U.S. Denies Picking Bombing Targets From Random Twitter Accounts

U.S. Denies Picking Bombing Targets From Random Twitter Accounts

U.S. Central Command, the part of the Pentagon that oversees its wars in the Middle East, denies that the United States military bombed a target in Yemen based on posts on X from an anonymous open source intelligence account which identified it as a Houthi base before the bombing and apologized for their posts after local news reports said civilians died in the bombing.A defense official declined to say whether it was the U.S. that bombed the ta…

Pentagon May Have Drawn on Anonymous Social Media Accounts in Planning Deadly Yemen Attack

Google Earth imagery posted by @Vleckie following U.S. strike. Source: X. For the past several months, the U.S. military has been carrying out a bombing campaign in Yemen ostensibly aimed at forcing the militant group Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, to stop their military intervention on behalf of Palestinians under Israeli assault in Gaza. This campaign has conducted strikes against more than 800 targets, as well as verified claims of c…