Posted on 05/05/2016 4:35:21 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." –John 15:13
A US Navy SEAL has been killed in the Iraqi town of Tel Asqof. He was serving as an advisor to the Kurdish Peshmerga when he was killed during an Islamic State assault "on a Peshmerga position approximately three to five kilometers behind the forward line of troops," according to a Pentagon press statement.
RT reports:
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter says an American service member has been killed in Iraq. A statement from the US-led forces in Iraq added the fatality was "a result of enemy fire."
"It is a combat death, of course. And a very sad loss," the senior official told reporters at a press conference in Germany.
The death of the SEAL was also announced via the Operation Inherent Resolve Twitter account:
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Inherent Resolve
✔ @CJTFOIR
On May 3, 2016, a Coalition service member was killed in northern Iraq as a result of enemy fire. http://ow.ly/4nmsLV
6:28 AM - 3 May 2016
Operation Inherent Resolve Casualty
On May 3, 2016, a Coalition service member was killed in northern Iraq as a result of enemy fire. Further information will be released as appropriate. It is CJTF-OIR policy to defer casualty
inherentresolve.mil
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Theodore Shoebat elaborated on the fight and the death of the SEAL.
"Four hundred Muslims attacked the Christian village of Teleskof in Iraq, and one American Navy SEAL fought them off to protect his fellow Christians," Shoebat wrote.
"This is a story of true valor and honor. He was in the village to assist local Kurdish fighters, but he most definitely was there to defend his brethren against the Muslim heretics. According to reports, the firefight was very intense. The terrorists, all ISIS members, commenced the attack by sending in two suicide bombers who detonated themselves upon entering the village. As the fight was occurring, a Muslim sniper aimed at the SEAL and shot him, and he is now a martyr."
Shoebat also included video footage from a distance of some of the fight that took place in Tel Asqof and commented, "The people who made the film above were a part of Dwekh Nasha, a Christian militia who has been fighting ISIS. We at Shoebat.com actually interviewed the one who trained Dwekh Nawsha and transformed it into a serious fighting force. His name is Brett Felton.
We also reported on Felton back in 2015.
(Watch videos at link)
His efforts have not gone unnoticed. Other Americans' efforts have been vital in helping the Peshmerga against the Islamic State and saving their people, while at the same time living out and presenting the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Peshmerga have stepped in to fill the gap that was left by the cowardly Iraqi military, who left US supplied weapons and Humvees for the Islamic State to capture when they were being overrun.
While Reuters reported that there have been attempts to penetrate Peshmerga lines by vehicles laden with explosives and suicide bombers, The New American reminds us of why this is an issue.
Though Saddam was certainly no humanitarian, the thousands of Christians and other minorities who have fled Mosul and surrounding areas for a safe haven in Kurdistan to escape from ISIS were allowed to live peacefully under his regime.
It is safe to say that, had the United States left Saddam Hussein in place, ISIS would never have gained such dominance in the region.
The interventionist foreign policy that began under George W. Bush was continued under Barack Obama, compounding the problem. As was noted in an article posted by The New American on June 15, 2014: "Over the last week, al-Qaeda-linked jihadists styling themselves the 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIS) receiving weapons and taxpayer funding from the Obama administration in Syria have seized control in wide swaths of Iraq."
Our government continues to spend money and lives in Iraq and Syria as we write, and this latest death of a brave American will surely not be the last.
The May 3rd death of the SEAL is the third combat casualty since Obama unconstitutionally redeployed US troops back into Iraq in 2014.
Odungheap sends troops to die killing Muslims while they build their mosques in America and teach their followers to hate America.
Perfectly stated indignant outrage.
If only the whole country came around and realized this.
RE: “Snide little narcissistic, non-American squats in the dishonored White Hut busily ruining America when he should be in a federal prison! He caused the death of this Navy hero, but he’s busily promoting junk science, economy destroying trade agreements and, in general, promoting the decline of this nation.
Odungheap sends troops to die killing Muslims while they build their mosques in America and teach their followers to hate America.”
What was learned from Vietnam and used in Iraq I & II? The use of overwhelming force. Instead the Interloper in Chief withdraws all of our forces from the region sends in a trickle of “advisors” to combat areas. Yet another liberal disaster in foreign adventures...
And the Muslim in Chief is afraid to release 28 pages of a report detailing complicity in the murder of 3,000 people in NYC...
Barrack Obama is a piece of shit. Elected by the color of his skin, his lack of experience, intelligence, and patriotism is plain for all to see who have open eyes.
First we heard the Navy SEAL was killed in an intense gun battle, then it was changed to ‘ambushed’, and never acknowledged directly by Obama.
He can not and will not formally acknowledge the death of such a hero, which put paid to his repeated lies that “Not one American lives will be sacrificed” sending the small amount of our troops back in ME.
Hundreds of Islamic State Muslims?
Who are they and how did they come about? /s
R.I.P. Charlie Keating. Thank you, sir. Condolences to family and friends.
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We’ve known this for quite some time. How sad that those who reelected him still have the scales upon their eyes and will blindly vote for the criminal or fool.
Where was air support?
I hope this hero dispatched as many as possible.
Was he the only Seal there? And if so why? They should be there in teams with lots of support.
Charles Keating,,,
RIP
EXACTLY! Thanks for raising the question, AndyJackson. BTTT! ("hundreds")
We lost another great American in the queer in chiefs failed policy quagmire.
Everybody told GW that taking out Iraq would destabilize the region. We are now seeing what that looks like.
GW was told by his father and the CFR dudes that it would be a great political success if he would attack Iraq, instead of Saudi Arabia, for a retaliation for 9/11.
Let’s plant the rumor that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, then destroy the infrastructure and chase him down and hang him so he will never recall that he was invited by the US Department of State to attack Kuwait.
The three Bushes: GHW, GW, and Jebbie are the insidious trio that actually paved the way for the Kenyan Prince!
Meanwhile, the Jews and Christians suffer under an Islamic gaggle of insane killers that had been kept at bay by Saddam.
God bless this American hero. RIP
CFR and Trilateral are bulldozing the USA and very few are awake to it, so nobody is stopping it. I am in tears for future generations. We could not save America.
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