Posted on 10/06/2013 7:08:57 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In a stealthy seaside assault in Somalia, U.S. special forces on Saturday struck out against Islamic extremists who have carried out terrorist attacks in East Africa, before eventually aborting the mission to capture a leading terrorist suspect linked to last month's Nairobi shopping mall attack after a fierce firefight.
A U.S. Navy SEAL team swam ashore near a town in southern Somalia before militants of the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab rose for dawn prayers. The raid on a house in the town of Barawe targeted a specific al-Qaeda suspect related to the mall attack, but the operation did not get its target, one current and one former U.S. military official told AP.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the raid publicly.
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Maybe they were alerted Obama was about to out them on national TV with a “breaking news event” to stymie the bad press he is beginning to get on the shut down??
Tactical Nukes. Yeah!
The leader is not in Somalia.
what the sh**. why is this in the news
This just in:
June 1, 1944...According to unnamed sources close to Gen Dwight D. Eisenhouser the allied invasion will be sometime this week at the Normandy beaches.
So the initial reports were one AQ captured and another target shot and they were not able to retrieve body. Which is it?
They did however nab the guy involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies 15 years ago.
What the heck is going on here!!!!!!
Leni
Maybe they realized they were being sent on another false flag op, and didn’t want to be thrown under the bus like the BS Bin Laden raid.
Honestly, why clandestine missions of this sort are even undertaken by these special forces is beyond me. I know of only two well-known examples of intelligence information being leaked by some very senior government officials, the murder of navy seals shot down by a missile and the recent leak tipping off Al Qaeda about US Govt surveillance. But its more than enough to be concerned about any American servicemen being put in harm’s way by treasonous, betrayering sons-of-bastards working out of the White Hut.
Honestly, why clandestine missions of this sort are even undertaken by these special forces is beyond me. I know of only two well-known examples of intelligence information being leaked by some very senior government officials, the murder of navy seals shot down by a missile and the recent leak tipping off Al Qaeda about US Govt surveillance. But its more than enough to be concerned about any American servicemen being put in harm’s way by treasonous, betrayering sons-of-bastards working out of the White Hut.
obama
When the leader of AQ is in the WH, it’s good tactics to send the hunters to the other side of the globe.
Makes for peaceful golfing.
It would have been better if they had just come in,
Killed them all and then exfiltrated without a trace
and no mention made in the press.
Let Al Kaabab figure that out.
The ineptness of this administration is beyond belief.
i still wonder if the “bin ladin raid” was really an attempt to secure Pakistan’s nukes, but we lost the classified copter so we had to make some other excuse up.
call me mr. tin foil hat, but I don’t trust anything this government tell us.
it is about distraction. This lousy administration/regime uses our men as pawns in their sick shell game.
“Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the raid publicly.”
Idiots can’t keep their mouths shut.
(1) We are finally catching up to the AQ perps...
....Who attacked US interests in 1998 --15 yrs ago...
(Hmmm... better late then never I s'pose)
(2) And we know down to which house the Al-She-Bob mastermind is hiding...
--And we send a few of our bravest warriors to try and grab him...??
---Instead of just raining HELLFIRE out of the sky?
Who is the Dumb@$$-in-Chief here??
Lemme guess....
Mike.... Mike-Mike....
...Mike-Mike-Mike-Mike...
GUESS WHO SCREWED THIS UP???
(FOR DEMS & MSM'S: It's a rhetorical question)
The hypocrisy of the Left (in making a huge deal out of Valerie Plame and beating their chests when Scooter Libby got convicted of a procedural violation while Richard Armitage, who actually made the leak, was not even questioned) is staggering.
Hard to catch someone on the run... /s
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Attack, attack ,attack
To win you must attack
the boy never seems to miss a chance to pose like the pansy azz faggot that it is...
And why did we have to put our men in harms way when drones could have done the job? It’s not like King Obunga gives a flip about collateral damage.
They also apparently called the Somalis to inform them of the impending raid. The lives of SEALS do not matter, only their political utility.
Military golf courses do not operate with public funds, why should they be closed? Neither does the WWII Memorial, the National Parks, and the Ocean - only government employees and government facilities require government funding and many remain open because they are performing useful political purposes.
This is hussein’s variety of islamism against other islamists not dancing to his tune. It’s a disgrace that he uses our special ops forces to undermine the United States toward the further installment of sharia in the West.
Look at what Kerry said. He’s taking credit for this. Plus, he’s daring them to hit us again. OK. But he better damn well be sure they’ve anticipated and prepared for every possible attack. You don’t poke a man-killing tiger with a stick, you shoot it.
We are still screwing around in Somalia. Thanks, Bill Clinton. Fight to win or stay the hell out. Four more dead in Afghanistan today. In a war that President Pee Wee Herman said he’d get us out of five years ago. No big loss to him. But, I guarantee you, for four families, the sky just went black.
>>what the sh**. why is this in the news?
Welcome fans, to the “Your NSA Dollars at Work” show, breought to you by the YLINP- Your Life is now Public Network. Thrill to sound of splintering wood as commandos drive their APC through Joe Sixpack’s front door, shriek with laughter as Fluffy the family dog’s brains hit the cupboard, Ooh and ahh when the evidence takers hold up the incriminating desktop, the laptop, the cell phones, the DVD player and the family flat panel screen and BB gun for all to see...
Unlike in Afghanistan on a CH-47 helicopter on Aug. 06, 2011, Perhaps the SEALs realized they had been sent to their deaths so they pulled out.
raiders do not hold territory
they strike and leave
It's like Barry leaves no stone unturned in making his presidency the most hellish nightmare imaginable - right down to his choice in footwear. Even that is beyond infuriating.
I can't take it anymore.
Disinformation
Could be the enemy is running the country.
Barry must have informed the enemy.
This isn’t reporting a planned future mission, this is reporting after an event happens and the news that is generated by it.
The world press is not going to squelch such news stories.
These “officials” spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the raid publicly, but did it anyway. With apparently no repercussions.
But the regime and their media can keep their mouths locked up about Fast and Furious, IRS targeting practices, Obama’s life history, obamacare, and on and on.
Because Barry’s poll numbers are taking a big hit. He needs to catch a terrorist.
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