Posted on 02/02/2017 7:57:01 AM PST by rktman
U.S. Navy SEALs knew al-Qaida terrorists were alerted to their impending raid deep inside Yemen Saturday, but continued the operation anyway.
U.S. officials say they are unsure how the terrorist group figured out the upcoming raid. Local tribal elders speculated that the group was suspicious because U.S. drones were flying lower than normal, and emitting audible engine noise.
As the terrorists prepared for the SEALs’ arrival, the U.S. intercepted their communications. The SEALs were a mere five miles away and chose to press on, despite knowing it would be a bloody firefight.
“They kind of knew they were screwed from the beginning,” a former SEAL Team 6 member told The New York Times.
When the SEALs arrived they were engaged in a nearly 50-minute firefight, which killed one U.S. service member and injured six others. The SEALs also encountered a highly unusual situation.
“Several women in the compound immediately, ran to pre-established positions — as though they had trained to be ready, and trained to be combatants — and engaged with us,” according to Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis. Davis elaborated that this is the first known time to the U.S. military that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula employed women in an attack.
A $75 million MV-22 Osprey also experienced a “hard landing” and had to be destroyed by a follow up U.S. airstrike to protect proprietary technology.
“Almost everything went wrong,” a U.S. defense official told NBC News after the operation.
The Pentagon confirmed late Wednesday that civilians were killed in the raid, saying, “[AQAP] has a horrifying history of hiding women and children within militant operating areas and terrorist camps, and continuously shows a callous disregard for innocent lives.” One of the civilians who may have been killed is the 8-year-old daughter of former al-Qaida leader Anwar Al-Awlaki.
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If the timing and place of this attack was leaked, let the Seal Team survivors deal with the leakers.
Not kill them, just let the leakers know that they will be exposed to the world and watched by current and past military people.
I gotta bridge....
Yeah I’m pretty sure 0bama wanted this to happen and had something to do with it being shared with the enemy. I’m pretty sure there are some hollywood types who are happy about it too.
Trump is a very quick study. He’s got this.
Yes, if the Trump Administration can find a mole in the system.....................
Would I put it past loyalists to the previous administration to have let information get out? Hmmmmm.......
Varney mentioned the same thing this morning.
I would not be surprised if the past administration was hoping it would go terribly wrong just to place blame on the current administration.
Fake news.
Obama tipped them off.
Did the SEALs fail the planned mission? The article implies it.
The NY Times piece was lengthy. When was the last time anyone remembers them doing a detailed piece on one of Obama’s raids when there was a death to an American soldier and civilians were killed?
Wait, did Obama’s people leak this raid to the terrorists?
Bowbama gave them the heads up? (tinfoil hat for me?)
There’s a lot of Obama’s people still in the government and they’re fighting a rear guard action on his behalf.If people inside the government tipped off the terrorists then it’s time to organize the firing squads.(I’m available nights and weekends.)
Uh huh...
I think we should precede every raid with a little “softening up” by a B-52 Wing.
Craterize a square mile of Injun Country every time and it’ll start having an effect.
Yeah, Stuart gave me a call for my input. LOL!
It’s tragic that a SEAL lost his life. It is pathetic to think the information on locations and possible targets could have been feed to the Terrorists by people Like Valarie Jarrett or the Head of the CIA-Brennen.
I hope that all information that was passed on from Obama’s NSC is hence forth considered as compromised Intel.
I think it’s on I-tunes someplace. We know what chatterboxes those crazy seals are. Right?
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