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Varying accounts of U.S./Coalition Hostage Rescue Mission in Raqqa, Syria
Twitter ^ | 1-1-2015 | Various

Posted on 01/01/2015 5:21:15 PM PST by tcrlaf

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I'll post more when a media source gets posted in English.
1 posted on 01/01/2015 5:21:15 PM PST by tcrlaf
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BTTT


2 posted on 01/01/2015 5:22:56 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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Bump to keep apprised.


3 posted on 01/01/2015 5:24:45 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: tcrlaf

Swell. Obama just has to out-Carter Jimmy Carter, doesn’t he?

Oh — I forgot. He only grabs for the glory when things go right. This is obviously somebody else’s fault and they didn’t ask for his blessing beforehand.


4 posted on 01/01/2015 5:28:11 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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Interesting to note that when you go to the ISIS-related “Raqqa2” webpage, Twitter suggests that you might also like to follow Mother Jones, “The Fix”’s Uber-lib Chris Cillizza, and Obama Journo-list’r David Corn.

Imagine that one, eh?


5 posted on 01/01/2015 5:29:25 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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Suspect it would be aimed at the Jordanian pilot who was shot down a few days ago.


6 posted on 01/01/2015 5:31:25 PM PST by MediaMole
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Another tweet: Radio Free Syria 1 min ‪‎Breaking ‪‎Coalition‬ Airborne landing in ‎Raqqa. the operation was aimed at freeing the hostages in ‎IS‬ hands however the attack failed as a clash took place between coalition troops fighters.
7 posted on 01/01/2015 5:32:52 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: DJ Frisat

When there’s finally MSM coverage, Barry will learn all about it....


8 posted on 01/01/2015 5:32:54 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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First English Language article up:

Coalition Ground Forces Attempt Rescue Mission in Ar-Raqqa
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/coalition-ground-forces-attempt-rescue-mission-ar-raqqa/

Will wait for more details before posting a “Breaking”


9 posted on 01/01/2015 5:36:14 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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interesting...if you follow the twitter feed there were reports 5 hours ago of incessant bombing in Raqqa...


10 posted on 01/01/2015 5:37:53 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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“...if you follow the twitter feed there were reports 5 hours ago of incessant bombing in Raqqa...:

I follow the “Iraq” feed, and noted the airstrikes several hours ago, as well. Nothing unusual about that, in recent weeks, but a failed hostage rescue would be big news.


11 posted on 01/01/2015 5:39:44 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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that seems to be a summation of the twitter posts:

“The Anti-ISIS Coalition airplanes attempted to land near Al-Saqiyyah St. at the Al-Sakaan Al-Shabaabi Quarter in the Ar-Raqqa Governorate; this was repelled by the ISIS militants who opened fire on the first aircraft’s attempt to land.”

were the airplanes landing in the middle of town or at an airport?


12 posted on 01/01/2015 5:39:54 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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That’s at least the second screwed up rescue attempt. I wonder if any helicopters had to be left behind because of a crash during a dust storm?


13 posted on 01/01/2015 5:40:19 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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If it failed, who wants to bet it wasn’t US lead. My bet is it was Jordanian SF.


14 posted on 01/01/2015 5:42:29 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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The crash wasn’t during a sand storm, it was while they were leaving the gathering site after calling off the mission.


15 posted on 01/01/2015 5:47:04 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: tcrlaf

There is another thread on FR about Otto Skorzeny. He was a hard core Nazi but also an amazing special forces soldier.

I bet he would have done better.


16 posted on 01/01/2015 5:47:06 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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I think he rescued Mussolini from his imprisonment by Italian troops on top of a high mountain.

Flown out by Storch, I believe.

He went to Ireland and got into farming.


17 posted on 01/01/2015 6:11:30 PM PST by gaijin
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So no one told them about the dust thrown up by helicopter propwash. gotcha.


18 posted on 01/01/2015 6:37:50 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Vermont Lt
Makes sense. I can't remember but I believe the other one that failed had someone other than US forces involved. I need to go look that up.

Someone other than the US leading it is a recipe for disaster, though. Half the people in that part of the world would see it as their chance to die while quietly making their contribution to jihad without the hassles openly supporting jihad might cause their family members in a country like Jordan.

19 posted on 01/01/2015 6:41:40 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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It was pilot error, I thought you were complaining about the sand storm that some of the pilots had complained about as justification.

Of course there is dust with helicopters landing and taking off in desert areas, it didn’t justify the bad piloting and crashing into the parked C-130.


20 posted on 01/01/2015 6:49:55 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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