AFRICOM confirms Green Beret team ambushed in Niger, 3 feared dead

SOFREP ^

[Delta 21]

This one knew they were coming.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks. I will have to unpack my computer to ping it out. Bookmark.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[oldplayer]

Why are we there?

Let’s speculate about possible good reasons; there are some. 1. A limited number of trained specialists might be able to keep an eye on, and disrupt al qaeda from establishing an unbeatable position and training bases in Mali and Niger. 2. We might be able to foster good relations with, and “buck up” forces and groups that are favorable toward us. (Remember, black Africans have been victimized by islamists for centuries and they are tired of it.) 3. Maybe they are there just to hunt and kill islamists for sport or profit, doing good work as they go. 4. Maybe they were there just to do actual recon on the ground that could not be accomplished by aerial surveillance.

Who knows? But, God bless these young Americans and comfort their families.

Oldplayer

[SunkenCiv]

near the Niger-Malian border

Thanks navysealdad.

[Lockbar]

"Dead Special Forces??"

[romanesq]

As long as we stop them entering? Really, like the nation is not porous and subject to operations like on 9-11?

They don’t even check for immigration status now anywhere in California. What does that make the rest of the country, immune?

No, we’re vulnerable anytime they get their act together with the tools to hit us hard. At some point they will again.

[LeeClementineKenny]

If we can't even secure our own borders like you said then we have no business getting involved in foreign conflicts to bypass the problem. It's ridiculous to argue that we should be fighting people all over the world because if we don't kill them over there we will allow them into our country to kill us eventually. We have issues here at home that we should be focusing on instead of policing the world.