SEALs at it again

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Hearing reports that they have killed the leader of Al Shabaab.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10357752/Western-special-forces-raid-al-Shabaab-stronghold-in-Somalia.html

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More info. Twin raids in Africa.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/05/20833640-two-raids-in-two-countries-net-two-of-the-worlds-most-wanted-terrorists?lite

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Go get 'em boys!

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I didn’t see SEALs mentioned specifically, but don’t complain when after killing scores of women and children in a mall, a group of well armed men who train to shoot people like you in the face show up to say hello.

Works for me.

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That is sig line worth material there. :lol:

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Heard he was captured. Either way this is very good news, a strike at the heart of evil.

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I’ll be here all weekend. Tips accepted. :moil:

But seriously, there’s only one thing zealots of that ilk understand, and it was not a group of poorly trained store looting Kenyans who showed up to pay a visit. Gives the warm and fuzzies it does.

Personally, I don’t need to know exactly who did it, I don’t need to know how they did it, and I don’t require a vid of them doing it.

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Go Navy!

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Navy SEAL team targeted a senior leader of the Shabab militant group in a raid on his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on Saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility…

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Nobody ****s with our President’s hometown . . . NOBODY!

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Funny shit Moose-Knuckle!!!

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I’m gonna need you to paypal me for a new keyboard .

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Bravo Zulu to the warriors that performed the missions. I hope they all returned home safely and unharmed.

And then had a very well-deserved tasty beverage.

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Another one bites the dust!

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  1. I’m glad it happened, and was apparently executed well. Kudos.

  2. I wish that specific elements of the Special Operations community were not identified after these events.

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Bravo Zulu!

This is all we need to know.

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ROFL!

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Yeah…that.

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More fidelity. Two raids, 1 SEAL team, 1 Delta. SEALs abort, Delta gets their HVT. No U.S. casualties. Regardless, something tells me there are many terrorists who are not sleeping very well these days. :cool:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-forces-hit-extremists-behind-e-africa-attacks-011046451.html

A U.S. Navy SEAL team swam ashore near a town in southern Somalia before militants of the al-Qaida-linked terrorist group al-Shabab rose for dawn prayers, U.S. and Somali officials told The Associated Press. The raid on a house in the town of Barawe targeted a specific al-Qaida suspect related to the mall attack, but the operation did not get its target, one current and one former U.S. military official told AP…But this time, SEAL Team Six members encountered fiercer resistance than expected so after a 15-20 minute firefight, the unit leader decided to abort the mission and they swam away, the official said.

Within hours of the Somalia attack, the U.S. Army’s Delta Force carried out a raid in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to seize a Libyan al-Qaida leader wanted for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 220 people, the military official said…The Pentagon identified the captured al-Qaida leader as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, who has been on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list since it was introduced shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks

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I was kinda figuring that CAG was in on the Tripoli op.

Wonder if the Al-Shabaab op was DEVGRU or “regular” SEAL platoons? ETA—read the link above and see that they’re saying it was DEVGRU.