Posted on 05/16/2015 10:59:27 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
US Special Operations Forces killed an Islamic State military and financial leader and captured his wife during a raid in eastern Syria last night, the US military confirmed today.
The operation, which included airstrikes followed by an air assault conducted by special operations troops, was designed to capture Abu Sayyaf, a senior leader in the Islamic State, and his wife, Umm Sayyaf.
The raid took place “in al-Amr,” or the Al Omar oil field in Deir al Zour province in eastern Syria, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said in a statement released by the US military. The oil field is under the control of the Islamic State, which uses the extracted resources to fund its operations in Iraq and Syria.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 19 Islamic State fighters were killed “due to carrying out airstrikes by warplanes on IS [Islamic State] positions in the oilfield.” A “paratrooper landing followed the strikes.”
“Abu Sayyaf was killed during the course of the operation when he engaged US forces,” according to Carter’s statement. A US official told told The Long War Journal that communications equipment, a computer, and other documents were seized during the raid.
No US troops were killed or wounded, Carter noted. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at longwarjournal.org ...
Naturally, the Golfer-in-Chief is pointing with pride....to himself!
I question the timing of things. Esp. on top of news about Ramadi.
Trust in what this WH (and even Pentagon) put out is not very high for me, for some reason. And it is not my fault.
However, IF the news is true, it is a big YEAH for our special forces.
The story is that they were supposed to capture him
which seems really unlikely
and put our people at risk with him ending up dead nyway
I think it was done to bolter that POS Obama’s ratings
Obama will claim it was a hole in one.
Well see it for what it is, his hole in none.
Our special forces pulled it off.
That they let him know about it, was more than he deserved.
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“They got the wife and 3 kids.
His wife is named Umm Sayyaf. What are the three kids named? Huh, Err, and Ahh?
LOL!
U.S. soldiers kill senior Islamic State commander in Syria raid, capture wife
Orlando Sentinel | 05/16/15
Posted on 05/16/2015 6:42:11 AM PDT by Enlightened1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3290485/posts
Quote from this version of the operation...
"...ISIS fighters tried to use women and children as human shields."
Maybe we should give her to Obama as a sex slave?
Oh, wait... We’re any of the children males??
One at a time isn’t going to get the job done. Go parking lot on them.
Yet another successful op that should never have been reported. I would love to know what goes through the minds of our heroic ‘Quiet Professionals’ when they see this stuff released by the Narcissist-in-Chief?
One of these days...
If 0bummer had a son...
How many from White House will attend the funeral?
Story says "paratrooper insertion". Did they jump in or, since most paratroopers are helo borne, were they inserted by copter?
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