To be honest, I don't know what to think.
What I am sure of is that something about this whole report doesn't ring true. I can't tell you what part, though, but something stinks.
You can bet that SecDef Gates knows everything about this incident that SOC knows.
My son is in that unit, and when the March 4th incident occurred, he called, and told us that whatever we were hearing on the news, to disregard it, that they were lying. He didn't make reference to what incident he was talking about, because he can't talk about it, but we figured it out since that was the only thing on the news that day involving the Marines. He called us on Friday, and not knowing that the news media was reporting this new situation, had told us that he had moved somewhere else. He didn't say where or why, but now I know. I just hope that any reporting on their whereabouts is deliberate misinformation to the media, because if we are reading this, so is the enemy.