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SEAL Team 6 Members Fought Female Fighters in Yemen Raid
Military.com ^ | January 30, 2017 | Richard Sisk

Posted on 02/04/2017 4:13:24 AM PST by Makana

SEALTeam 6 fought and killed female fighters of an al-Qaida affiliate in the raid Saturday in Yemen in which a team member was killed, three were wounded and three injured, the Pentagon said Monday.

"There were a lot of female combatants that were a part of this," Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said of the firefight in the raid Saturday, which the Defense Department and White House said killed at least 14 enemy fighters. "Some of those enem[ies] killed in action were female."

Davis said the SEALs saw the women running to fighting positions as the team approached an enemy compound in Yemen's interior.

The main al-Qaida group generally limits women to support roles and suicide attacks, but AQAP reportedly has put women through training for combat.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: seal; sealteam6; yemen
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Apologies if this has been posted. The latest stories about the child being killed prompted my searching for the back story.
1 posted on 02/04/2017 4:13:24 AM PST by Makana
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To: Makana

Here’s hoping that they didn’t hesitate for a nanosecond.


2 posted on 02/04/2017 4:15:08 AM PST by tomkat (aka PAtriot)
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To: tomkat

Yeh....lets allow women and children refugees in no questions asked ‘cause they’re safe. (Sarcastic)


3 posted on 02/04/2017 4:20:32 AM PST by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: tomkat

Capture the ugliest and put her in Guantanamo.


4 posted on 02/04/2017 4:21:42 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Makana

Since when have Spec Ops become hollywierd stars?

I thank God the USMC hasn’t fallen for the ‘let’s make a movie and bring it to the wide screen on the nightly propaganda hour’.


5 posted on 02/04/2017 4:23:55 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: Makana

Islamoscum.

Eradicate them all.


6 posted on 02/04/2017 4:24:56 AM PST by bryan999
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To: Makana

I would wager that all rounds fired were narrower then a thumb so no problem there:

very Halal..?


7 posted on 02/04/2017 4:31:32 AM PST by gaijin
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Capture the ugliest and put her in Guantanamo”

She is going to have to be extremely ugly. Muzzies find goats alluring.


8 posted on 02/04/2017 4:32:44 AM PST by JayElBee
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To: JayElBee

Maybe they were men who “identify as” women?


9 posted on 02/04/2017 5:55:11 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Makana
I do hope there's an investigation going on to determine how the Yemeni terrorists learned about the attack. I also wonder if the hasty ban wasn't enforced to keep terrorists who left before the raid from boarding flights from the US.

Pure speculation.

10 posted on 02/04/2017 5:56:45 AM PST by grania
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I’d like to know if there were other entities on the raid alongside us.

Could have been a security leak from our so-called “partners”—the enemy knew we were coming.


11 posted on 02/04/2017 6:02:03 AM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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To: Makana

I could be wrong, but it seems we are involved in Yemen as the muscle for for Saudi Arabia.


12 posted on 02/04/2017 6:07:49 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Makana

Well, how about that? Exactly what I speculated yesterday. Jihadis train their women and children to be fighters and terrorists. Not to mention that all terrorists are civilians.


13 posted on 02/04/2017 6:43:51 AM PST by TigersEye (Winning. Winning winning winning every day!!!)
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To: Makana

I’ve only ever seen one Osprey in flight and it was loud as heck, akin to a Chinook on its best day.

I’m guessing the Osprey was used due to the mission being beyond chopper range?


14 posted on 02/04/2017 6:51:04 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Makana

Guess we finally understand why Al Qaeda is so popular with libs.


15 posted on 02/04/2017 7:21:28 AM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: Makana

When I read of this raid a few days ago, it was written in a way that made it sound like the female fighters were WITH the US team.


16 posted on 02/04/2017 7:34:02 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Makana

I want an executive order,

“US will not risk troops unless we are trying to retrieve something physically from the location regardless of collateral damage”

In other words, don’t hang around terrorists, they will get you killed.

Cluster Bombs all around


17 posted on 02/04/2017 7:47:57 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: TigersEye

This is not the first our soldiers have had to fight against women. Hubby ran into it in Vietnam. Women were even driving tanks. And the old story of them walking down the street with a smile and a basket with a grenade in it is true.


18 posted on 02/04/2017 7:59:23 AM PST by sheana
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To: Makana

We had better get used to killing women and children, they are jihadists too.

Anwar al-Awlaki’s kids are just as eligible to be President as Ted Cruz.


19 posted on 02/04/2017 7:59:29 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Makana
Davis said the U.S. is still assessing whether civilians were killed.

Define civilian.
Does she have a weapon ?
Should we even care civilians were killed ?
Civilians whose sympathies lie with the bad guys ?
Who shield and protect bad guys ?

20 posted on 02/04/2017 8:07:49 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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