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Old 02-02-2017, 12:06 AM  
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
Can youi provide us with links please.
Paul, if Obama wanted to approve it, Trump wouldn't have had to approve it, it would have been a holdover mission ready to go.

"...the raid was Trump's first clandestine strike ? not a holdover mission approved by President Barack Obama. The mission involved "boots on the ground" at an al Qaeda camp near al Bayda in south central Yemen, the official said.

"Almost everything went wrong," the official said."

SEAL, American Girl Die in First Trump-Era U.S. Military Raid - NBC News

Pentagon sources: Obama did not reject plan for Yemen raid | Washington Examiner
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