Posted on 09/11/2016 7:04:21 AM PDT by blueyon
"""Details emerge on why SEAL hostage rescue failed; Obama was golfing, refused to approve it in time"""
Two hostages remain in captivity because President Obama couldn’t be bothered to approve their rescue while he was on vacation, according to defense officials familiar with the details who spoke to Fox News.
On Aug. 10 a team of Navy SEALS was ready to pounce on their target in eastern Afghanistan to rescue two English teachers, U.S. citizen Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, when they were suddenly told to stand down, Ami Newswire reported.
The SEALS could not get the go ahead because Obama didn’t have time, while on vacation at Martha’s vineyard, to give his approval and wanted 24 hours to consider it.
When he finally did give the order a day later the SEALS launched their mission.
Seven enemy combatants were killed, and one injured, in the raid.
“We raised hell in that compound,” a security staffer with knowledge of the attack told Ami Newswire. “We knocked down walls and killed bad guys.”
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Do not interrupt the president’s golf game! Now if this was a couple of ghetto thugs it would have been different. This man won the Noble Peace Prize. The U.S. destroyed the Plane of Jars.
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