Posted on 10/07/2013 3:32:36 PM PDT by kristinn
The team of less than two dozen Navy SEALs from Seal Team 6 huddled in one fast boat and headed toward the Somali shoreline under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Three more small boats with additional SEALs flanked the assault team’s craft, to provide back-up and assist with the planned extraction of an al Shabaab warlord named Ikrima.
According to multiple U.S. military sources, the lead boat landed, and the assault team hit the beach near the Southern Somali town of Barawe, headed for the fortified seaside compound of their target. U.S. intelligence had determined that Ikrima, one of two terror suspects targeted by the military in simultaneous raids thousands of miles apart this weekend, planned the terror group’s operations outside of Somalia.
The SEALs entered the compound and took the positions they had selected based on the intelligence collected in advance of the raid.
Then a lone al Shabaab fighter walked out into plain view, smoked a cigarette, and went back inside, one source familiar with the details of the raid said. The fighter played it cool, and gave no indication that he had spotted the SEALs. But he came back out shooting, firing rounds from an AK-47 assault rifle.
Soon the American commandos were under siege from the warlord’s well-armed fighters. Gunfire swept toward their positions and grenades began to rain down, multiple military sources said.
Several of the SEALs could see Ikrima through the windows of the compound, but couldn’t get to him. The SEALs continued to take fire while trying to find a way to get closer to their target.
And then the children came into the pictures on their scopes.
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True, the Israelis work that way but there’s always a raghead who will take up the assassinated leaders’ position.
Ahaaa! That proves the libs were involved./facetiousness
True, there is so far no indication that they were tipped off.
This story is absolute bull$hiite and disinformation. Propaganda. Where are the announcements for dead SEALS?
Interesting. Eerie. SOP.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Pretty much my opinion also.
The "facts" should start to trickle out in a couple of months.
I have also served alongside the SEALs years ago. I saw their training and their weaponry and I saw their abject defeats in Grenada, Panama, the first Gulf War, and the "Last Stand" on that hilltop in Afghanistan.
Where have you been?
28 years in the service including 18 months in combat - guess so, private.
This is the same POTUS that loves drones and yet he sends SEALS in to get a terrorist.
Am betting the bad guys were tipped off and waiting.
Set up by the anti-Americans in the Executive Branch. This is why we need to control Congress for a generation and at veto-proof majorities if possible.
Tom Hanks was chosen to give cover to the lie that the Capt. Phillips movie will tell.
And remove commanders that will stand in your way. Does anyone really believe Romney would be doing this garbage?
It sounds the whole attack was a massive screw up and they had to back out.
The kids were there , OK so what about the drone strikes which have increased under Bozo?
Also when we would do something like this we would have a silencer if we could not get close to the guy, so are they saying that not one Seal had a pistol with a silencer to take out this guy smoking?
Nah this was a screw up and either they were ordered to get out to not have any casualties or the commander on the ground realized this was a screw up.
We cannot believe anything that Obama touches. Its all just
part of his campaign. Seal Team 6 is just a part of the Obama Kabuki Theater campaign which began in 2008 shortly after Obama’s fraudulent inauguration.
Another traitorous running dog for the evil Obama socialist regime. This one is a wattle-flopping muslim convert and he runs the CIA.
Is this a great nation or what? The enemies of our society are allowed to run the show.
Did it have “hi-capacity ammunition clips”?
“military decision”
Might be an Obama decision
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