Posted on 10/07/2013 3:32:36 PM PDT by kristinn
The team of less than two dozen Navy SEALs from Seal Team 6 huddled in one fast boat and headed toward the Somali shoreline under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Three more small boats with additional SEALs flanked the assault team’s craft, to provide back-up and assist with the planned extraction of an al Shabaab warlord named Ikrima.
According to multiple U.S. military sources, the lead boat landed, and the assault team hit the beach near the Southern Somali town of Barawe, headed for the fortified seaside compound of their target. U.S. intelligence had determined that Ikrima, one of two terror suspects targeted by the military in simultaneous raids thousands of miles apart this weekend, planned the terror group’s operations outside of Somalia.
The SEALs entered the compound and took the positions they had selected based on the intelligence collected in advance of the raid.
Then a lone al Shabaab fighter walked out into plain view, smoked a cigarette, and went back inside, one source familiar with the details of the raid said. The fighter played it cool, and gave no indication that he had spotted the SEALs. But he came back out shooting, firing rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle.
Soon the American commandos were under siege from the warlord’s well-armed fighters. Gunfire swept toward their positions and grenades began to rain down, multiple military sources said.
Several of the SEALs could see Ikrima through the windows of the compound, but couldn’t get to him. The SEALs continued to take fire while trying to find a way to get closer to their target.
And then the children came into the pictures on their scopes.
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I do put the blame where it belongs, the Commander in Chief
ahh so you have a personal problem with them. what did they embarrass you sometime?
Sounds like the children were in place and ready to mix with the waiting Somali defenders. It was a trap!
TrentoVision - SPECIAL - Billy & Karen Vaughn - SEAL Team 6
Where to start? Chilling video. The host goes on a bit, starts getting good about 15 minutes in. Parents of fallen Seal Team 6 member discussing and trying to bring to light the TREASONOUS ROI (rules of engagement) foisted on our military by the Obama administration.
Remember when we had normal military and special forces raids that were kept secret, not for public consumption? Never in the history of the United States military has another president compromised military operations and put team members in danger like this no-nothng POS that calls himself president.
Value my ass. We would get him and get him lawyered up. You want to arrest him, do it on your own dime.”
My thoughts exactly! We can't use advanced interrogation techniques, so how are we going to get them to cooperate? Invite them to tea? This thing smells.
Obama may or may not have set up the Seals. I don't put anything past him and his admin. At the very least they sent them on a mission that could have been carried out with Obama’s drones. If they wanted it to be a success, it was to make it look like Obama was doing something. I do not believe it was the value of the target.
One would think that this decision should have been made before deploying our team in the first place.
LOL! Fiction can be as Exclusive as you want it to be!!
Almost sounds like the administration is slowing trying to wipe out SEAL team 6 to hide what happened in the Bin Laden Raid.
Closing the loop.
If you really have that experience then you should know better then to bad mouth service members in harms way from your arm chair.
Instead you are siding with Obama and NBC to ridicule young men putting their lives at risk for this country.
You don’t do that in public. Any problems are addressed privately.
Only person embarrassing himself is you. Do you have service in your past or are you content to be a keyboard commando?
Oh I have service experience and am a disabled vet. Of course I’m not the hero you are so I don’t insult other Americans in the line of fire.
You’ve broken the faith chainmail. shame on you, IF you have 29 years it was as a REMF.
Maybe we could go find some WWII veterans for you to insult too. I bet you’d like that.
Think about how many traitorous scum we have in the Obama regime that hate the military, hate veterans, hate US citizens, hate Christians, and hate America. Secrets are sold and delivered to our enemies. Treason such as this has consequences and often gets the results these pigs seek.
Hurting and killing Americans is what Bo does.
“Service experience” “disabled vet” Didn’t say combat vet, didja? I am a combat vet and have holes in my body to prove it. I also spent those 28 years training and leading a couple of generations of combat leaders and developing new technologies, tactics and doctrine.
Nobody does any of us any favors by candy-coating failure. If you are or weren’t professional enough to raise your voice when things went wrong, then you weren’t a leader, you were a cheerleader.
And the Commander in Chief makes his decision based on the advice of his commanders in the field and his joint chiefs of staff. They tell him their advice and their best decisions and he gives the go ahead based on that. I know you know this.
I don’t see a need to justify myself to someone choosing to insult and attack Americans in harms way following orders.
Thats you.
You’re a puke.
See? Great lip service about “supporting vets” but when a real vet disagrees with you, the childish name-calling starts.
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