Abu Sayyaf raid required U.S. troops to use ‘hand to hand’ combat

washingtontimes ^ | May 16, 2015 | Kellan Howell

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U.S. Special Operations Forces had to fight “hand to hand” in Friday night’s raid that killed the Islamic State terrorist group senior commander Abu Sayyaf, several defense officials told The Daily Beast Saturday.

Troops from the U.S. Army Delta Force landed near a multi-story building with Ospreys and Blackhawks and were met with resistance when they entered, including “hand to hand” combat, one official told The Daily Beast.

There was some resistance from armed guards and from the terrorist commander himself, but the troops were well prepared to handle that, another official said.

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Some of the Islamic State fighters hid behind women, using them as human shields. The U.S. troops had to “literally shoot around” the human shields to kill the fighters,...

Real tough guys until braver men show up, then they cower and run like the vermin they are.

[Perdogg]

It is great to hear the Delta Force is still around.

[Delta 21]

As long as we dont put “boots on the ground”.

[Farmer Dean]

Delta force is real good at hand to hand combat.They may even prefer it.

[VanShuyten]

About the only thing I don’t like about this is the White House emphasizing that Obama “freed the slaves”, the enslaved Yazidhi woman.

Not that he cared all that much about them while they were being enslaved.

[Chickensoup]

shoot through them, for Pete’s sake. These women are NOT your friends.

[P-Marlowe]

Isn’t this the kind of mission that is supposed to be under the radar?

Somebody decided to brag up the results. My guess is that it was leaked to make Obama look like a hero.

Now everyone on the planet knows we have special forces in Syria. Now they will be on the lookout.

[BenLurkin]

Muslims

[SandRat]

Give them A 44 mag colostomy.

[BenLurkin]

Sayyaf's Wife put up a particularly tough fight:

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep.

[BenLurkin]

Ospreys (plural) and Blackhawks (plural)

So at least 100 or so men?

[EEGator]

What is Brett Favre doing?

[PROCON]

My guess is that it was leaked to make Obama look like a hero.

Of course, everything is about him.

I hear children all over America singing new verses of:

"Barack Hussein Obama, ummm, ummm, ummmmm".

[Lorianne]

Oh wonderful. We’re over there doing the Muslims dirty work for them ... again.

Yeah!

[Lorianne]

Yep this was 100% done to make Obama look like he’s a kick-ass president. He was egged on by many conservatives calling him a coward if he didn’t get over there and kick some ass.

Looks like they got what they wanted.

We should not be over there doing the scut work for Muslims. Let them take care of their own problems for a change.

[mosaicwolf]

"It is great to hear the Delta Force is still around."

They have always been around. They just don't go on TV and then on to Hollywood for a movie script. "Quiet Professionals" De Oppresso Liber

[jjotto]

Obama padme hum,
Obama padme hum,
Obama padme hum...

[rellimpank]

—yep—while I suspect my byline applies to this type of media info ,while “hand-to-hand”combat may be fine in action movies, three shot bursts (or more if called for) from firearms and high explosives are the appropriate solution to military problems-—

[Iron Munro]

Remember back in 2012 when that great military historian and strategist, Barack Obama, pointed out how bayonets were an anachronism?

“We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.”

Then Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling decided to eliminate bayonet traininbg for the army.