February 28, 2017 | Quoted by Alex Lockie - Business Insider

White House responds to father of Navy SEAL killed in Yemen raid

Bill Roggio

Senior Fellow and Editor of FDD's Long War Journal

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday responded to the father of US Navy SEAL Chief William “Ryan” Owens, who was killed in action during a raid in Yemen, saying the Department of Defense would launch three investigations into the operation.

Owens' father, Bill, in an interview with The Miami Herald on Sunday, urged President Donald Trump to answer questions about the raid in Yemen that resulted in the death of his son, as many as 29 civilians, and the destruction of an MV-22 Osprey helicopter.

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Bill Roggio, the editor of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Long War Journal, previously told Business Insider that Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen plans international attacks and that some of the intelligence on these attacks can be recovered only by going in and confiscating hard drives.

Ultimately, Roggio said it would be “hard to know” the success of the mission without seeing the intelligence recovered. “And we're never going to see it,” he said.

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