White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mocked the idea that the US administration may provide journalists inaccurate information about its military operations abroad.
When asked if Washington would be giving any proof that the target of a US commando raid in Syria blew himself up along with members of his family, Psaki asked whether skeptics would rather trust terrorists.
She was confronted by a journalist on Air Force One over an account of events that President Joe Biden gave to the public.
Speaking a few hours after the raid was confirmed by the Pentagon, the president said Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), detonated a suicide vest when his compund in northwestern Syria was assaulted by US forces.
“As our troops approached to capture the terrorist, in a final act of desperate cowardice, with no regard to the lives of his own family or others in the building, he chose to blow himself up,” Biden said.
Sources on the ground in the border town of Atmeh, where the nighttime US operation took place, told the media that at least 12 civilians were killed. UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, confirmed six deaths of minors in the area.
NPR White House Correspondent Ayesha Rascoe asked Psaki on Thursday whether the US would be releasing any evidence to support its account of what had happened in Syria. “There may be people that are skeptical of the events that took place and what happened to the civilians,” she pointed out.
The official appeared to find the idea ridiculous, reframing the question as if skeptics were siding with IS against the US.
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