Videos U.S. Seized in Yemen Raid Appear to Show Nothing New

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The discovery prompted Central Command to cancel a planned news conference trumpeting the intelligence gathered in the Yemen raid. WASHINGTON ? The military?s Central Command on Friday released a clip from videos seized in this week?s commando raid in Yemen, which American officials called ?do it yourself? lessons for ?aspiring bomb makers? seeking to attack the West. Pentagon officials still insisted that the video?s vintage did not detract from the importance of the intelligence gathered during the raid on Sunday, during which a member of the Navy SEALs and 14 militants were killed. But hours later, Defense Department officials acknowledged that the videos appeared to be 10 years old, similar to training messages by Al Qaeda that were distributed on the internet in 2007. Pentagon officials say they now believe that a number of civilians, including children, were also killed in the raid, which was the first one ordered by President Trump since he took the oath of office.