--- title: Report: No New Intelligence Has Yet Emerged From Yemen Raid description: Officials tell NBC News that they've seen no evidence of significant intelligence gathered during a deadly raid in Yemen last month canonical: https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/ author: Feliz Solomon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T06:40:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:33:58.709Z article:section: Politics og:title: No New Intelligence Has Yet Emerged From Yemen Raid: Report og:description: Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens died during the raid as well as dozens of civilians, including children og:url: https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta32141cb866f8b70/6988bc4c0a4a2291a09cd193/gettyimages-633379642.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No New Intelligence Has Yet Emerged From Yemen Raid: Report twitter:description: Navy SEAL William "Ryan" Owens died during the raid as well as dozens of civilians, including children twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta32141cb866f8b70/6988bc4c0a4a2291a09cd193/gettyimages-633379642.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Officials Have Yet to See Intelligence Gained in Deadly Yemen Raid, Report Says > Sponsored content. 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Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Feb 28, 2017 6:40 AM UTC U.S. officials claim that [no significant intelligence](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/yemen-seal-raid-yielded-no-significant-intelligence-say-officials-n726451) has yet been revealed after a Special Forces raid in Yemen last month that turned into a chaotic firefight, taking the life of one Navy SEAL and possibly dozens of civilians, including children. The botched mission on Jan. 29, authorized by President Donald Trump just days after his inauguration, had been in the works for months, but former President Barack Obama declined to carry it out under his term, NBC News reports. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer [told reporters](http://time.com/4659248/yemen-raid-trump-pentagon-al-qaeda/) in early February that the U.S. had acquired an “unbelievable amount of intelligence that will prevent the potential deaths or attacks on American soil.” An NBC News exclusive report, however, said that while the [White House](http://time.com/4659248/yemen-raid-trump-pentagon-al-qaeda/) and the Pentagon have both claimed the raid was a success, several senior officials who spoke with the network have seen no evidence of valuable intelligence. Officials briefed on the matter told NBC that the mission’s aim was likely to kill or capture one or more militants associated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). According to NBC, Pentagon officials have said that “actionable intelligence” was collected during the operation, but news outlets including NBC and CNN report that the agency has to date released only one video clip that later proved to be nearly a decade old and already publicly available. **_Read more:_** [_Donald Trump Is About to Inherit These Four Middle East Headaches_](http://time.com/4611414/donald-trump-middle-east-policy/) Officials [said at the time ](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-videos/)that the video was made public to demonstrate that materials obtained during the raid were valuable. The video was quickly removed after it was found to be obsolete, and a Pentagon official said the Central Command was fully responsibility for its release. Last month, a joint force of Navy SEALS and elite forces from the United Arab Emirates reportedly came under heavy fire during the mission. Subsequent [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/world/middleeast/donald-trump-yemen-commando-raid-questions.html) suggested that militants used civilians as human shields when the U.S.-led troops fired back, and that some women then took up arms and joined the fight. Chief Petty Officer [William “Ryan” Owens](http://time.com/4652800/yemen-raid-al-qaeda-american-killed/) of SEAL Team 6, died during the raid, and the Pentagon [acknowledged](http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/1068267/us-central-command-statement-on-yemen-raid/) that several civilians were likely killed in the crossfire. A report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism said the [casualties totaled 25](https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-02-09/nine-young-children-killed-the-full-details-of-botched-us-raid-in-yemen), including nine children, a number that has not been disputed by the Pentagon. According to USA Today, [three military probes](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/27/three-probes-opened-into-seals-death-raid-controversial-yemen-raid/98488108/) are now underway to address some of the questions surrounding the raid; Owens’ death, civilian casualties and the loss of a valuable Osprey aircraft. \[[_NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/bill-cosby-scandal/bill-cosby-s-jurors-likely-be-philly-not-suburbs-n726236)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/"},"headline":"Officials Have Yet to See Intelligence Gained in Deadly Yemen Raid, Report Says","datePublished":"2017-02-28T06:40:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:33:58.709Z","description":"The White House and the Pentagon say the mission was a \"success\"","url":"https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/","keywords":["intelligence","Military","Yemen","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta32141cb866f8b70/6988bc4c0a4a2291a09cd193/gettyimages-633379642.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta32141cb866f8b70/6988bc4c0a4a2291a09cd193/gettyimages-633379642.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP","creditText":"Brendan Smialowski—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4685188/yemen-raid-intelligence-owens-trump/","name":"Officials Have Yet to See Intelligence Gained in Deadly Yemen Raid, Report Says"}}]}] ```