Senior U.S. general ordered Twitter announcement of drone strike on al Qaeda leader that may have killed civilian instead

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Senior U.S. general ordered Twitter announcement of drone strike on al Qaeda leader that may have killed civilian instead

CNN has exclusively learned that a senior U.S. general ordered his command to announce on Twitter that an al Qaeda leader had been targeted in a drone strike without first confirming who had actually been killed. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.

03:19 - Source: CNN

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