The situation might be far more heinous.
The assets which might be scrounged from the Annex probably had the technical constraints described from 1-2 decade old technology. National intel assets might not be so primitive.
While generally it is the target that is painted when lazed, it isn’t inconceivable that more advanced technologies at the national level might be able to trace both the paintor and the paintee.
Dropping mortars at night on moving targets isn’t easy, unless maybe 120mm rounds. If this is a coordinated black op company sized attack, with say 2 platoons of politically motivated militants for screening and canon fodder, and one wpns plt for supporting arms and one maneuver element, then they likely had something like a knee mortar or a 60mm mortar or a Russian variant. Well trained infantry from Korean War era could place mortar rounds with correction with about 5ft accuracy at say 1000yds, but most mortar men in daylight and registered fires at preplanned targets might have 30yd accuracies and lesser trained 3rd world militias can be off by a couple 100 yds of their aiming points. At nighttime, figure 50yd accuracy for militias.
I don’t know what these guys have in their arsenals, but if they were lazing their targets, that means they have line of sight on their targets and their targets can also acquiesce them by direct observation, though in darkness.
If weapon platforms weren’t aloft for them to synch their laze, they might have lazed to provide national assets target ID for other platforms to acquiesce.
On the other hand, in the world of BlackOps, and at national level resources, once they paint the target, they themselves might be painting themselves to national resources. If a weapons platform was aloft, whoever operated the controls might also have been directed to eliminate either as a target.
If the controlling authority was cold enough to tell them to stand down as they were acquiesced by mortar fire, it also might be cold enough to target the heroes to control the situation. IMHO, it would be far easier a shot for national resources to take out the ex-SEALS than for some militant band of Muslims with scrounged weapons and zeal to take them out with mortars at night, while on the move, and changing scenarios from their original plan.
Of course this is all conjecture,..worlds of possible worlds, ..theoretical conspiracy theory,...we’ll probably will never know all of it, but it would be nice to know why the people are never informed of the wars our nation is leading even when they are supposedly are being phased out.
Very interesting, especially in view that the FBI “couldn’t get there” for about a month, even though US journalists could. Was the FBI kept away until all evidence of how the Seals died was obliterated?