The Pentagon has awkwardly removed a decade old video from its website after trying to pass it off as evidence that President Donald Trump’s first military attack in Yemen was successful.
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 terror-planning information recovered during the operation.”
However, the clip was abruptly taken down after experts in terrorist media said it was among a number of videos that were released online some 10 years ago.
“The video clip that was posted and abruptly taken down was one of 25 videos that appeared (published) in 2007,” said Adam Raisman, a senior analyst at SITE group which tracks online activities by extremist groups.
US military officials tried to downplay the blunder by hyping up the Sunday raid in Yemen’s al-Bayda province. The operation…