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Yemen is currently in a very negative and raging position because of the deaths of civilian people in the first commando raid authorized by president Trump. Yemen has prohibited the permission for the United States to run Special Operations ground missions against suspected terrorist groups in the country, according to American officials.
Graphic photographs of children killed in the crossfire of a 50 minute firefight during the raid caused outrage in Yemen. A member of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, Chief Petty Officer William Owens, was also killed in the operation. While the White House continues to insist that the attack was a “success” the suspension of commando operations is a problem for Mr. Trump, who has made it clear he plans to take a far more aggressive approach against Islamic militants. It is not known whether the Pentagon will receive permission from the president for far more autonomy in selecting and executing its counterterrorism missions in Yemen. Mr. Trump will soon have to make a decision about the more general request by the Pentagon to allow more of such operations in Yemen without White House review. It is unclear whether Mr. Trump will allow that, or how the mistakes that occurred in such an operation may have altered his thinking about the human and political risks of similar operations. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/middleeast/yemen-special-operations-missions.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
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President Trump is rolling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the executive power.
Lawyers for the administration were ordered to submit a brief on Monday defending Mr. Trump’s order temporarily banning refugees from around the world and all visitors from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States. An appeals court in California refused on Sunday to reinstate the ban after a lower court blocked it. As people from the countries targeted by Mr. Trump struggled to make their way to the United States while they could, the president expressed rage at the judge in the case once more, this time accusing him of endangering national security. Vice President Mike Pence defended the president’s behavior, but lawyers and lawmakers of both parties said Mr. Trump’s comments reflected negatively for the constitutional system of checks and balances. Late in the day, Mr. Trump Tweeted to blame the judge and the judiciary for what the president suggested would be a future terrorist attack. “Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril,” Mr. Trump wrote, a day after referring to the “so-called judge” in the case. “If something happens blame him and court system.” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/donald-trump-mike-pence-travel-ban-judge.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news |
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