U.S. officials retract drone strike's al-Qaeda leader killing claim.
US military officials are retracting their claim that a recent drone strike in Syria killed a senior al-Qaeda figure, following assertions by the dead man's family that he had no ties to terrorists but was a father of 10 tending to his sheep when he was killed by an American missile. Lotfi Hassan Misto, 56, was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in Qorqanya, northwest Syria. The Pentagon has refused to identify publicly who their target was, how the apparent error occurred, whether a legitimate terrorist leader escaped and why some in the Pentagon maintain Misto was a member of al-Qaeda despite his family's denials.