The Pentagon has been caught attempting to pass off an old propaganda video to justify a deadly raid in Yemen. The Pentagon promptly withdrew an old video it had released to use as ‘evidence’ that a fatal raid in Yemen this week was a counter-terrorism success. The US military removed the video from their website after it was exposed to be vintage Al-Qaeda footage that was made public a decade ago. On Friday, the Pentagon posted a video to the Defense Video Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) website which they said justified the operation in Yemen which cost the life of one US Navy SEAL along with several Yemeni civilians. The video which purported to show “important intelligence”was taken down after officials realized the footage has been available online for ten years. The footage entitled, “Lessons in How to Destroy the Cross,” were first posted to the Site Intelligence group website in 2007. Several hours after its posting, the material was removed from the DVIDS site. Press TV reports: On Friday, the US military released footage that showed a ski-masked man encouraging people to build bombs, with a US Central Command spokesman touting it as an “example of the volumes of sensitive al-Qaeda [...]
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