The move by U.S. officials comes after the slain man’s family and others who knew him claimed that the father of 10, a former bricklayer, had no ties to terrorism and was tending to his sheep when he was hit by a Hellfire missile in Syria.

U.S. officials claimed shortly after the strike that the Predator drone had taken out a “senior Al Qaeda leader” — even though they did not provide proof or name the suspect.

The Washington Post reported that 56-year-old Lotfi Hassan Misto was the person killed in the strike.

“We are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official,” a U.S. official told the Post.

Another U.S. official added, “though we believe the strike did not kill the original target, we believe the person to be al-Qaeda.”

Wow, this is the closest thing I've seen to 'life is a satire of itself' in action.

A hellfire missile onto a single guy tending to his sheep with zero ties to anything...and they even decided to just lie and pretend he was someone important?

Why are they so inept? It is a fucking SHEEP HERDER. It isn't like he was near the target and collateral damage, they picked him out, aimed for him and threw millions of dollars of hardware to kill him and his sheep.