{"id":47627,"date":"2015-04-24T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=47627"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:04:59","slug":"obama-says-he-takes-full-responsibility-for-hostage-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/24\/obama-says-he-takes-full-responsibility-for-hostage-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama says he takes full responsibility for hostage deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29384\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29384\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg\" alt=\"US President Barack Obama during an official meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in Washington, DC  (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/shutterstock_218487058-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Barack Obama (Mykhaylo Palinchak \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama said Thursday he takes &#8220;full responsibility&#8221; for a U.S. counterterrorism mission that inadvertently killed an American and an Italian held hostage by al-Qaida.<\/p>\n<p>He defended the legality of the January drone strike against an al-Qaida compound and said there had been no information suggesting the hostages were at that location.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clindamycin online <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryanimal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/clindamycin.html\">https:\/\/montgomeryanimal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/clindamycin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the intelligence that we had obtained at the time, including hundreds of hours of surveillance, we believed that this was an al-Qaida compound, that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible,&#8221; Obama said in remarks from the White House. &#8220;And we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous members of al-Qaida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the al-Qaida operatives believed killed in the strike was American Ahmed Farouq, who the White House says was an al-Qaida leader. 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