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US Attempted To Rescue James Foley, Other ISIS Hostages, Failed Because "Hostages Were Not Present"
If there was one thing the Obama administration did not need as it is careening from one international crisis to another, was compounding comparisons to the Carter administration and its botched attempt to rescue US hostages in 1980 Iran also known as Operation Eagle Claw. Well, as of moments ago, that comparison is now in play following what the Pentagon just revealed was a botched attempt to recue a number of American hostages held by ISIS, "early this summer." The reason why the mission failed: "tho hostages were not there." Why? "We don’t know. And that’s the truth. When we got there, they weren’t there. We don’t know why that is."
From the spokesperson for the State Department Marie Harf:
The United States attempted a rescue operation recently to free a number of American hostages held in Syria by ISIL. This operation involved air and ground components and was focused on a particular captor network within ISIL. Unfortunately, the mission was not successful because the hostages were not present at the targeted location. We put the best of the United States military in harms way to try and bring our citizens home.
And from ABC:
U.S. special operations forces early this summer launched a secret, major rescue operation in Syria to save James Foley and a number of Americans held by the extremist group ISIS, but the mission failed because the hostages weren’t there, senior administration officials told ABC News today.
President Obama authorized the “substantial and complex” rescue operation after the officials said a “broad collection of intelligence” led the U.S. to believe the hostages were being held in a specific location in the embattled Middle Eastern nation.
When “several dozen” U.S. special operation members landed in Syria, however, they were met with gunfire and “while on site, it became apparent the hostages were not there,” one of the officials said. The special operators engaged in a firefight in which ISIS suffered “a good number” casualties, the official said, while the American forces suffered only a single minor injury.
The American forces were able to get back on helicopters and escape.
“Intelligence is not a perfect science,” the senior official said. As to how the intelligence failed and why the hostages were not there, the official said, “The truth is, we don’t know. And that’s the truth. When we got there, they weren’t there. We don’t know why that is.”
Much about the daring mission itself remains a secret -- officials said they did not want to reveal too much about the rescue attempt for fear of spoiling future efforts.
“It was conducted, but was not ultimately successful,” a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
The operation was what senior government officials described as a major undertaking -- involving special operations forces from multiple branches of the military, helicopters, fixed-wing airplanes, and surveillance aircraft.
One can see why the US tried to keep this mission secret, unless of course it was all fabricated overnight.
In other words, we tried to rescue some folks... from the other folks we gave weapons and training to for the past two years, the same folks we are also now trying to kill.
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Complete and utter bullshit from the Obama administration. Goto the FBI most wanted site.
What about Steven Joel Sotloff? August 4, 2013. Obama, are you planning to use old hostages to transform your liberal base to war movement?
/you are truly a lying gay bathhouse faggot, color doesn't matter. Your nigger friends in Ferguson have figured you out as well. Oakland, CA, thanks for keeping it real. Don't riot
The nigger in da white house crib is a bad man. The banking community is going to be at odds in voting our next US President. When the revolution begins, the banking heads will not be available for voting. They'll either be dead or hiding like a Jew during the Nazi War. Banking crimes are always the culprit. Don't kid yourself.
I listened to journalist Robert Fisk. Fisk writes for the Independent Newspaper (UK) and has spent years reporting from the Middle East where he reported from Lebanon War, Iraq/Iran war, Gulf War I and II. He's a widely respected journalist.
Fisk made the point yesterday on radio that ISIS have captured a lot of American military hardware abandoned by the Iraqi army when ISIS began their offensive in June 2014.
Fisk made the rather alarming point that there is evidence to suggest that ISIS have recruited several former officers of Saddam's army. These officers are involved in strategic operation of ISIS forces and providing training to use the catured American military hardware.
I think that goes without saying.
If you listen to the Yadzis talking, their neighbours in their towns welcomed the ISIL and were tasked to kill the Yadzis.
Also, Obama claims ISIL is the US's junior varsity team over in Syria. It makes you wonder. Obama gives them weapons but cannot ask for the Americans to be returned?
Don't Fret Folks: The White House and the State Department are working overtime on some really, really harsh #Hashtags to make ISIS comply with all of Obama's demands.
#DIGUPOURGIRLS
http://www.examiner.com/article/report-isis-terrorists-split-woman-two-w...
Duke Nuk'em
There is NO comparison here. Non-story.
Read about the crashed helicopter, dead crew men, faulty equipment and bungled operation in Iran before you weigh in.
No wonder they had to kill Foley ... They didn't want the US to come back
Why announce this?
Why now?
OBAMA RESIGNS.
SIGNED UP FOR Q SCHOOL
Q School ... didn't know you had to sign up just come out
Our intel is wonderful isn't it. James Clapper is in the crapper.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -William Casey
American public not US public.
US public has believed for decades.
Pass the remote.
We went to kill Bin laden in pakistan 3 years ago -and he wasn't there either. he had been dead for years. But the good news is we killed one of his CIA doubles -he was an evil man too.
I'm sure the Foley family wishes Team Obama's mission would have been successful.
Iraq: Mission Accomplished
Race is not the issue within the United States of America. Political US corruption and Ponzi banking scams loot the global community.
This is not a race war as the two niggers passing around a donation basket lead you to believe. Their careers are over. Once the Afro-American sees what we been telling them, opposition, segregation, and divide strategy.
We love our country. Don't fall for the Eric Holder Bullshit. Often I use comedy to shutdown progressive agenda. My nigger friends can comically turn a MSM breaking Newz story upside-down.
We don't fight, co-exist by helping others understand. I'm just a cracker who has good nigger comedy friends
Fuck off Political police fuck sticks. Don't forget to wear your gas mask.
Atomizer,
How does your brain work?
You wrote: "Race is not the issue..."
Then, "the two niggers..."
And you did not stopped there: "My nigger friends can comically turn a MS...
Then, you end: "Don't forget to wear your gas mask."
Now, tell us: How is nonsense any better than MS nonsense?
"We tried to unload the firearm before we pulled the trigger."
Pull my finger so I can release CO2. I'm a Global Disruptive Terrorist.
/sarc
Obama told ISIS "If you want your' hostage you can keep him." Only this time he wasn't full of shit.
Well, if he were Tyler (Durden), he would have got up, packed up shop, and gone somewhere else to be recaptured.
If all the NSA madness works, how could this possibly happen????
I thought they knew when a platypus farted in a northern Australian stream.
Just thinking out loud.
Zero Dark Forty - and counting
It should have went something like this
Dear ISIS,
We're having a rescue party!
R.S.V.P.
Barry
al Baghdadi is unlikely to be an MI5 asset (UK domestic spooks), maybe he's MI6 (UK global spooks).But false flags and manufactured terror plots are their speciality to maintain "fear" levels in Britain.
On the other hand, it could just as easily be disinformation, spread around by MI6, CIA or Mossad for purposes of undermining his authority among his faithful followers within IS. Or he may have been an asset but has now gone off script etc.
The only sensible way for the West to deal with him is as an enemy based upon the atrocities being committed under his command.
Failed because they had to spend 3 months haggling with lawyers to work out the "rules of engagement ".
I've said for the last 5 years that the ONE, SINGLE THING that Obomba had actually accomplished was to make us all wish for the return of Jimmy Carter...
the stories are awlays the same.
USA "almost" got Bin Alladin twice, but he slipped right under their noses as he gave his phone to his leitenant and that is how they were traking the wrong person.
Jessica Lynch "bravely fought" her captors but it turned out the whole story was a fantasy fabrication.
Bin Alladin wasn't really hiding, he was in Pakistan next to a military base and was killed in a heroic raid and we never saw the photos but it turned out it was the Pakistan special fprces and NOT the USA who did the hard work
USA sure loves to tell itself Hollywood style fantasy fables. No wonder Americans cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Our spooks watched me beat off to porn the other night from my laptop's webcam, but they can't locate the hostages? How pathetic.
You must have been THAT good. LOL
Emperor Obombya drinking game
1. Take a shot or toke every time he says "folks"
2. Ditto online for every photo where he has that pursed lip grimace of ennui
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen." - Nietzche
With a "Bozo" leader as President, what do you expect?
WE went in to get the WMD and it was gone too. I just stop believing any of it.
Much cynicism below. Might be right; I don't know.
If real, the chaos involved in the attempt is extreme. Most missions like this come up empty. Nature of the game and the territory.
the best friend of foley is all over the bbc
paul conroy repeating darkness into light meme at leat 6 times.
yes sir darkness into light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vScqrVRJbHA&list=UUV_J8--LzIOSSH5nkW06WSQ
"'JOURNALIST' PAUL CONROY IS MI6 OPERATIVE"http://aangirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/journalist-paul-conroy-is-mi6-op...
if his best friend is mi6 who was foley
"We got busy listening in on American citizens, and sort of lost track of where the hostages were. Hey, we can't keep track of everything, so we have to prioritize."
Honestly, we have to get back to real missions with adults in charge of the plan. We are on the edge of a political event soon.
The world is imploding and people are too fucking busy dumping ice buckets on their heads for ALS. Great cause and all I am sure, but stroke an online check or something and quit wasting time and fucking water and ice (energy).
I'm shocked that Californian's aren't appaled at the waste of water that the water challenged folks of the world could use. The narrative is that we are running out of the stuff yet all the buckets of water being wasted is not applauded by all. Typical that depending on who and why something is wasted determines who is ridiculed or heralded.
Is there anything the government could have done that wouldn't earn Zero Hedge's undying ridicule?
end the fed
Function in an intellectually honest and effective fashion perhaps.
Public hari-kari and voluntary divestment of all ill-gained proceeds?
Obama has channeled Bush enough. Now he's channeling Carter.
In the new Merican Meritocracy, guys who can get the job done like Ross Perot get shit-canned 'with extreme prejudice.'
WTF is the point of having the NSA if they can't monitor fucking terrorists? Are they paying themselves millions and using billions just to listen to white trash talk about Obama's birth certificate?
Sure, they did not know, where are the hostages.
Sure, they must first spy on merkel and the whole world, including Occupy and Tea Party.
Then there are no resources left for the real mission and figth the militants.
Or, give me a minute, was this another script by CIA and State Department, like Benghazi?
Because they WEREN'T there? And the beheading was staged? Don't you hate ISIS now?
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