[Timber Rattler]

This was the poorly planned cluster fark raid that got 44 Filipino policemen killed back in January.

[AU72]

All these senior officers being cashiered are having the desired effect.

[Tijeras_Slim]

U.S. counterterrorism personnel

Any more specifics?

[Rainier1789]

Perhaps one of the sensitive people in the chain of command had the thoughtful idea to inform a Respected Muslim Leader beforehand that the raid was not about their Great Religion of Peace.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Success has a thousand fathers.

Failure just has Barry Obama.

[McGruff]

The FBI had no prior knowledge of a police raid in the Philippines last Sunday to arrest wanted militants that went awry and left 44 police dead, an FBI spokesman told Reuters on Saturday.

Philippine media had reported that the FBI helped orchestrate the raid, which targeted Zulkifli bin Hir, an Islamic militant on the U.S. law enforcement agency’s list of “most wanted terrorists.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/31/us-philippines-rebels-fbi-idUSKBN0L40UX20150131

Odd.

[molson209]

Americans went so far as to order a Philippine army general to call in artillery fire

what, no Rockets for the Red Glare

[DCBryan1]

We really whipped them in 2003 during Operation Freedom Eagle. I learned that CIA SAD/SOG+Devgru+Phillipino Rangers are the only sure way to take out the trash around Zamboanga and Mindanao areas without resorting to tactical nukes or 16” shells from a “should-be” reactivated Iowa Class BB.

[McGruff]

One of the Americans went so far as to order a Philippine army general to call in artillery fire, though the general angrily refused,

Was John McCain there?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

One of the targets of the raid, Zulkifli bin Hir, a leader of a Southeast Asian militant network affiliated with al-Qaida, was killed.

"Bungled"???

[McGruff]

One of the Americans went so far as to order a Philippine army general to call in artillery fire, though the general angrily refused

Kinda sounds like the Incident at Pristina airport

[xone]

From the article: 'The military fired white phosphorous into the hilly area around 6 pm shortly before the Army extracted them to safety. White phosphorous creates a loud bang that can scare away enemies, but doesn’t kill. It only serves as a marker before the explosives are fired."

That is news.