Jake Sullivan pressed on Syria drone strike after US walks back claim it killed major al Qaeda leader
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White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan was pressed in an interview Sunday over an alleged civilian casualty – a father of 10 – by U.S. forces in Syria.
"It was President Biden who stood up with Secretary Austin’s guidelines for this administration to ensure there would be accountability and oversight of any potential civilian casualties from counterterrorism strikes," Sullivan said. "So far we do not have evidence to validate the claims being made in Syria. But I am going to withhold any judgment on what actually happened here until the Pentagon’s investigation is complete." Patrick Hauf is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The man killed in the May strike in Syria was Lotfi Hassan Misto, 56, a father of 10 who was tending sheep at the moment of his death, according to The Washington Post. The report, based on interviews with Misto's brother, son and six others who knew him, said he was a poor, former bricklayer who never had ties to terrorism.