posted on 01/31/2017 2:39:02 PM PST by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

She was the daughter of an Al Qaeda leader, and his human shield!


2 posted on 01/31/2017 2:41:32 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: deplorableindc

Why was a 8 year old American girl in Yemen?


3 posted on 01/31/2017 2:42:11 PM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~)
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To: deplorableindc

Was the girl targeted?


4 posted on 01/31/2017 2:42:23 PM PST by fruser1
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To: deplorableindc

What is an 8 Year Old American Girl doing in Yemen, especially being near a bunch of Terrorists?

Might be a good idea to blame the Parents.


5 posted on 01/31/2017 2:42:49 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: deplorableindc

Define “American”.


6 posted on 01/31/2017 2:43:55 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: PghBaldy

Yeah. What a surprise! These people have been able to go back and forth between America and their hellholes and we have to absorb the stupid media attacks from American haters, communists, muslims and their muslim enablers.

Please, President Trump, do something about it. You are about as far from a fool as I am!!


7 posted on 01/31/2017 2:44:48 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: PghBaldy

No , Obama droned her father - an American
Got a legal opinion it was ok to kill Americans abroad with no trial

But she was probably grabbed as a shield by one of the adults in the house since the raid was at 2:30 am


8 posted on 01/31/2017 2:47:03 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: deplorableindc

If you told that Obama policy to liberals I guarantee that 99 out of 100 would call you a liar.


9 posted on 01/31/2017 2:47:26 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: fruser1

Nope


10 posted on 01/31/2017 2:47:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: deplorableindc

Ridiculous.

The country is FILLED with “Passport Americans” —they are here for financial benefits and there is ZERO emotional attachment.

Perversely, our legal nationality has become so totally cheapened that most of the passport stampers when passing through Customs can barely speak the language, but throw their weight around like they were Special Aid to General Washington.

If you DirkaDirka and wear a nightshirt around town, there should lurk the possiblity of a Pink Misting in your future.

Sorry..!!


11 posted on 01/31/2017 2:48:39 PM PST by gaijin
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We don't know if our boys shot the girl or if was intentional by the targets. The point of the raid was to capture someone, they haven't stated or said if they captured anyone from what I've seen. I doubt they would have put our boys in harms way to just to kill some dudes, when you can simply drop a bomb instead.
12 posted on 01/31/2017 2:48:43 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: PghBaldy

Why is the daughter of Al- A - Whacky an American? I don’t know how to spell his name but he’s dead so who cares? WHATEVER! How in the deuce does anyone sort out all the dead parts for identification? I guess this explains the “American” label....

“”It was unclear whether al-Awlaki’s daughter was killed in the SEAL raid overseen by Joint Special Operations Command, died elsewhere or not at all. But she likely is an American citizen under U.S. law, by virtue of her parentage, since the citizenship of her father, who was born in Las Cruces, N.M., was never revoked.””


13 posted on 01/31/2017 2:50:26 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: bigbob

Of course. They are irrational.


14 posted on 01/31/2017 2:50:44 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: ColdOne

Her mother was holed up with a high value Al Qaeda terror planning cell
Her mother Yemeni
Father was Anwar awlaki the American Al Qaeda who was making terror videos and recruiting
Obama got opinion it was ok,to take him out with a drone in about 2010’
Then took out his teenage son visiting from America also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlak

No,outrage from the left


16 posted on 01/31/2017 2:52:09 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: PghBaldy

remember when Trump suggested we should go after their families too? just sayin’.


17 posted on 01/31/2017 2:53:45 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: deplorableindc

Terrible writing. I can’t figure out what happened.


18 posted on 01/31/2017 2:54:28 PM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: miss marmelstein

“”we have to absorb the stupid media attacks from American haters, communists, muslims and their muslim enablers.””

So true. It is really amazing that everyone; politicians, demoncraps and especially Muslims want to blame/hate us for whatever we do to protect ourselves but when have they ever taken on their own people for what they have done to make us want to rid the world of them? The politicians and democraps are perfectly fine helping them spread their vile propaganda and hate.


19 posted on 01/31/2017 2:54:34 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

That’s the whole magic sperm argument, simply because one of your parents was/is a American you become one. Rubbish.


20 posted on 01/31/2017 2:54:46 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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