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Navy SEAL in Bin Laden raid Rob O'Neill says the rest of the world
is 'mocking' the US while it 'fights over pronouns'
Military morale has been crushed and veterans are asking what they were fighting for a year on from the Afghanistan pullout
O'Neill has issued a warning to the US and the Afghan people, 12 months on
The two-time Silver Star winner says the Taliban has only been emboldened
He says rights of Afghan women are now where they were in September 2001
Believes US legitimacy is steadily declining in the wake of the withdrawal
China is 'mocking' the U.S. because we are 'fighting ourselves about what pronouns to use'
With veteran suicide rights still high and in the midst of a military recruitment crisis, he says morale is at a low point
By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:55 EDT, 21 August 2022 | UPDATED: 16:22 EDT, 21 August 2022
The full story can be found at the Daily Mail
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O'Neill didn't even mention the drone strikes on girls playing volleyball...
U.S. condemns drone strike that killed teen girls
playing volleyball in Syria
By Adam Schrader
Zozan Zedan has been identified as one of the girls killed in the drone strike while playing volleyball.
Photo courtesy of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Maj. Gen. John Brennan, the commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, condemned a drone stroke this week that killed four teen girls and injured several others who were playing volleyball.
Brennan said in a statement Friday that the girls who were killed were active in a United Nations educational outreach program in Hasakah.
"I condemn this attack and any others that kill and injure civilians. Such acts are contrary to the laws of armed conflict, which require the protection of civilians. We extend our condolences to the families of those killed and sympathies to those injured," Brennan said.
"The increase in military hostilities in northern Syria is creating chaos in a fragile region where the threat of [the Islamic State] remains present. We call for immediate de-escalation from all parties and an end to activities that put at risk the significant battlefield gains the Coalition has made against ISIS."
Brennan did not name which party conducted the Thursday drone strike but officials with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria on Saturday alleged the teens were killed by a "Turkish occupation aircraft targeting an educational center for girls."
The strike happened in the village of Shammoka, about 1.2 miles from the base of the international coalition forces.
Instead of choosing a military target, they chose to kill a bunch of girls who were doing good in the world. That's military madness!
The AANES also revealed photographs of the teen girls, born between 2002 and 2004, who were identified as Rania Atta, Zozan Zeidan, Dylan Ezz El-Din and Diana Alo.
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement that 11 other people were injured in the attack.
The Turkish government views the People's Protection Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces as terrorist groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
Mexican authorities arrest former AG over 2014 disappearance of 43 students
By Clyde Hughes
A member of the Latinos en Accion, a group that advocates for rights of Latinos in the United States, reads a poem dedicated to the 43 students that disappeared in Mexico in September 2014, during a protest on the steps of the Eagleton Federal Courthouse in St. Louis on December 3, 2014. File Photo by BIll Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam is the highest-ranking official to be charged in the mass kidnapping of 43 students in 2014 that shocked the country.
The investigation, which has been hounded for its slow pace and charges of a coverup by former President Enrique Peña Nieto, was called a "crime of state" by the investigation point person Alejandro Encinas.
Encinas said the disappearances also involved police, the armed forces and civilian officials along with a drug gang in Guerrero state.
The collusion between the police, armed forces, civilian officials, and a major crime gang just verifies that Mexico is a failed, narco-state.
The students from the rural Ayotzinapa teachers' college had loaded buses to attend a protest rally when they were attacked by police and other gunmen. Murillo Karam, who was investigating the crime in 2015, said the police handed the students over to the Guerreros Unidos gang, which burned their bodies at a dump in the nearby city of Cocula.
Over the years of the investigation, authorities have recovered the bodies of three of the missing students.
"There is no indication the students are alive," Encinas said, according to CNN. "On the contrary, all the testimonies and evidence prove they were cunningly killed and disappeared."
Maureen Meyer, the vice president of programs at the Washington Office on Latin America, said Murillo Karam's arrest Friday was a positive step forward in the long-running investigation.
"[The arrest] is a clear sign of the National Prosecutor's Office's interest in fully investigating the obstruction of justice and human rights violations that occurred and holding officials at all levels accountable for their illegal actions," Meyer said, according to The Washington Post.
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