View Full Version : U.S. Says Navy SEALs Stage Raid on Somali Militants
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10-05-2013, 16:30
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/world/africa/mall-attack-also-involved-kenyans-official-says.html?_r=0
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Too bad they didn't have the USS Missouri with her 16 inch guns for support. I bet the firefight would not have lasted an hour.
On that style op?
lol Dude, have you ever called in fire support?
Divemaster
10-05-2013, 22:29
Same thing happened in Libya, but the unit remains nameless. Hmm.
Same thing happened in Libya, but the unit remains nameless. Hmm.
Al Libi is a good haul!
Bravo Zulu to whoever did it :D
:lifter
Not only did only one unit remain nameless but if preliminary reports are to be believed, only one unit actually got its target.
That staid, whose bright idea was it to inform the Somali government ahead of time?
How is barry going to claim credit for this?
CAIRO — American commandos carried out raids on Saturday in two far-flung African countries in a powerful flex of military muscle aimed at capturing fugitive terrorist suspects.
American troops assisted by F.B.I. and C.I.A. agents seized a suspected leader of Al Qaeda on the streets of Tripoli, Libya, while Navy SEALs raided the seaside villa of a militant leader in a predawn firefight on the coast of Somalia.
In Tripoli, American forces captured a Libyan militant who had been indicted in 2000 for his role in the 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The militant, born Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai and known by his nom de guerre, Abu Anas al-Liby, had a $5 million bounty on his head; his capture at dawn ended a 15-year manhunt.
In Somalia, the Navy SEAL team emerged before sunrise from the Indian Ocean and exchanged gunfire with militants at the home of a senior leader of the Shabab, the Somali militant group. The raid was planned more than a week ago, officials said, after a massacre by the Shabab at a Nairobi shopping mall that killed more than 60 people two weeks ago.
The SEAL team was forced to withdraw before it could confirm that it had killed the Shabab leader, a senior American security official said. Officials declined to identify the target.
With President Obama locked in a standoff with Congressional Republicans and his leadership criticized for a policy reversal in Syria, the raids could fuel accusations among his critics that the administration was eager for a showy foreign policy victory.
Abu Anas, the Libyan Qaeda leader, was considered a major prize, and officials said he was alive in United States custody. While the details about his capture were sketchy, an American official said Saturday night that he appeared to have been taken peacefully and that he was “no longer in Libya.”
The operation to capture Abu Anas was several weeks in the making, a United States official said, and President Obama was regularly briefed as the suspect was tracked in Tripoli. Mr. Obama had to approve the capture. He had often promised there would be “no boots on the ground” in Libya when the United States intervened there in March 2011, so the decision to send in Special Operations forces was a risky one.
A spokesman for the Shabab said that one of their fighters had been killed in an exchange of gunfire but that the group had beaten back the assault. American officials initially reported that they had seized the Shabab leader, but later backed off that account.
A United States official said that no Americans had been killed or wounded and that the Americans “disengaged after inflicting some Shabab casualties.”
Link to article: (http://news.sky.com/story/1150703/al-shabaab-us-forces-abort-somalia-terror-raid)
I found THE story.. :D
BREAKING:
Navy SEALs Capture Terrorist In Somalia,
Or Kill Him,
Or Shit We Don’t Know,
by Paul on October 5, 2013
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/10/seal-team-6-raid-somalia/#ixzz2gwGvRYH6
How is barry going to claim credit for this?
Link to article: (http://news.sky.com/story/1150703/al-shabaab-us-forces-abort-somalia-terror-raid)
Isn't it against the law to claim credit during a shutdown? :D
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/06/us-forces-conduct-2-major-terror-raids/
Same thing happened in Libya, but the unit remains nameless. Hmm.
Nameless, no more: according to AP: ..."it was Within hours of the Somali attack, U.S. Army's Delta Force carried out an attack in Libya........Delta Force carries out operations in North Africa."
And I had just gone to DEVGRU' Facebook page and "liked" this raid.
Utah Bob
10-06-2013, 08:52
I found THE story.. :D
:D:D
[QUOTE=JJ_BPK;525495]How is barry going to claim credit for this?
It's called multitasking, JJ. Plus, the WH has plenty of stock footage of Barry deep in thought in the War Room, making "command descions" from the time that he killed UBL that they can run. Besides, who can say, what's the greatest threat? Republicans or AQ?
Ambush Master
10-06-2013, 09:27
Yep, the SQUEALS had to "Attack To The Rear" on their OP!!
Jersey Dirtbag
10-06-2013, 10:07
Ohhhhhh!
Navy Seals!
Clerks.
Clerks.
All the references to celebrity, tans, weightlifting et al are humorous, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them "clerks". If you've trained with them or fought with them, (I have) or have earned a Trident personally, you can disparage them all you want.
They're outstanding DA guys. Let them be prima donnas if they want, but don't compare them to a non-combat SM.
Very glad that both missions were successful.:lifter
Scimitar
10-06-2013, 10:51
um...yeah...that Fox News report was pretty weak...
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Surgicalcric
10-06-2013, 11:29
Clerks.
To echo Dusty, careful where you step as it may be on your own dick.
Clerks.
Don't think he was calling them "clerks" fellas. He was just naming the movie from the quote that I previously typed.
Don't think he was calling them "clerks" fellas. He was just naming the movie from the quote that I previously typed.
:eek: Glad we weren't asses about it. :D
Utah Bob
10-06-2013, 12:16
Don't think he was calling them "clerks" fellas. He was just naming the movie from the quote that I previously typed.
Then he needs to learn to use Italics.:p
Scimitar
10-06-2013, 12:34
Don't think he was calling them "clerks" fellas. He was just naming the movie from the quote that I previously typed.
And here it is...
You Tube Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kz7_g5cU6w)
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Looks like the swaggering JF Kerry lost a little political capital, after all.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/2013/1006/Failed-Navy-SEALs-raid-on-Somali-target-could-bolster-Al-Shabab-video
A commando unit from the US Navy’s Seal Team Six launched an amphibious raid on a Somali town, but failed to confirm a capture or kill of their Al Shabab target, suspected to be linked to Nairobi’s Westgate mall terror attack.
The operation could have opposite its intended result of discouraging further attacks. Analysts warn that even earlier successful targeted strikes against Al Shabab, a Somalia-based Islamist militant group, failed to curb the group's capacity to carry out international terror attacks, and that failed missions could in fact bolster its support and recruitment.
The predawn raid Saturday came unstuck when the US troops were faced with heavier-than-expected return fire, and pulled out to avoid civilian casualties, two security sources said. No Americans were injured.
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