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Navy SEALs raid Somalia pirate compound, free hostages
Boston Herald via AP ^ | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | AP

Posted on 01/25/2012 2:29:06 AM PST by GQuagmire

MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. military forces flew into Somalia in a nighttime helicopter raid Wednesday, freed an American and a Danish hostage, and killed nine pirates in a mission President Barack Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech, officials and a pirate source said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: pirates; seals
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"pirate source"

For some reason that makes me laugh

1 posted on 01/25/2012 2:29:11 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire

God bless our Seals.


2 posted on 01/25/2012 2:40:09 AM PST by bonfire
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To: GQuagmire

And odds are the 32 year-old woman became a -————.


3 posted on 01/25/2012 2:42:35 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: bonfire

Concur on the SEALS but why are we providing military support to rescue humanitarians (idiots) who go to these shxt holes of the world?


4 posted on 01/25/2012 2:45:49 AM PST by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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To: maddog55

Why? To help BO reelection campaign.


5 posted on 01/25/2012 3:05:17 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Jonty30
...mattress cover.
6 posted on 01/25/2012 3:06:45 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: GQuagmire

7 posted on 01/25/2012 3:16:10 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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To: GQuagmire

Sounds like Tears of the Sun


8 posted on 01/25/2012 3:18:30 AM PST by ari-freedom (If SOPA passes, we will lose our Free Republic.)
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To: GQuagmire
...Obama appeared to reference before his State of the Union speech.

What's Obama got to do with it?

9 posted on 01/25/2012 3:21:14 AM PST by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: maddog55

BO’s poll numbers.

Let’s see if he outs their identities again.


10 posted on 01/25/2012 3:27:42 AM PST by bonfire
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Navy SEALs raid Somalia pirate Muslim compound, free hostages

There...corrected it.

11 posted on 01/25/2012 3:34:48 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: GQuagmire

There are now 9 good Muslim pirates.


12 posted on 01/25/2012 3:40:28 AM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: GQuagmire

Something doesn’t sound right about this and advertising it makes the whole affair totally illogical.


13 posted on 01/25/2012 3:47:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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"...that's 648 more virgins added to 3,147,543,761....even the stooopidest muslim has to have his doubts"

14 posted on 01/25/2012 3:47:44 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: GQuagmire
I just read an article. They hardly needed seals for this job. The captors were/are street hoods...a gang. This was a job for the local militia.

The bad dudes were apparently on drugs and fell asleep.

I simply do not believe this was carried out by seals. If it was, it was a stupid risk of our guys.

15 posted on 01/25/2012 3:57:50 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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You don’t practice against first stringers. You practice against the benchwarmers. Even SEAL’s need practice...


16 posted on 01/25/2012 4:01:28 AM PST by GQuagmire (Pats 33 Giants 24 Pats Super Bowl 46 Champs)
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To: Sacajaweau
The bad dudes were apparently on drugs and fell asleep.

They now have a permanent dirt nap.

17 posted on 01/25/2012 4:03:51 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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If you think I'm going to risk 9 of my best for 2 jackasses being held by a street gang when it's a job for the local police, you're nuts.

This simply shouldn't have been a military operation.

18 posted on 01/25/2012 4:09:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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> This simply shouldn’t have been a military operation.

It wasn’t. It was a public relations operation to boost Hussein’s popularity. He couldn’t afford for it to go wrong, so he used SEALs, because, “When it absolutely, positively must be killed or blown up overnight: Navy SEALs”.


19 posted on 01/25/2012 5:01:53 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: Travis McGee
ping
20 posted on 01/25/2012 5:05:12 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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