Navy SEALs raid Somalia pirate compound, free hostages

Boston Herald via AP ^ | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | AP

[GQuagmire]

MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Barack Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.

[GQuagmire]

"pirate source"

For some reason that makes me laugh

[bonfire]

God bless our Seals.

[Jonty30]

And odds are the 32 year-old woman became a -————.

[maddog55]

Concur on the SEALS but why are we providing military support to rescue humanitarians (idiots) who go to these shxt holes of the world?

[driftdiver]

Why? To help BO reelection campaign.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

...mattress cover.

[Hot Tabasco]

[ari-freedom]

Sounds like Tears of the Sun

[Rudder]

...Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech.

What's Obama got to do with it?

[bonfire]

BO’s poll numbers.

Let’s see if he outs their identities again.

[SkyPilot]

Navy SEALs raid Somalia pirate Muslim compound, free hostages

There...corrected it.

[R. Scott]

There are now 9 good Muslim pirates.

[Sacajaweau]

Something doesn’t sound right about this and advertising it makes the whole affair totally illogical.

[Doogle]

"...that's 648 more virgins added to 3,147,543,761....even the stooopidest muslim has to have his doubts"

[Sacajaweau]

I just read an article. They hardly needed seals for this job. The captors were/are street hoods...a gang. This was a job for the local militia.

The bad dudes were apparently on drugs and fell asleep.

I simply do not believe this was carried out by seals. If it was, it was a stupid risk of our guys.

[GQuagmire]

You don’t practice against first stringers. You practice against the benchwarmers. Even SEAL’s need practice...

[mware]

The bad dudes were apparently on drugs and fell asleep.

They now have a permanent dirt nap.

[Sacajaweau]

If you think I'm going to risk 9 of my best for 2 jackasses being held by a street gang when it's a job for the local police, you're nuts.

This simply shouldn't have been a military operation.

[BuffaloJack]

> This simply shouldn’t have been a military operation.

It wasn’t. It was a public relations operation to boost Hussein’s popularity. He couldn’t afford for it to go wrong, so he used SEALs, because, “When it absolutely, positively must be killed or blown up overnight: Navy SEALs”.

[Chode]

ping