Posted on 11/20/2015 7:26:26 AM PST by EBH
Armed jihadists have killed at least three people in a deadly shooting rampage after taking 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali.
Automatic weapons fire was heard on the seventh floor of the 190-room hotel, where it was thought as many as 10 militants roamed through the building, looking for guests and members of staff. 80 hostages have since been freed as special forces entered the building.
Six American nationals have been rescued alive but several other American remain inside with the other 125 guests and 13 employees trapped inside the besieged hotel. The Pentagon revealed that US Special Forces have been assisting the rescue operation in a bid to save the remaining hostages.
Three of the gunmen have been killed and the remaining terrorists have been seen heading to the roof as special forces make their way through the building. The al-Qaeda affiliated group Al-Mourabitoun, based in northern Mali, have claimed responsibility for the hotel attack.
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We have SF in Mali training their Army. It is highly likely that they have some people staying at that hotel.
As Jay Severin frequently stated on his rasio show; "Not all Muslims are terrorists. But all terrorists are Muslims."
The total collapse of the Malian army in the face of a Tuareg rebellion in 2011âand a subsequent coup by junior officers against the democratically-elected governmentâproves an important point.
That U.S. military cooperation with Mali up to 2011âspecifically, efforts by U.S. Army Special Forces to train Malian troopsâwas an overall failure.
Whatâs been missing until now is a thorough analysis of exactly what went wrong. Army Maj. Simon Powelsonâ new masterâs thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School is the most insightful account of U.S.-Malian military cooperation prior to the crisis, which escalated into the capture of half the country by militant groups affiliated with Al Qaeda.
The author, a former Special Operations Forces trainer in Mali, teases lessons from the disaster and argues, quite convincingly, that not everything the Americans did in Mali was a complete bust. Just most of it.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/u-s-special-operations-forces-screwed-up-in-mali-643bc779751c#.g0drynwe1
Whenever I want detailed news about world events or US politics I go to dailymail.co.uk. The US media is worthless except for bird cages.
Very odd how on the day of the Paris attacks, Dufus Butt says ISIS is contained...They embarassed Gilligan!
I suspect they werent ‘just there’. This was all about moving heaven/earth to resurect Chairman O’s waining reputation, to make him look competent, polished, statesman-like etc etc. The guys who did the op likely had quite the flight to get there in record time. He used these guys for nothing more than a crude attempt to elevated himself. This guy never passes a mirror without admiring the wonderful guy he sees in it. Its all about him all the time....
No we have SF already there training the Mali Army. BUT...O would still need to order them to get involved. (?)
Thanks for your quick and excellent reply.
This appears to be another Obama/Clinton failure.
EBH wrote: "Uh? Glad they were there and ordered to take action."
Coincidence?
Last Thursday, hours before the Paris terror attack, Obama declared ISIL contained. Questions were raised about the timing of that declaration wondering if it signaled IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh to pull the trigger.
Yesterday, John Kerry also made a public declaration claiming MSNBC: al qaeda 'neutralized' again, this official declaration, made just hours before the terror attack in Mali this morning raises the same questions. Did Kerry's declaration about 'al qaeda being neutralized' give the signal to the al qaeda terrorists in Mali to pull the trigger too?
Note: the time stamp on the MSNBC video clip illustrates 4:19pm on a youtube sourced link which I viewed at 10:13 am ET on 11/20/2015, suggesting the MSNBC report is at least a day old.
Is this pattern of official declarations about the strength of enemy combatants a simple coincidence or evidence of Obama and Kerry being played as dupes/puppets by Muslim Brotherhood advisors within their administration or, even worse, are they willingly complicit?
Travis McGee has been telling us the simple and clear answer to that question since Stevens and others were slaughtered by Islamic Jihadists.
See my post #19,
You are not the only one starting to notice these coincidences.
Either they are telegraphing actions to the terror related groups or the terrorists are just making sure 0bama looks like a fool...
Special Forces there...but not for Stevens? Weird.
Spec Forces have been in Africa for months, if not years. Not a ton of them, but they have been helping against Boco Harum and the other idiots running around in old French territory.
Yup! Another failure by a patriotic American’s standard.
But darn it they sure managed to turn over half of Mali to al-queda?
Probably black or muslim or he REALLY wants the Syrian terrorists here so did this to mitigate anger over that. It is so far from his norml behavior, I wonder if someone else decided to do?
Hmm wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact Mali is in Africa? Naw that would be “Racist” on Obama’s part.
And WHO is “speaking English” and asking people to recite the Koran?
see post and link at #23
Mali collapsed ...half the country is al-queda now.
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