Pro-government tribal leader among dead in US raid in Yemen

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Pro-government tribal leader among dead in US raid in Yemen

CAIRO –  The main figure killed in last month's U.S. raid in Yemen targeting al-Qaida was a tribal leader who was allied to the country's U.S.- and Saudi-backed president and had been enlisted to fight Yemen's Shiite rebels, 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 U.S. 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.

Continued: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/16/pro-government-tribal-leader-among-dead-in-us-raid-in-yemen.html