[ArabNews] CAIRO: The main figure killed in last month’s US raid in Yemen targeting Al-Qaeda was a tribal leader who was allied to the country’s US- and Saudi-backed president and had been enlisted to fight Yemen’s Houthi insurgents, according to military officials, tribal figures and relatives.
The government connections of tribal chief Sheikh Abdel-Raouf Al-Dhahab raise further questions over the planning of a raid that turned into a heavy firefight with casualties on both sides.
One US Navy Seal was killed, six American soldiers were wounded and a military aircraft suffered a hard landing and had to be destroyed in the assault, which took place days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. |
