WASHINGTON
U.S. releases dated footage
The U.S. military on Friday released a short clip from training videos seized in last weekend’s Yemen raid, but the images appear to be vintage al-Qaida footage that was first made public a decade ago. U.S. Central Command said the clip, which is a bit longer than a minute, came from five longer videos found on a computer taken from the al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula compound that special operations forces raided. They said it is an example of the type of threat that AQAP fighters represent to the U.S. and other western nations. The images are similar to al-Qaida training footage released on the internet in 2007. Bomb-making has long been a staple of the insurgent group’s instructional videos, and do-it-yourself footage can quickly and easily be found.
Protesters’ charges dropped
Prosecutors have dropped felony rioting charges against five more people who were arrested after protesters broke windows and torched a limousine in Washington on Inauguration Day. That brings the total number of dropped cases to nine. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia made the announcement in a statement Friday.
Conway says she misspoke
A top aide to President Donald Trump said Friday she misspoke when she cited a 2011 “massacre” in Kentucky that never happened. A day earlier, during an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Kellyanne Conway defended Trump’s temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations by saying that former President Barack Obama instituted a similar policy for Iraqi refugees in 2011. “President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre,” Conway said. “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.” It didn’t happen. Conway tweeted Friday morning that she meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists” during the interview.
ST. LOUIS
Ferguson to pay $3 million
Ferguson, Mo., has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun and will pay the money. A federal judge in St. Louis on Wednesday deferred his approval of the settlement until March 1. The settlement is between Jason Moore’s wife, mother and son and the St. Louis suburb, ex-officer Brian Kaminski and the former police chief. It’s unclear why the city agreed to settle for the same amount as what jurors awarded Moore’s family in November.
Compiled from wire reports