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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Let me know when a real vet shows up.
Within any other President I’d believe it
You’re a cutie, no question.
Nobody does any of us any favors by candy-coating failure. If you are or weren’t professional enough to raise your voice when things went wrong, then you weren’t a leader, you were a cheerleader.
You led no one. If you had, you wouldn't have lumped all SEALs with the ones you allege screwed up somewhere in your heroic combat duties, where you were an eye-witness to multiple historic battles. Oh yeah, and you'd have a more precise way of referring to those battles, so as not to slam all of the rest of our people and mix them up with the ones you have decided are inept.
You're a fraud - a "keyboard commando" as you put it. And it there are holes in your body, it's because you didn't get your ass on the ground fast enough while others were running to protect you. Or it's because you got fragged by your own men for being a sh!tmouth one too many times.
Wow. Need to really scale back on the emotions, Bud. All the wild screed stuff just makes you look odd.
Failure is failure. What happened to the SEALs at Grenada (or for that matter Delta?) . How about Panama? Nobody questions our guy’s bravery but I do question the concepts and doctrine behind the operational employment of the SEALs.
Nah, I got shot dragging a wounded man to cover from the middle of an open field. Saved his life and I almost died from it. Spent 7 months in several hospitals recovering from that.
Now, what have you done?
Between the government and the lamestream media there is simply ZERO credibility. I can hardly bring myself to contemplate the details of such a story in any depth at all. There is just no reason to believe ANYTHING that comes out of Washington these days.
He’s a member according to the Egyptian papers.
I keep getting the impression the President is trying to get rid of this group. Hmmmm ..??
Do they know something about Obama that he doesn’t ever want made public ..??
And now .. I’m wondering if the group that was killed in Afghanistan was not the group .. or the whole group .. that Obama was looking for ..??
I don’t know what it is .. but something about this doesn’t smell right.
Tom Hanks says he’ll vote for the usurper in ‘16.
Dear Sir, I am pleased to report that you have won today's Free Republic thread! (-:
You forgot to mention that you were also coordination air support at the time by blinking your flashlight in morse code, while dodging aligators and crawling through barbed wire under machine gun fire.
Now, what have you done?
Me? I make a mean omelette.
You’re a funny little guy.
And you're a joke.
This was bad planning. The execution was ok but what you have is a bunch of gays and women planning this and they “blew” it.
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