Trump blames Obama for 2004 death of Captain Khan
The campaign of US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says the policies of President Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton led to the death of Army Captain Humayun Khan, despite the fact that Khan died in June 2004.
“It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost his life,” Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson said in an interview Tuesday with CNN.
Khan, a Muslim American soldier, was killed in Iraq during the first term of Republican President George W. Bush, while Obama was still a state senator in Illinois.
Humayun Khan, 27, was killed in a car bombing attack in Iraq and was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
Khan is the son of Khizr Khan, who last week blasted Trump as unpatriotic and selfish in a speech at the Democratic National Convention over the billionaire’s statements against immigrants and Muslims.
Trump responded, in part, by suggesting that Ghazala Khan, the mother of the soldier, was silent during her husband’s speech at the DNC because she was not “allowed” to speak.
Trump’s comments attracted rebuke from both sides of the aisle and intensified calls for Republican leaders to distance themselves from the White House contender.
On Sunday, Trump’s vice presidential nominee, tried to calm down the situation by saying that both he and Trump believe Khan “is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American.”
However, he also blamed Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Clinton for the “disastrous decisions” that led to the death of Captain Humayun Khan in Iraq.
On Tuesday, Trump said he does not regret his comments on the family of Khan. "I don’t regret anything."
"I said nice things about the son and I feel that very strongly but of course I was hit very hard from the stage and you know it’s just one of those things but no I don’t regret anything,” he said.
In March 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding WMDs; but no such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq.
More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion, and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.
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