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NBC News Exclusive: How the SEAL Raid on Somalia Went Bad (Obama Sets up SEAL Team 6?)
NBC News ^ | Monday, October 7, 2013 | Matthew Cole and Jim Miklaszewski

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at investigations.nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alshabaab; bho44; counterterrorism; ikrima; navyseals; sealteam6; somalia; specialops
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To: driftdiver

True, the Israelis work that way but there’s always a raghead who will take up the assassinated leaders’ position.


81 posted on 10/07/2013 10:14:26 PM PDT by Netz
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To: Oliviaforever

Ahaaa! That proves the libs were involved./facetiousness


82 posted on 10/07/2013 11:19:32 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Kennard
The seals supposedly said that the target appeared briefly at a window. If he had been tipped, he would not have been in the compound.

True, there is so far no indication that they were tipped off.

84 posted on 10/08/2013 12:23:23 AM PDT by ansel12 ( 'I'm on That New Obama Diet... Every Day I Let Vladimir Putin Eat My Lunch' .)
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To: kristinn; LucyT

This story is absolute bull$hiite and disinformation. Propaganda. Where are the announcements for dead SEALS?


85 posted on 10/08/2013 12:25:18 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Captain7seas; CivilWarBrewing

Interesting. Eerie. SOP.

Thanks for pointing that out.


87 posted on 10/08/2013 12:43:20 AM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: combat_boots
This story is absolute bull$hiite and disinformation. Propaganda.

Pretty much my opinion also.

The "facts" should start to trickle out in a couple of months.

89 posted on 10/08/2013 2:56:40 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: driftdiver; Travis McGee
Wrong. You're the bystander. I've seen more combat than most, including nearly a year in the hospital recovering from wounds.

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?

90 posted on 10/08/2013 3:36:02 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: volunbeer

28 years in the service including 18 months in combat - guess so, private.


91 posted on 10/08/2013 3:37:24 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: tennmountainman

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.


92 posted on 10/08/2013 3:45:32 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: kristinn

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.


93 posted on 10/08/2013 4:05:16 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: gaijin

Tom Hanks was chosen to give cover to the lie that the Capt. Phillips movie will tell.


94 posted on 10/08/2013 4:08:32 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: arthurus

And remove commanders that will stand in your way. Does anyone really believe Romney would be doing this garbage?


95 posted on 10/08/2013 4:11:06 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: dfwgator

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.


96 posted on 10/08/2013 4:33:43 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: kristinn

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.


97 posted on 10/08/2013 4:49:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: newfreep

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.


98 posted on 10/08/2013 5:01:16 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Gene Eric

Did it have “hi-capacity ammunition clips”?


99 posted on 10/08/2013 5:06:25 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Theoria

“military decision”

Might be an Obama decision


100 posted on 10/08/2013 5:50:48 AM PDT by GeronL
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