{"id":1933617,"date":"2023-05-18T23:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T03:57:08","slug":"biden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration retracts statement on killing Al-Qaeda leader, reportedly killed father of 10 in airstrike."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Biden Administration Walks Back Claims of Killing Al-Qaeda Leader<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration is backtracking on their earlier claims of killing a major figure in the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. This comes after the family and acquaintances of the slain man, Lotfi Hassan Misto, claimed that he had no ties to terrorism and was simply tending to his sheep when he was hit by a Hellfire missile in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, U.S. officials claimed that a &#8220;senior Al Qaeda leader&#8221; had been taken out by a Predator drone strike, but they did not provide proof or name the suspect. The Washington Post later reported that Misto was the person killed in the strike.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation Underway<\/h3>\n<p>Now, U.S. officials are admitting that they are no longer confident that they killed a senior AQ official and are investigating the incident to determine whether or not it may have unintentionally resulted in harm to civilians. The Pentagon has not released any information about who their target was, if the target escaped, and what information they had indicating that Misto was an al-Qaeda terrorist.<\/p>\n<h3>Similar Incident in August 2021<\/h3>\n<p>This incident is reminiscent of a drone strike the Biden administration made in August 2021 during the Afghanistan pullout. The administration claimed to have &#8220;conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-centcom-issues-new-statement-on-strike-against-isis-target-we-are-investigating-further\/\" title=\"U.S. CENTCOM Issues New Statement On Strike Against ISIS Target: \u2018We Are Investigating Further\u2019\">-horizon airstrike today<\/a> on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport.&#8221; However, the administration later admitted that the drone strike was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons to be Learned<\/h3>\n<p>These incidents highlight the need for greater transparency and accountability in U.S. military operations. It is important to thoroughly investigate and verify targets before taking action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-walks-back-claim-that-it-killed-major-al-qaeda-figure-in-airstrike-killed-father-of-10-report\/\" title=\"Biden administration retracts statement on killing Al-Qaeda leader, reportedly killed father of 10 in airstrike.\">prevent innocent lives<\/a> from being lost. The Biden administration must take steps to ensure that such mistakes do not happen again in the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transparency and accountability are crucial in military operations<\/li>\n<li>Thorough investigation and verification of targets is necessary to prevent innocent lives from being lost<\/li>\n<li>The Biden administration must take steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/universal-pictures-spark-backlash-apologize-for-dubbing-transgender-activist-laverne-cox-with-male-voice\/\" title=\"Universal Pictures Spark Backlash, Apologize For Dubbing Transgender Activist Laverne Cox With Male Voice\">prevent similar mistakes<\/a> from happening in the future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let us hope that lessons are learned from these incidents and that the U.S. military can operate with greater precision and accuracy in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials are retracting their earlier statement of killing a key member of al-Qaeda. The family and acquaintances of the deceased, a father of 10 and former bricklayer, disputed the claim made by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1933618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4106,3942,17566,3620,6453,3940,4992,3939,4292,18217,6317],"class_list":["post-1933617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-administration","tag-airstrike","tag-al-qaeda","tag-biden","tag-father","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-leader","tag-reportedly","tag-retracts","tag-statement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}