Posted on 12/17/2015 10:23:23 PM PST by Mariner
Libya’s air force said in a Facebook post that 20 US commandoes arrived at Wattiya airbase and disembarked “in combat readiness,†only to be told to leave. Pentagon sources confirmed the US had sent a special forces unit to Libya as part of a mission.
The Libyan Air Force said the 20 soldiers arrived at the airbase on Monday, but left soon after local commanders asked them to go because they had no right to be at the base “without prior coordination with protection force base.â€
The Libyan air force published a Facebook post on Wednesday which included photographs of the special forces unit. It noted the 20 soldiers had disembarked “in combat readiness wearing bullet proof jackets, advanced weapons, silencers, handguns, night vision devices and GPS devices.â€
When questioned by Libyan soldiers, the American troops said they were “in coordination with other members of the Libyan army,†the Libyan Air Force said. The Libyans were unconvinced.
“The response from your heroic army stationed at Wattiya base was to tell them to depart immediately and the group left, keeping their equipment with them,†the post added.
The photographs show three men armed with assault rifles, boarding a blue-and-white-striped passenger plane and driving a yellow dune buggy.
Pentagon sources confirmed to NBC News that the special forces unit was part of a mission sent this week, but it was unclear if the soldiers had left the country. Commandoes have been “in and out of Libya†for “some time now,†unnamed US officials told NBC, but the outlet reported they were there “purely to advise Libyan forces rather than conduct combat operations or training.â€
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Bizarre
0bama is absolutely clueless and Congress is MIA.
Who the hell is running our government? They make this nation look like we’re all fools.
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No. It only confirms that the Obama administration is filled with fools. The majority of Americans and most of the countries of the world think so.
If this is legit, I have no idea about the mission objective or the plan. Zip. Based on that, their appearance means little other than the opportunity to speculate.
It’s worse than what was reported.
SOCOM Ping
Way to go wit the teaser Hombre.
Please tell - do.
Enquiring minds want to know ... and all that.
Libya : the great success of Hillary Clintoon and Barack Obama
Only in an Obama administration can a military deployment come off like an SNL skit.
Pull them out and bring them home. Let the Arabs sort out their own issues.
Maybe it was a private group hunting for Kadaffy’s (sp) gold.
Obama is NOT “clueless” damnit! This is all part of his fundamental transformation.
Russia Today??
Is this Sorcha Faal?
I’ve seen almost identical muzzles on M-Forgeries in Cabela’s catalog.
Operators posing for a group shot like that?
That’s a good point.
Looks like the guy on the far right has an M203 grenade launcher under that M-4......pretty fancy stuff you can’t just get anywhere....
I post the same thing over and over. It seems many Freepers are clueless. Weird.
As for the pic. Not special ops. No full beards. :)
That was what set my Spidey-Sense a tinglin’.
I don’t claim to know a whole lot about Spec Ops.
But I do know that they shy from the camera as much as possible.
The *real* operators make too many hard core enemies to be doing “Hi, Mom!” photo ops.
(And they really look kinda rag-tag. Could be a budget crunch I guess... Bring your own flannel shirt?)
it's getting HE 40mm rounds for it that is difficult.
“what if they had a war and nobody came?”
now it is “what if they had a war and you weren’t invited?”
Obama is a cagy one....... he deploys troops where there aren’t needed and won’t be killed
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