Posted on 02/12/2015 11:48:16 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
WASHINGTON — As an October chill fell on the mountain passes that separate the militant havens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a small team of Afghan intelligence commandos and American Special Operations forces descended on a village where they believed a leader of Al Qaeda was hiding.
That night the Afghans and Americans got their man, Abu Bara al-Kuwaiti. They also came away with what officials from both countries say was an even bigger prize: a laptop computer and files detailing Qaeda operations on both sides of the border.
American military officials said the intelligence seized in the raid was possibly as significant as the information found in the computer and documents of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after members of the Navy SEALs killed him in 2011.
In the months since, the trove of intelligence has helped fuel a significant increase in night raids by American Special Operations forces and Afghan intelligence commandos, Afghan and American officials said. . .
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Why are these idiots talking about this ?
Leaks to distract from ISIL, Yemen, Libya, and myriad other Obammy admin failures.
nobody trusts anything our current regime says or does
(not a prescription for winning much of anything)
Intel has a sell-by date. Whatever they got probably got used up and is now expired.
And unemployment is 5%.
And Obamacare is working.
And just LOOK at these rolling hills of Green Shoots.
Uh-huh....
If this happened in October, chances are they've used most of the solid data already, and may be hoping to get a couple more rabbits to jump...
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