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Inside U.S. raid on ISIS leader: Months of preparation, then a deadly blast
https://www.reuters.com ^ | February 4, 2022 1:22 AM CST | By Phil Stewart and Trevor Hunnicutt

Posted on 02/04/2022 9:53:03 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: 1Old Pro

“”At one point, a helicopter involved in the raid suffered a mechanical failure and had to be destroyed rather than left behind, the Pentagon said.””

Kind of like the helicopter that caught the tail rotor on the wall going in after bin Laden...

Reading this I could just picture Biden and Harris and others sitting around watching it unfold on screen exactly like obozo and Hillary did the night of the bin Laden raid!!! Except I don’t believe Biden stayed awake for this one.

From the looks of that room, it looks like the maid had the day off!! I bet it didn’t look much different BEFORE the explosion!


21 posted on 02/04/2022 10:24:26 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t really have a problem with that if we got a bad guy or two


22 posted on 02/04/2022 10:25:26 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Thank You Rush
At one point, a helicopter involved in the raid suffered a mechanical failure

Not too descriptive, kinda nebulous. Wasn't the Osama copter hang up pilot error?

23 posted on 02/04/2022 10:26:29 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: mass55th

No blow-up looks. The pic looks more like a homeless encampment for squatters. Speaking of that what should we do with them? Are they entitled to walk amongst us if the take over a building? Outskirts of town in a warehouse sounds best. Minimal security. Separate the men from the women. Feed them at 10PM after the restaurants have been closed. One glass of Thunderbird to go with an appetizer.

It wold be nice if someone could look closer to see anything that looks staged.


24 posted on 02/04/2022 10:27:04 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Sacajaweau

Ditto
Would be interested in a forensic analysis of some of those photos. Some do not look like suicide bomb.

And…what kind of SOF raid puts a US team on the ground in the middle of suburban jihadistan for 2-3 hours of negotiations….? Given that we already know these guys hide behind women and kids and commit suicide rather than surrender.

Building has holes…story has holes.

Biden needed a photo op looking all Presidential ( staged just like obama) and he needed it NOW.


25 posted on 02/04/2022 10:30:42 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

I’ve seen yard sales that looked messier than that.


26 posted on 02/04/2022 10:31:09 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

The room looks like a place where folks were doing drugs or homeless were sleeping. Not from a bomb going off.


27 posted on 02/04/2022 10:33:54 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Red Badger

There was no explosion in the room in that photo.


28 posted on 02/04/2022 10:34:53 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DIRTYSECRET
"No blow-up looks. "

Other than the broken glass, and stove, that room looks like my youngest son's room when he was teen-ager. He'll be 51 next week. Thankfully, he's not a slob anymore. For some reason, men tend to listen to their wives better than they ever did their mothers.

29 posted on 02/04/2022 10:35:34 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: existentially_kuffer

The picture doesn’t make sense. Mats neatly against the wall...Pig sty yes...but that is how they are.


30 posted on 02/04/2022 10:36:07 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Red Badger

Compare this raid to the one got OBL. Why did they use a loudspeaker to warn the target that he and his family should surrender? A two hour gun battle ensued. Super cautious risking American lives.


31 posted on 02/04/2022 10:37:32 AM PST by kabar
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So a picture of a room is included, this is meant to be believed?

If you look carefully you can see that it was all blowed up by Dementia Joe.

32 posted on 02/04/2022 10:38:21 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: kabar

Seems like Delta Force has morphed into an FBI hostage negotiating/ SWAT team…vs ISIS


33 posted on 02/04/2022 10:41:00 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Assume as true, why then would a POTUS want or need to “monitor” a single raid in real time?

A skeptic can guess why Xiden would do this ... it is all about creating “optics” ... meant for Xi and Putin after all his recent Ukrainian tough guy talk ... that he means business. His handlers are trying to repair their gigantic Afghanistan mistake played through Xiden.


34 posted on 02/04/2022 10:47:51 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: existentially_kuffer

‘So a picture of a room is included, this is meant to be believed?’

Did you notice that the stove was the required distance from the wall, for insurance purposes...


35 posted on 02/04/2022 10:52:09 AM PST by brooklin
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

I would like to support the men and women of our armed forces, but I can’t believe anything this illegitimate regime says.


36 posted on 02/04/2022 10:52:57 AM PST by ozarker
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To: Red Badger

Did he REALLY KILL HIMSELF??? LOTS of damage go the ROOF!
I trust TRUST NOTHING THEY SAY!!


37 posted on 02/04/2022 10:53:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: hanamizu

Yes, that is what I understood it to be. And that picture doesn’t really look like some kind of “blast” destruction. A mess, maybe, but not what I would expect a deadly explosion site to look like.


39 posted on 02/04/2022 10:59:02 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: existentially_kuffer

I have no expertise in munitions but I’d think there would be some evidence of trauma like blood spray, shrapnel in the walls, blast residue.

This looks remarkably like the interiors of most welfare houses I had the opportunity to work in 30 years ago. Plenty of evidence of poor housekeeping.


40 posted on 02/04/2022 11:12:12 AM PST by cyclotic (I won't give up my FREEDOM for your FEAR)
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