Posted on 02/02/2017 7:57:01 AM PST by rktman
U.S. Navy SEALs knew al-Qaida terrorists were alerted to their impending raid deep inside Yemen Saturday, but continued the operation anyway.
U.S. officials say they are unsure how the terrorist group figured out the upcoming raid. Local tribal elders speculated that the group was suspicious because U.S. drones were flying lower than normal, and emitting audible engine noise.
As the terrorists prepared for the SEALs’ arrival, the U.S. intercepted their communications. The SEALs were a mere five miles away and chose to press on, despite knowing it would be a bloody firefight.
“They kind of knew they were screwed from the beginning,” a former SEAL Team 6 member told The New York Times.
When the SEALs arrived they were engaged in a nearly 50-minute firefight, which killed one U.S. service member and injured six others. The SEALs also encountered a highly unusual situation.
“Several women in the compound immediately, ran to pre-established positions — as though they had trained to be ready, and trained to be combatants — and engaged with us,” according to Pentagon Spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis. Davis elaborated that this is the first known time to the U.S. military that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula employed women in an attack.
A $75 million MV-22 Osprey also experienced a “hard landing” and had to be destroyed by a follow up U.S. airstrike to protect proprietary technology.
“Almost everything went wrong,” a U.S. defense official told NBC News after the operation.
The Pentagon confirmed late Wednesday that civilians were killed in the raid, saying, “[AQAP] has a horrifying history of hiding women and children within militant operating areas and terrorist camps, and continuously shows a callous disregard for innocent lives.” One of the civilians who may have been killed is the 8-year-old daughter of former al-Qaida leader Anwar Al-Awlaki.
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Would not surprise me in the slightest if one day it comes out that someone in the Obama Administration alerted the terrorists so that this mission failure would make Trump look bad. Yes, they are THAT far gone in their hatred of Trump.
Zero has been enjoying SIR Richard Branson’s 100% secure SAT comms on his BVI.
They got a call from Necker Island.
“Obama tipped them off.”
The Fraud has a special hate for our elite armed forces.
The Chris Kyle takedown, and how many SEALs has the Fraud had killed for his global caliphate?
Former president & Muslim-In-Chief 0bama alerted his Al-Qaeda homies.
Why are seals still being used for this raids? They seem to have a pretty high fatality rate in these cases.
Yep, all pre-existing ops plans need to be scrapped and completely re-worked.
why a seal op inthe first place...
communications are always monitored .... for example telcons between al queda and 17 feb martyrs brigade was montiored for two months planning the benghazi assault...
and what about air support.. isnt that used anymore..???
in nam 4 seals could hold off 500 cong with air support... and did
seems sts is being set up and decimated by a traitor...
They might be that dumb, the rest of us look at whom was in charge and gave the orders.
Gave the orders to our troops, and the enemy!
A couple weeks ago, I caught a few minutes of an alleged Special Forces officer defending the Fraud and his mission that took out all those SEALs at once right after bin laden was allegedly killed and hastily disposed of.
Exactly. Why is this even a SEAL mission?
I read another article which alluded to the people there acted like they knew they were going to be raided.
Soldiers die in battle and leaders have the grim task of sending them into those battles knowing that not all of them will make it back. Thus it has always been and thus it will always be.
I just hope that they got what they were after.
Q: Did any members of Congress kniw about this raid beforehand? If so, who knew what, when? And did any member/s of Congress leak the info?
Oldeconomybuyer wrote: Fake news
I can't believe how much time I'm saving these days by being able to dismiss out of hand ALL of the #FakeNews coming out of the #FakeStreamMedia.
I don't even have to look at it. It isn't worth my time. 😀
And the most AWESOME part is that the #FakeStreamMedia hasn't figured out that literally 60% of the country has tuned them out.
Only 40% of the country is taking them seriously, and freaking out about their lying gas on Twitter.
And most of that 40% doesn't have guns, or believe in them. LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
These people aren't stupid ... drones flying lower than usual to the extent they were audible, a moonless night ... prime conditions for an attack. They simply went on high alert anticipating an attack ... they were not tipped off in some nefarious way that is being suggested by some of the responses in this forum.
“My understanding is that the op was planned late during the last administraton and given a green light by the current admin.”
That worked out so well with the Bay of Pigs.
Something about this whole thing doesn’t fit...Barky had it ‘set up’ and President Trump let it happen, did he have Gen. Mattis on board when this happened? If not, then I have to believe it was ‘set up’ to bring Trump down...
This just doesn’t fit...not with President Trump Administration...it smells fishy, and besides have you ever heard a acting Navy Seal talking to the media while they were serving? I haven’t, but I could be wrong...but this whole thing smells to me like Barky ‘set up’ Trump...not good...
Wow, that's a scary thought. Wanting deaths of our service members in Trump's first week? I hate to go there.
>Wow, that’s a scary thought. Wanting deaths of our service members in Trump’s first week? I hate to go there.
Why not? These people cheer on the murder of cops, why not seals?
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