Anger as Trump’s first military action kills eight-year-old Anwar al-Awlaki’s daughter, 30 others

 An eight-year old girl has been reportedly killed in 
President Trump’s first military order , She is said to 
be the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American al-Qaeda leader killed in a US strike ordered by President 
Obama five years ago.

- The US military however said an American commando 
was killed in retaliation while three others were injured.

Nora, the eight-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki
 was among 30 civilians, 10 women and children 
reportedly killed in President Trump’s first military order.

The late girl was the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, an 
American al- Qaeda leader killed in a US strike ordered
 by President Obama five years ago, Daily Mail Reports.

Nora, who is also known as Nawar al-Awlaki, was killed
 along many other non-combat people in the president’s
 first clandestine operation in Yemen.

According to Nora's grandfather Nasser al-Awlaki, who
 was also Yemen's former agriculture minister, the girl
 died after two hours of being shot in the neck.

He said: “My granddaughter was staying for a while with
 her mother, so when the attack came, they were sitting
 in the house, and a bullet struck her in the neck at 2:30
 past midnight. Othern children in the same house were 
killed.”

                                   Nora's father


Going further, he said: “They (referring to the SEALs) 
entered another house and killed everybody in it, including
 all the women.

They burned the house. There is an assumption there
 was a woman from Saudi Arabia who was with al Qaeda.
 All we know is that she was a children's teacher.'

“Why kill children? This is the new [US] administration -
 it’s very sad, a big crime,” Nasser Al-Awlaki said. “[Nora]
 was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours.”

However, the US military said that 14 al-Qaeda fighters
 had been killed in the raid, while two others were killed
 in a drone strike on central Yemen later in the day.

According to the statement by the US military, an 
American commando was killed in retaliation while 
three others were injured.


Part of the statement read: "The operation began at dawn when a drone bombed the home of Abdulraoof al-Dhahab
 and then helicopters flew up and unloaded paratroopers 
at his house and killed everyone inside," said one 
anonymous resident, in an account of the incident corroborated by Yemeni security staff.

"Next, the gunmen opened fire at the U.S. soldiers who
 left the area, and the helicopters bombed the gunmen
 and a number of homes and led to a large number of casualties."