If this was a team of 6-7 MAM’s, achieving total surprise, with firepower significantly more that the rent-a-cops at the gates, they may have succeeded in at least one goal: displaying their tenacity and their ability to strike in CONUS once again
remember the first rule of counter-insurgency warfare, as proven in the Malay insurgency: Never allow the enemy the opportunity to overwhelm law enforcement before reinforcements arrive. These guys did their homework