provinces. basically a triangle region. the target is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. there were 20, 25 strikes from man and unmanned aircrafts. those continued for a second night bringing the total to more north of 30 strikes. that s intense fire fighting taking place, intense strikes taking place in yemen. of course, the scene where that u.s. navy s.e.a.l. was lost in that raid where they did have some difficulties. a lot of things, according to numerous administration officials went wrong. there could also be additional strikes taking place. now, the pentagon has been very clear, they don t want to telegraph any future actions. but it s very clear that they have some intelligence about potential external threats, that s what they say is the danger there. this seems like an escalation in yemen. one quick note on ground troops. there were some local reports that ground troops had been involved in this most recent round. that s last night s strikes. pentagon denying that. saying the
including who s connected to who as part of the information the seals recovered from that operation. i good information we re told by this official. we were told the navy s.e.a.l.s. collected a computer and ten mobile phones and would be undoubtedly scanning those phones for potential targets. now, this official said al qaeda in the arabian peninsula represents a greater threat to the u.s. home land than isis. top intelligence officials have long been concerned about their ability to build nonmetallic bombs that can slip through airport screening. separately the pentagon said 30 air strikes have been carried out in yemen by the u.s. military over the past two nights. that according to captain jeff davis. u.s. ground forces have not been involved in raids since january 29 lost the election. that raid, both drones and manned aircraft were used in strikes over the last two nights, just to give you an idea
to be this stupid mission when it wasn t even barely a week into mr. trump s administration? why? for two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in yemen. everything was missiles and drones? because there was not a target worth one american life. now all of a sudden we had to make this grand display? what do you think of his comments? i can understand his grief, but he doesn t quite have the facts straight. we have had forces, special operations forces in yemen and monitoring that situation. it is a terribly intense al qaeda area, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. all parents have grief after their children are killed in combat. when special operations command plans a mission and when it goes all the way up to the president for decision making and he has to make a call remember, alisyn, mr. obama was slammed multiple times for holding the
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the pentagon claimed he was never the target but an official said targeting him one was one of the operations. eric and david of the new york times described it as a case where almost everything that could go wrong did. this is not the only recent action in yemen. the u.s. has ramped up activity over this war torn nation in recent years. as many as 174 aqap members were killed in strikes la year according to the long war journal. that s up from 97 the previous year. there were 38 strikes in 2016 up from 22 in 2015. there s been five strikes already this year as the new york times points out. what is going on? for one, al qaeda and the