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A U. S. military officer told CBS News the raid was approved by Mr. Trump.
U. S. Central Command said in a statement that a fourth service member was injured in a “hard landing” in a nearby location. The aircraft – an MV-22 Osprey, CBS News correspondent David Martin confirms – was unable to fly afterward and was “intentionally destroyed.”
The Central Command statement said 14 militants from al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, formally known as “al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” were killed in the assault and that U. S. service members taking part in the raid captured “information that will likely provide insight into the planning of future terror plots.”
Yemeni security and tribal officials said the assault in Yemen’s central Bayda province killed three senior al Qaeda leaders.
The surprise dawn attack in Bayda province killed Abdul-Raouf al-Dhahab, Sultan al-Dhahab, and Seif al-Nims, the officials said.
The al-Dhahab family is considered an ally of al-Qaida, which is now chiefly concentrated in Bayda province. A third family member, Tarek al-Dhahab, was killed in a previous U. S. drone strike several years ago. It was not immediately clear whether the family members were actual members of al Qaeda.
The U. S. troops killed or wounded some two dozen men, including some Saudis present at the site, according to the Yemeni officials – who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists.
An official with al Qaeda confirmed the killings, describing the attack as a “massacre” and saying that women and children had been killed as well although he provided no evidence to back his claim. He said Apache attack helicopters struck the area from the air before dropping commandos in for the raid, which took place near Yakla village in Radaa district. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Just over a week ago, suspected U. S. drone strikes killed three other alleged al-Qaida operatives in Bayda province in what was the first-such killings reported in the country since Mr. Trump assumed the U. S. presidency.
The tribal officials said the Americans were looking for al-Qaida leader Qassim al-Rimi, adding that they captured and departed with at least two unidentified individuals.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, long seen by Washington as among the most dangerous branches of the global terror network, has exploited the chaos of Yemen’s civil war, seizing territory in the south and east.
The war began in 2014, when Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies swept down from the north and captured the capital, Sanaa. A Saudi-led military coalition has been helping government forces battle the rebels for nearly two years.
Separately, Yemen’s president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi a day earlier called for the remnants of his parliament, many of whom are in exile in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere, to convene in the country’s southern city of Aden, where he is struggling to establish government control.

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On Friday, President Trump delivered on one of his most controversial campaign promises, signing an executive order to bar refugees from entering the United States for four months and all Syrian refugees indefinitely.
The order also puts a 90-day hold on visitors entering from seven Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. The president said that these measures are necessary to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out.” But this paints a very different image from the refugees who are actually admitted into the U. S.
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“Half of the refugees who are arriving in the U. S. are under the age of 14, so a lot of them are kids. Many of them are coming from war-torn areas,” David Miliband, a former secretary of the United Kingdom, told “CBS This Morning: Saturday.” “We work in Syria, in Somalia… in Afghanistan, where many people are local and are supporting American troops and have been and have a right to come to the U. S. We work abroad with those people, but we also work in 29 U. S. cities where the U. S. honors its historic commitment to be a haven for people fleeing persecution.”
Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organization devoted to helping refugees. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Miliband chastised the president’s “un-American refugee policy.” But he’s also using this time as an opportunity to clear up common misconceptions surrounding the refugee admissions process.
Mr. Trump said the government would still review applications from people fleeing religious persecution and that Christians would be given priority for refugee status According to Miliband, the U. S. has already admitted refugees at a “more or less, one-to-one” ratio based on religion.
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“About half – 45 percent are Christians, 45 are Muslims in real figures,” Miliband said. “If I’m being persecuted for political reasons – if I’m a dissonant – why should I get less preferential treatment than if I’m a religious minority? Actually, almost of the Iranians we resettle here are Christians.”
Mr. Trump has also called his administration to come up with an immigrant screening process of “extreme vetting” that would require every applicant to prove he or she will be a “a positively contributing member of society.” But the U. S. already has in place a rigiorous vetting process that could take up to 36 months, Miliband said.
“The average is around 18 months. They have to prove to 12 to 15 different government agencies, including the CIA, that they are who they say they are, that they are going to be safe and that they’re going to be productive residents and citizens of this country. It’s a tough process, including biometric testing,” Miliband said. “It’s tougher to get to the U. S. as a refugee than any other route, be it a visa for a student or tourist or anything else.”
The order would also slash the United States’ refugee quota from the 110,000 originally planned for the 2017 fiscal year to a maximum of 50,000. This leaves 60,000 refugees – many whom have already been vetted — in limbo.
“Some of them are literally waiting to get on planes. They’ve been through the vetting process and they’re waiting to be told which part of the U. S. you are going to be left in,” Miliband said. “And one of the saddest things about this situation is obviously the immediate situation of the people who are stuck in refugee camps or stuck in terrible urban conditions around the world.”
The president’s orders went into effect immediately. On Friday evening, two Iraqi men were detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. According to the American Civil Liberties Union , the men were “threatened with deportation even though they had valid visas to enter the United States.” Their lawyers have now filed a lawsuit against the president. One of the detainees was later released.
In Cairo, six U. S.-bound migrants — five from Iraq and one from Yemen — were also prevented from boarding an EgyptAir fight to JFK Saturday.
In addition to these immediate effects, Miliband is concerned that the executive order will send a dangerous message to the world.
“America’s historically been a leader of the humanitarian system, both in terms of its welcome of refugees and sometimes in terms of its overseas aids,” Miliband said.
Miliband also worries this will be a “propaganda gift” to those who want to do harm to the U. S.
“There’s nothing that ISIS wants more than to be able to say to Muslims around the world, ‘Look, we’re the people who protect you. America will never give you a haven.’ And that in the long-term is one of the most dangerous things.”

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Sen. John McCain on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying it has been a “confused process” that will only give the terror group ISIS “more propaganda.”
“The good news is that it’s only got to do with a pause,” he told CBS’ “Face the Nation. “The bad news is that obviously this process and these conclusions were not vetted.”
McCain said that it’s important to understand the “ramifications of this kind of action,” which has been roundly criticized by foreign leaders .
“The effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda,” he said, adding that he is particularly concerned about the effect the ban will have on Iraqis — whose troops are fighting side-by-side with American forces in the battle to retake Mosul.
He also blasted Mr. Trump for failing to consult with federal agencies or any foreign leaders before announcing such a sweeping action. As a result, he said, there’s a great deal of “confusion” over the ban itself — whether it applies to green-card holders, what happens to Iraqis who have been actively aiding the U. S. military, and other issues.
“There’s so much confusion out there,” he said. “And published reports are that neither the Department of Homeland Security or the Justice Department or others were consulted about this before this decision was made.”
McCain said he is “worried” about Mr. Trump’s changes this weekend to the National Security Council, which involved adding his senior adviser Steve Bannon to the group going forward.
“The appointment of Mr. Bannon is something which is a radical departure from any National Security Council in history,” he said. “… And the role of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been diminished, I understand, with this reorganization. The one person which is indispensible would be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in my view.”
He said he has no problem with Mr. Trump’s hour-long phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, but noted that U. S. leaders should never forget what Putin’s real aims are.
“I think phone calls are fine — I think that we have to understand Vladimir Putin for what he is,” McCain said, citing Putin’s annexation of Crimea, his bombing of hospitals in Aleppo and his attempts to “destabilize” other countries, including the U. S.
McCain, who was captured and tortured during the Vietnam War, said he hopes that Mr. Trump’s selection of people like Defense Secretary James Mattis means the discussion about bringing back waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques is over.
“I hope, I pray that it’s done,” he said. “I appreciate Gen. Mattis’s comment, and especially Gen. Mattis’s comment about what it does to the people who commit the torture — that’s an aspect of this that we probably haven’t examined as much as we should.”

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