Another Screwed Up Rescue ???

Two hostages were killed during a botched rescue attempt in Yemen:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2863215/British-born-U-S-photojournalist-held-hostage-al-Qaeda-killed-failed-rescue-attempt-Yemen.html

Why is the US meddling in Yemen in the first place?

And if you ask me, this sounds more like an intentional murder of two men who possibly had learned something that Uncle Sam did not want the world to know. Had they perhaps discovered that the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki was unjustified?

Can you think of any other reason for trying to "rescue" them one day before one of them was due to be released?

Update: OK, I get it now. One of the hostages was going to be executed the next day. That's a valid reason for a rescue attempt.

Here's a question for you: how much did thi$ co$t?

A U.S. defense official said about 40 U.S. special forces troops, flown in by tilt-rotor CV-22 Osprey aircraft, had advanced to within 100 meters (yards) of the walled compound where the hostages were held before the defenders were alerted and a firefight started.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/06/us-yemen-usa-hostage-idUSKCN0JK06F20141206

Forty SpecOps troops? I'll bet that cost a pretty penny.

Compare that to another pending execution in the US, that of Rodney Reed:

http://kxan.com/2014/11/25/request-for-dna-testing-denied-in-rodney-reed-case/

Reed's request for additional DNA testing, which probably would cost less than $5,000, has been denied.

Why is Reed's life worth less than the lives of the hostages in Yemen? Because he's a convicted murderer? What if that conviction is invalid?

Oh, wait ... I forgot: Reed is black, while the hostages in Yemen were white.

Second update: Aha! The hostages actually were NOT in jeopardy of getting killed ... at least not until the US stuck its filthy nose into the matter. So says The Intercept:

But according to several sources in Yemen, Somers was not in immediate danger prior to the first raid launched to free him last month. Two of those sources also claim that the United States thwarted attempts by a meditator to negotiate his release by paying a ransom.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/11/u-s-scuttled-negotiations-free-american-killed-yemen/

So, I might have been right after all. For some reason, the US did not want this man to be freed.

Top two possible reasons for this?

(1) Maybe the US would rather see hostages die than let their families rescue them. Sick, but well within the depraved boundaries of US diplomatic insanity.

(2) The kidnappings and killings discourage both US and foreign news reporters from going to Yemen and revealing to the world what's really happening there.

I go with reason (2). This whole thing is reminiscent of the alleged raid which killed Osama bin Laden. According to the official story, our brave boys got the drop on Osama (probably the most wanted fugitive in history) but then executed him on the spot. Does this make any sense at all ... unless killing him to shut him up is the only reason they went there in the first place?