From left: Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent, 35; and Defense Department civilian Scott A. Wirtz, 42.
Army/Reuters; Navy/Reuters; Navy/ Reuters)
Posted on 01/18/2019 10:23:41 PM PST by BenLurkin
A Green Beret, a Navy linguist, a former Navy SEAL and a Syrian emigre were the Americans killed in this week’s suicide bombing in Syria, the Defense Department and a defense contractor said on Friday.
The Pentagon named the three current and former service members slain in Wednesday’s attack as Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent; and civilian Scott A. Wirtz, a former Navy SEAL working for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The department did not identify the fourth American killed, a civilian contractor who officials said served as an interpreter. A spokesman for defense contractor Valiant Integrated Services said an employee, Ghadir Taher, was killed in the attack.
From left: Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician Shannon M. Kent, 35; and Defense Department civilian Scott A. Wirtz, 42.
Army/Reuters; Navy/Reuters; Navy/ Reuters)
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Even with all the training in the world, there will be moments of vulnerability.
“With their jobs/background I’m sure they had survival skills. So why are they dead?”
Because despite several hit movies and video games, SEALS and Green berets are not immortal in a combat zone?
If they follow en masse, re don’t allow them in. That “fight them there or here” thing is a false choice.
See also, Iwo Jima, Normandy, Hue city, Mogadishu, Entebbe, etc...
zana amedi @zana_medi 23h23 hours ago
https://twitter.com/zana_medi/status/1086320969470406656
The suspect has been captured according to @syriahr. He allegedly escorted a woman to the restaurant and left before she blew herself up. He is seen running away from the attack scene moments before the explosion in CCTV footage.
See my post #25
And what good were these people doing there?
Under what Congressional authorization? This is what happens when our professional government ignores the constitution.
There is no reason to be in Syria.
Just a guess but this looks very similar to the dining arrangements shown in the movie 13 Hours in Benghazi.
Civilian CIA agents go to local eatery to meet with local contacts while being protected by a couple of our special ops guys.
Or it could be a coincidence that a bomb was set off at the minute some Americans happened to be visiting that restaurant.
If you believe in coincidences.
I’m sure the local Taliban compound the bomb planters ‘worked’ out of has been leveled with no warning to its occupants.
War is Hell yaknow, even when one side refuses to acknowledge it is in one.
don’t allow any of those people streaming over the border now ... oh wait. that doesn’t work either, and lets not forget Canada filled with jihadis and about to make sharia legal. then there are those pesky coastlines ... not a false choice
Trump doesn’t have to let any in.
Not what. Who.
Neocon Globalists, that’s who.
DJT has nothing to do with it and musclemen think long term like after DJT for instance when the Dem president opens the gates for all comers
And there is no Wall along the 3 coasts nor along the Canadian border - lots of places to cross
He looks Turkish to me.
I’m no judge of that. But early reports I heard from Syria said Turk MiT was behind at least one of the attacks.
My bet, the lady who blew her self up, did not know she would go boom. Only that she would carry and drop. That is how it’s done there.
My bet, the lady who blew her self up, did not know she would go boom. Only that she would carry and drop. That is how it’s done there.
CIA is still rogue.
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