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Caught On Helmet Cam: US Releases Video Footage From SpecOps ISIS Prison Raid
It would have been bad enough for Washington if Moscow had simply intervened in Syria and left it to the media to speculate and report on the progress made by Iranian ground troops operating under the cover of Russian airstrikes. But subtlety isn’t really Putin’s style and besides, the conflict in Syria represents a once in a lifetime opportunity to lay bare the West’s deplorable strategy of funding and arming extremists on the way to destabilizing recalcitrant regimes.
And so, not wanting to miss a chance at thoroughly embarrassing the West, The Kremlin has unleashed a veritable avalanche of videos, foreign policy critiques, and pronouncements aimed at i) unmasking the role Washington and its regional allies have played in facilitating the rise of Sunni extremism and ii) highlighting the extent to which Russia is the only country that’s actually gotten results in the campaign to eradicate terrorism in Syria. The media blitz encompasses near daily videos from the Russian Defense Ministry, characteristically deadpan (not to mention hilarious) soundbites from Sergei Lavrov, stinging criticism from Moscow’s Western foreign policy critic extraordinaire Maria Zakharova, and of course, plenty of Putin admonishments.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the West has been left dumbfounded. There’s just no way to explain this to the public. There’s no way to rationalize Washington’s insistence on not cooperating with the Russians because the US has spent a year holding up ISIS as the scourge of humanity. There’s also no way to go about apologizing for the fact that Russian airstrikes have achieved more in four weeks than US airstrikes have achieved in 13 months.
Of course the above isn’t entirely accurate. The situation is very easily explainable. Washington could just say this: “look, Russia and Iran are the real enemies here and ISIS is just a bunch of guys we and our Mid-East allies supported initially because we thought they would help oust Assad and break up the Shiite crescent.” But saying that would be to shatter the illusion and because the public must forever be left in the dark, the US has been left to scramble around for ways to salvage the narrative.
Well, in what might reasonably be described as a bizarre story, the Western media has now released what looks like GoPro helmet cam footage from what Washington is trying to call a dramatic rescue effort that freed dozens of hostages from an ISIS prison in the northern Iraqi town of Huwija.
Apparently, the Peshmerga were attempting to free what they thought were Kurdish prisoners whose graves ISIS had (literally) already dug when Delta Force (who were on the scene acting as “advisers”) decided to step in and assist.
The ensuing firefight led to the first American casualty in Iraq since 2011.
Here’s Reuters:
One member of a U.S. special operations force was killed during an overnight mission to rescue hostages held by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, the first American to die in ground combat with the militant group, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
Sixty-nine hostages were rescued in the action, which targeted an Islamic State prison around 7 kilometers north of the town of Hawija, according to the security council of the Kurdistan region, whose counterterrorism forces took part.
The U.S. rescue mission unfolded amid mounting concerns in Washington over increasing Russian intervention in the Middle East.
The hostages rescued in the raid were all Arabs, including local residents and Islamic State fighters held as suspected spies, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
The official told Reuters that around 20 of the hostages were members of Iraqi security forces.
"Some of the remainder were Daesh (Islamic State) ... fighters that Daesh thought were spies," the official said. "The rest of them were citizens of the local town".
More than 20 Islamic State militants were killed and six detained, the security council said.
Islamic State called the operation "unsuccessful" but acknowledged casualties among its fighters.
In a statement distributed online on Thursday by supporters, it said U.S. gunships had shelled areas around the prison to prevent the arrival of reinforcements, then clashed with militants for two hours.
The statement confirmed U.S. claims that some guards had been killed and others detained in the operation.
"Dozens" of U.S. troops were involved in the mission, a U.S. defense official said, declining to be more specific about the number.
"It was a deliberately planned operation, but it was also done with the knowledge that imminent action was needed to save the lives of these people," the U.S. defense official said.
Now obviously, there’s no telling what actually went on here, nor is there any telling what 30 members of Delta Force were doing running around with the Peshmerga in northern Iraq, but one thing is for sure: the US media seems to be trying to counter the Russian propaganda blitz by holding up the Huwija raid and the death of Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler as proof that Washington is serious about battling ISIS.
Here’s AP:
The U.S. soldier fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
"This is someone who saw the team that he was advising and assisting coming under attack, and he rushed to help them and made it possible for them to be effective, and in doing that lost his own life," Carter told a Pentagon news conference.
Carter applauded Army Master Sgt. Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, of Roland, Oklahoma, who died of his wounds Thursday.
The defense chief gave the most extensive public description yet of what transpired during the pre-dawn raid on an Islamic State prison compound near the town of Hawija. About 70 people, including at least 20 members of the Iraqi security forces, were freed. It was the first time U.S. troops had become involved in direct ground combat in Iraq since the war against the Islamic State was launched in August 2014, and Wheeler was the first U.S. combat death.
"As the compound was being stormed, the plan was not for the U.S. ... forces to enter the compound or be involved in the firefight," Carter said. "However, when a firefight ensued, this American did what I'm very proud that Americans do in that situation, and he ran to the sound of the guns and he stood up. All the indications are that it was his actions and that of one of his teammates that protected those who were involved in breaching the compound and made the mission a success."
"That is an inherent risk that we ask people to assume," Carter added. "Again, it wasn't part of the plan, but it was something that he did, and I'm immensely proud that he did that."
Carter went on to suggest that "missions" like these are set to become more commonplace going forward:
Carter said he expects U.S. forces to be involved in more such raids against Islamic State targets, describing it as part and parcel of what the Pentagon calls a "train, advise and assist" mission in support of Iraqi forces. At one point he said, "It doesn't represent assuming a combat role" — but later, in noting that it is difficult to see the full picture of what happened during the Hawija raid, he said: "This is combat. It's complex."
We are of course not attempting to trivialize the death of Joshua Wheeler by writing this off as some kind of publicity stunt aimed at countering the Russian media blitz. In fact, the opposite is true. If the US is now set to ramp up the frequency with which the Pentagon puts American lives at stake by inserting spec ops in ground operations just so Washington can prove to the world that America is just as serious as Russia is about fighting ISIS, well then that's a crying shame for US servicemen; especially considering the role the US and its regional allies had in creating the groups that Delta Force and other units are now tasked with countering.
In any event, here's the helmet cam footage which we'll leave it to readers to analyze and critique.
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I saw Elvis and JFK
I was looking for the Paintball Channel and was given this link.
Business of Religion Government
BORG
More statist chest thumping for invasion.
RIPS
Propaganda volume is now set to 11.
Did I hear "Let's do this for Barack" right before they went in?
Didn't see any bullets flying or blood anywhere.
That thing looked more fake than Caitlyn's snatch.
Directly from Langley studios in VA
check the 17 sec mark , the guy did a poor job of faking
This shit is 100% fake and cheaply made .
Why isn't he described as a "combat" casualty?
If this story follows the arc of most US propaganda, we will find out in a few days that he was killed by friendly fire.
Notice it's someone with a White name... to quell the White domestic terrorists at home no doubt. They should have claimed it was someone named Juan Gutierrez, a transgender faggot from LA. That might have been believable. I don't watch/read anything hosted or posted by nbc. That alone means it's probably fake or at least misleading to some degree.
This is some damn fine propaganda
How much did this stunt cost American taxpayers?
and of course it was on the Progressive Propaganda Network (PPN)
also know as NBC
I didn't see that roaring lion before this production?
Hey you stupid Ministery of Propaganda fucks.
This is what a real battle looks like from a Go-Pro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXr3Ipr3Buk
Hey, if it actually happened, kudos to the operators.
But, there is very little to go on. It could have been filmed anywhere.
Since we have one KIA on our side, I tend to think it is real, particularly because they only rescued town folk and Daesh turncoats, who hopefully have been propery despatched by the Peshmerga by now after extracting "data." The intel was faulty, there were supposed to be Kurdish fighters in the crossbar motel.
Why should the US be putting fine young seppos into Iraq just to save groups of random arabs like this ? Like WHAT THE FUCK ?? Who are these carpet pilots ? why are they so important ?????
This is King Barak trying to look relevant.
Forward (over the cliff)!
Is that the sound of popcorn popping?
Well, that says it all.
Popcorn sounds like it was all the same caliber, which is odd.
Sounded like blanks to me.
What do I know though, I've only fired a few hundred thousand of live and blanks using miliary equipment......
> The ensuing firefight led to the first American casualty in Iraq since 2011.
> Propaganda volume is now set to 11.
Precisely, that's such pathetic bullocks.
ISIS is a US Special Operations unit and that single official casualty that can't be hidden for some reason just confirms that CIA/Academy etc. instructors have been fully engaged in Syria.
This cheap footage is made in some Hollywood settings, and surely it's good enough for the sheeple watching the news somewhere in Cancun, sipping alcohol from their bubba keg mugs and pissing in water by the pool bar all day long (" -Hi, I am from Manitoba, where are from?, -I am from Wisconsin, how ya doin'?").
NO shit, i thought it was nice of ISIS to have prefect lighting for the spec ops go pro camera....also i wonder if they used the same studio as the "beheadings"???
those beheadings videos were some shit weren't they?
looked like the plane flying into the wtc with this little puff of smoke (like roadrunner) coming out.
how much contempt they must have for us to put this shit out.
"...Propaganda volume is now set to 11..."
I agree in principle, Igantius, but not in scale. Four or five, maybe. The reason is because of the staged chaos plan for the Middle East courtesy ZATO and Gulf Cronies. They are pacing themselves for the Kurdish Spring. That will require a 10 or 11.
I don't confess to know everything about the Kurdish situation, but here's my Break it down, Barney-style version:
The U.S. and Israel have had their fangs in Iraqi Kurdistan for a long time. They forced the creation of a fake united Kurdish government and have been stuffing it with thier stooges for years. It's basically Barazani and the KDP as the main bribed stooges, with layers of lesser but equally corrupt minions in billions of useless bureaucratic positions.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga mostly usurped = Kurdish Stazi (for U.S./Israeli scheming)
In the mean time, the U.S. and Israel have usurped the peshmerga to be a kind of Stazi for the fake Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). They didn't have that role a couple of decades ago - the peshmerga were just the Kurdish Army as it were. Farmers and laborers that knew how to use a rifle to protect their land and people. At the time, that was mostly from Hussein and the Baath Party. Today, it's clear that they have been semi-corrupted by inside and outside forces to be a kind of mercenary Stazi for the KRG. The 'other' Kurdish fighters, the PKK rebels, do not fight 'for' the KRG - they fight for Kurdsish independence (primarily from Turkey). The PKK couldn't be corrupted - in fact, they pretty much hate the U.S. and Israel. The peshmerga were just a coalition of local Kurd militia - easy to create a fake command structure and use them for Stazi-type scheming.
No doubt the peshmerga still do have a lot of local, normal Kurds with no ambitions other than security of their land and people. Evidence for peshmerga usurping was seen back with the Yazidi ethnic cleansing. The peshmerga for the most part sat back and did nothing. It was the Rojava that came from Syria to help them and take the survivors in. Once the Yazidi were nearly wiped out, the U.S. and peshmerga mounted a few token operations against the ISIS invaders, but it was way too late. This is NOT the action of the 'old' peshmerga - they would have helped in a heartbeat. The 'new' U.S./Israeli-backed Stazi peshmerga are kept on a much shorter leash. The Yazidi were throw-away people to the U.S. and Israel (and apparently the KRG).
Syrian Kurds - Rojava - have no state Stazi (peshmerga). YPG is the local militia - they are the farmers and working people
The Rojava (Syrian) Kurds and their local militias - the YPG - are also farmers and laborers, just like the Iraqi Kurd peshmerga use to be. The U.S. and Israel mostly didn't bother with them - no oil or gold. Similar to the Yazidi situation, the peshmerga (and the U.S.) did nothing until Kobane was almost wiped out of existence. Then they stepped in at the last possible minute to help the Rojava YPG. The idea was to make the Rojava Kurds indebted to the usurped Iraqi Kurd KRG, and make the YPG subservient to the peshmerga.
U.S./Israel plan to bring Rojava into KRG fold by force and extend Iraqi Stazi peshmerga control over Syrian YPG with fake Rojava peshmerga
The big secret was that during this time, the U.S. and Israel supposedly brought 3000 Rojava over to Iraq and trained them to be peshmerga. In reality, no Rojava interested in defending Kobane would have ever left to join the KRG Stazi. A substantial number of them are just Kurdish mercs from Turkey and everywhere else - they're not even from any of the Syrian Rojava cantons. In fact, the Rojava today will not let the U.S. or Iraqi Kurdistan send these 3000 fake 'Rojava peshmerga' back into Syria. They don't trust them and don't want any 'federal' Stazi fucks marching around giving orders to the local YPG troops that died for their land.
Today: U.S./Israel scheming on how to control the disobedient Rojava and make them subservient to KRG and peshmerga
Plan B: Send in the 3000 mercs trained as fake Rojava peshmerga to retake Raqqa and 'federalize' Kobani
The weapons airdrop? I don't think that went to the Rojava/YPG at all. I think the fake 'Rojava peshmerga' grabbed them for the assault on Raqqa. The U.S. was pissed because the Kobani Kurds (who they almost let get annihilated) just wanted Kobani back. They don't want to be marching all over Syria fighting ISIS. They don't want ISIS in Raqqa, but are not willing to go all the way down there to fight them - it's not part of Kobani canton. The U.S. didn't give the Kobani Kurds shit when they were getting wiped out - no weapons, ammo or anything until the very last minute. The Rojava Kurds don't trust the U.S. one bit. Solution: Send back the 3000 mercs to take Raqqa and (more importantly) take military and political control of the Kobani Kurds.
Ultimate U.S./Israeli plan (requiring 10 or 11): Arab Spring in Turkey/Syria/Iraq/Iran using the puppet KRG to speak for all Kurds (when they do nothing of the sort).
Rojava Kurds won't behave? No problem - fake peshmerga Stazi can take them out. Arabs, Turkmen, Yazidi or other 'foreigners' living in fake New Kurdistan borders? No problem - peshmerga Stazi-assisted ethnic cleansing. Start Arab Spring. Plenty of Academi/Xe snipers in Turkey to get the party started. MSM weepy narrative about 'Kurdish Homeland'. Demonizing of YPG and local militias, while glorifying usurped Stazi peshmerga as 'freedom fighters'.
Result: Continued supply of discounted Kurdish oil for Israel; Kurdish corridor from Mediterranean to Iran for THAT planned bombing campaign. For the U.S.: another corrupt, puppet regime (the KRG) to do their bidding in the area.
It goes to 19.
seemingly excellent detail. thanks
no kidding, Russians and BHO are competing for film of the events ? Notice all small arms were semi auto, not auto. Much more effective, but was it real ? I imagine most of you here at ZH would have shit your pants immediately. This is not fight club any longer thats for sure ! Pussies.
the concept of a virtual fight club is more than a little silly just to start with.
more like a yelling club.
So the film segment shows Special Forces heroically facing unarmed opposition? How did the US guy meet his end? Friendly fire? Did the US Special Forces decide to 'assist' without informing the Peshmerga beforehand? That strikes me as a spectacularly bad idea.
More people died at Sandy Hook and Umpqua than this operation.
Meaning, its all fake.
It was just a sleepover, those guys were in their nightshirts, and someone decided on some Jiffy-pop, that's all the crackling you hear in the background.
Either that or some muzzie cherry assholes were being popped by the Great Muslim In Chief.
All Hail Obutthurt.
Put some Air Jorans on them at least!
Such cynical posts and many here wondering why Zero Hedge is losing its appeal.
Anyway, great video and sound quality.
Can’t say the same about the comments above.
Are you off your meds? You don't sound like you anymore. Or, are you like the Tylers now - as in plural.
Easy there, cowboy!
Tyler(s) is/are doing God’s work.
Not since Marla left, no.
Btw, "Easy there cowboy" does not sound like the old Escrava Isaura either.
imo the tylers are a little too easy on the great sinner israel, as was marla.
The world is full of people who imagine they have something to say.
Why should it be any different here?
Then go post on some nbc forum or comment section with the other degenerates and brain-dead retards.
The item that bothers me is there is no live fire shown. Somebody could have been off stage popping rounds for all we know. I sure hope it was a legit raid, but Vlad is now in charge, Uncle Scam. Another week or two, and the US will probably be kicked out of Iraq and the Red Army/Air Force will move in and do a real actual job on these retards.
As long as there's a "seven of nine" for me I'm ok with the Borg.
Heh heh. Three of two.
Mine's a 99
The U.S. soldier fatally wounded in a hostage rescue mission in Iraq heroically inserted himself into a firefight to defend Kurdish soldiers, even though the plan called for the Kurds to do the fighting, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday.
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My bullshit detector just exploded and fused itself to my desk.
his very name evokes weenyness.
reminds me of mcnamara without the business experience.
In the future, your real life will be a bad ass massively multiplayer first person shooter game. You read it here first. Prepare accordingly.
How come they never show us film or videos of the CIA and Unocal arming and paying off the Taliban?
Or all those Toyota trucks shipped to ISIS?
Or money and arms to al Qaeda in Syria?
Or Jamie Dimon's visits to the White House?
Or Jeffrey Immelt in Iran?
Or Dick Cheney in Iran?
Or President Obama's stealthy roving ambassador to extradite Assange in his many visits to Sweden, Karl Rove?
Just this stuff . . .
????????
[Today's Question: Is John Forbes-Winthrop-Dudley Kerry by any chance related to Bill Dudley over at the FRBNY?]
The ISIS oil trucks heading for Turkey.
Propaganda!! Rev up those electric scooters 'murrica were goin to war (again)
I'm more than proud to ride my fat whale ass down the aisles of Walmart buying "Made in the USA" products on my Lil Rascal.
Cue Lee Greenwood.
Lee's still trying to find a decent razor . . .
https://www.leegreenwood.com/
No Israeli colonels were captured, or killed, in the making of this video.
Video is Rita Katz approved?
It looks fake to me:
1) look how new the doors are - look freshly painted. ISIS must have a great budget for infrastructure.
2) look how beautifully painted the walls are - with STRIPES no less!
3) notice the carefully placed ISIS black flag - just so happens to be in very room the rescue takes place in! Almost as good as the Star of David and the word "Juden" in the movie "Monument Men" (perhaps the same writer!)
4) the prisoners looks fake too.
5) what were the outtakes? why does it start right before the prisoner model walk with their new looking clothes (all very similar and very clean)
It really does look bad. This is like JV Team propaganda.
You didn't think Uncle Sam spends your tax dollars on Halliburton's "budget" line of prison facilities just so that it can conveniently "lose" them to marauding "terrorists".
Or that said marauding "terrorists" would not hire top dollar interior decorators to complement their PR & video post production teams with that massive CIA/petrodollar allowance?
What part of the broken window fallacy should "they" not follow in order to get your stamp of approval?
Thank you for your helpful and constructive comments.
You can be assured in our subsequent phony propaganda videos we will not make those mistakes again.
Ash Carter
As a conscious decision, Mrs. chunga doesn't follow current events very closely. She burst out laughing this morning when she saw it on TV.
It was starting to look like the Sandy Hook operation where all the crisis actors were running in one set of doors and out another set and around the building to run back in the same set of doors they went through the first time.
that and i didnt realize till recently that zero witnesses heard gunfire next door. zero acknowledgement of the 30 or more shots. Any shooters in here? Hell yea
flapdoodle,
I don’t think it’s paint on the ceiling. Perhaps aluminum. Hard to say.
The floor is painted in a glossy finish.
All the walls (with stripes) were some kind of aluminum/zinc. It's not wallpapper. Factory painted.
What a totally new sort of nutcake you have become EI. Why would you believe these people? Look, in the corner at :32 - That's the filing cabinet with the missing, original Moon Landing tapes and Lois Lehrner's missing backup tapes too.
Not only was it fake but low budget too. Langly didn't even bother to buy the "prisoners" Nikes
One other "odd" tidbit of information...
"US soldier killed by ISIS, the Pentagon wont call it combat" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/22/u-s-soldier-killed-by-i...
Is that like when the FBI never had Bin Laden on its most wanted list for lack of evidence?
US propaganda machine kicking into high gear now that Putin is doing what they didn't do for 13 months, at huge expence to the US taxpayer.
More than likely this video shoot cost more to make than all the wars going back to WW1.
If this is high gear, it's not going to be much of a race.
Bullish on bullets.
The build up to putting a bunch of US ground troops in the wrong place at the wrong time and have a Russian air strike kill them all so we can really ramp things up?
Who is to say that wasn't what really happened to our casualty? If we lost one to the Russians, it would be very bad PR, especially if he was where he officially should not have been, doing what he officially should not have been doing.
Sgt E-8 Wheeler was the real deal, and deeply involved in ME operations under the Special Operations Command in Ft. Bragg. His team could have been operating anywhere in the world, doing almost anything you could imagine. He was a highly valued U.S. asset, and a very busy one. Check him out.
In February 1997 , he transitioned to Company B , 2 n d Bat talion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash ington , where he ser ved for over seven years as an infantryman, r ifle team leader, squad l eader, weapons squad leader, and a nti - t ank section l eader , deploying three times in support of combat operat ions in Afgh anistan and Iraq. Wheeler was assigned to U.S. Army Special Operations Command in 2004 , and deployed 11 times in support of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wheeler’s military education includes the Basic Airborne Course, Ranger School, Warrior Leader Cour se, Static Line Jumpmaster, Military Mountaineering Course, Basic and Advanced Demolition Courses, Advanced Urban Combat Training, Advanced Marksmanship Techniques, Clo se Range Tactical M4 Training , Infantry Advanced Leader’s Course, the Surviva l, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (Level C) Course , Infantry Senior Leader’s, Military Free Fall Course, and the Military Free Fall Jumpmaster Course. Master Sergeant Wheeler’s awards and decorations i nclude four Bronze Star Medal s with Valor Device , seve n Bronze Star Medal s , the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor Device, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, seven Army Commendation Medal s , the Joint Service Achie vement Medal, As of 21 Oct., 2015 eight Army Achievement Medal s , the Good Conduct Medal (6th Award), the National Defense Service Medal with Bronze Service Star, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 3 Bronze Service Stars, the Iraq Campaign Medal with 6 Bronze Service Stars, t he Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon (3rd Award), the Army Service Ribbon, the Presidential Unit Citation, the Valorous Unit Award (2nd Award) , the Ranger Tab, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge, and three Overseas Service Bars. Master Sergeant Wheeler was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.Sadly, he is going home on a midnight flight because the theater strategy is bogus and the mission objective is fubar. Immigration could have used his help securing the border for folks who actually do the paperwork and play by the rules but I guess a Jessica Lynch style PR campaign was more important to TPTB-COM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Lynch
Excellent, timely reminder.
Those fellows will fit in perfectly in Germany or Sweden. However, they might want to put on a pair of shoes up there since it gets kinda cold.
Yep vlad made the boys at Langley and centcom look bad. And exposed the scam of fighten terrist . Dragging it out for profit etc. so now the damage control starts.
If I were a cynic, and going by usa's past known MO, I'd be thinking that those were isis prisoners aka Assets. Being liberated from an Iraqi prison. Seeing as everying we get told usually means the opposite.
We've reached the point the State will tell you straight up.. but they expect you're too edumacated (or distracted by iCrap) to understand what they're actually saying:
It's much clearer without the obfuscatory extra words.
Saw it also released on US-MSM sunday shows. The vibe was "a drill went live"
Putin has tripped Obama hard onto the sand, has climbed on his back and is now rubbing his face into the dirt.
All happening in near real time, for all to see.
Wither Pax Americana /sarc
Thats very smelly sand. More like rubbing his nose in his own shit.
The RoW sees it just fine, but the exceptional sheeple seem blissfully unaware.
Pax Amercana cannot fight the whole world, and the myth of US invincibilty is being
trampled in that same pile of shit.
A carrier group sunk would seal the deal right now, but nobody would be foolish enough to
send one into someone elses kill zone surely.
Oh wait....
Amen, great comment. I've been harping over at TF for years now exactly what you proposed, that the 'enemy' doesn't need superior military strength...it only needs to know how to quickly sink 2 carriers. Boobus Americanus psyche would be crushed like a singularity, and at that point, to paraphrase KD: America will be sitting on 10,000 nuclear weapons and nothing else.
KA-BOOM
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/important-things-are-not-f...
Just a reminder that acts == causes and have multiple effects which are causes of other multiple effects and why did our intelligent and farsighted leaders decide to use negative-sum strategies?
We never see a discussion of the fundamentals, only questions framed to prevent that. More troops or less troops, never "positive-sum only or stupidity" frames like mine.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/10/02/previous-episodes-of-zealo...
The questions you don't get around to asking are the important ones.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/measures-of-propagandas-ef...
This shows how special operators operate. ISIS and other terrorists are grateful for sharing this.
Training is the same all over the world. The difference is the level of trainiing and execution. Personal make the difference. You have coward bullies you get your ass kicked.
Training is most definitely not the same everywhere. See Saker blog for detailed example. Synopsis - US training assumes air cover. Assumes air superiority. Training shows how to work with air strikes and mop up after. Notice the initial US reaction to the Russian campaign. Everything stays the same, but No more training. Could this have come from the "moderate terrorists" saying something like "We don't have time for that nonsense anymore."? Notice the US trained the Iraqi Army folded like a lawn chair.
Even worse, the video appears to show faces of spec ops guys. Fuckin' brilliant.
Just once I'd like to see a political appointee go on one of these missions and then decide whether releasing such content makes sense.
Really? If they can glean all that much from that video imagine what they could glean from watching what I call "police state teevee"
Every night on every channel you can watch some boot stomping SS action usually dealt out at the hands of a petite "bad ass" actor kicking the living shit out of a white male "home grown terrorist" threatening our precious freedumb.
A few sacrificial ISIS lambs for the Public Relations campaign of the USSA. ISIS is a creation of western intelligence agencies, so we had good intel. Obviously every terrorist couldn't be in on the game of this Public Relations prison raid, so the raid had a genuine aspect and unfortunately a patriot died, thinking he is defending his country when in reality he is a disposable pawn at the behest of our elites. This whole war on terror is a fucking charade.
Sorry but no soldier fighting today in the USSA mil is "defending" their country, that's propagandist bullshit....other than Maybe fighting in WW2, the rest of them were a fucking MIC/Bankster joke....You ain't defending shit other Goldmansachs, Halliburton and Exxon's bottom line....that should be obvious to all....
There was also this book by a guy in the know, called "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler, he flat out states this, and it was published in 1935...so i don't really know how anyone can still believe that same bullshit line over and over...
Barely even during WW2, google the BIS & NAZIs...we've been played for fools over millenia, not a recent phenomenon.
that was fucking boring...
It looked more like a sausage pyjama party...
Boring indeed, check out these Russian Hinds raiding ISIS positions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_KnT2yTsLI
Yeah, they all saw Oboner and decided the ass rapin' wasn't worth it to get their freedumb and started runnin'.
Let's make war look like a video game. We need to get more of our kids buying into their role as fodder.
Fuck GUS. (Government, US)
Filmed in Kalifornistan at Studio B is more like it....
Did that Kathleen Hurt Locker woman direct this fucking shit?
would explain a lot
So the revolution will be televised?
I'm pretty sure there are only 5 or 6 guys who keep circling around back and running past the camera again with their hands up.
ok without replaying that video I laughed my ass off to that
All it needed was that little bald guy from Benny Hill and it woulda been complete.
and yakkety sax...
I was thinking Fred Flintstone
It's hard to see in this particular video (especially with a helmet cam) but remember this -- you can spot a fake or staged video easily by watching the camera-work. Experienced cinematographers have a long list of standard techniques that they use instinctively. One example is a smooth and well framed zoom sequence that can take years of training to perfect. Number one however is this -- A professional has to FORCE his video to look amateurish. Usually these attempts are very obvious because they are unnatural for a pro. Put simply, watch the camerawork. The worse it is the more fake it could be.
Bullshit. If you believe this shit you need a labotomy.
Bestiality much ?
Lobotomy, or don't you like labs ?
Hahaha my auto correct is working for the zee Russians I guess
Hahaha my auto correct is working for the zee Russians I guess
I think someone has already had a lobotomy if they believe the shit in that video.
I mean no criticism of your brilliant piece about the raid on the ISIL prison in northern Iraq by combined US and Peshmerga forces but ...
Whether this means the US has seized a trove of damning evidence to destroy about their dishonorable relationship with ISIS or this is merely grounds for planting the seeds of Western bullshit propaganda that the MSM will soon tuck their napkins into their collars to greedily devour and regurgitate into the faces of their readers, we'll have to wait for Snowden to tell us.
What we do know from the release of the tape operation is only that the US has begun it's devastating counteroffensive:
Unfortunately, for the US to score more points, they have to cause more deaths. Land of the free, and home of the brave. I'm sick of being sold. Yankee go home.
Somewhere on a back lot in Burbank...
Transparent manufactured news to distract from the pre-planned failure of the non existent bombing campaign against ISIL that inflicted zero damage on terrorist infrastructure but did displace millions of Syrian civilians as intended, and did destroy massive amounts of civil infrastructure. In Syria's largest city massive damage was done to make sure the civilians got the message and got moving. You do know that don't you? We know now thanks to the Russians air campaign that not one of ISIL, or other terrorist organisatios' fortified bunkers and arms depots had ever recieved a scratch from a bombing campaign that lasted 13 months. What that campaign did do was destroy civilian infrastructure, and kill civilians, en masse, knowing that the level of civilian casulties and infrastructure destruction would be the best way to ensure the battered Syrians would turn against their lawful government.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151025/1029090443/us-coalition-syria-i...
+1000! You nailed it! The USSA was caught flat footed by the Russian blitz. The air campaign showed the world that ISIS was created by the USSA & Israel and funded by Saudia Arabia. This was a poorly planned story and shodily thrown together. USSA propaganga is getting so bad it's laughable. Did the soldier really die in this operation? I don't think so but if he did my condolences to his family.
I have a friend whose son is a member of Delta Force and he shared this info with me. First, they are made up of the best of the best, Seals, Rangers, etc. They are covert, that is they are segregated at Bragg. Their unit recognizes no rank; they operate as a team. Their deployment is secret. No one, even family, knows when they leave or when they return and they certainly don't know what the mission was. Why would the USSA admit that they were in Iraq? Why is this story all over the MSM?
I'm sure Vlad is laughing his ass off at this bull shit story! The USSA is desperate and grasping at straws! Sad indeed!
Rita Katz. The go to zio-witch for Zionist Productions, Inc.
You mean rabid foaming at the mouth humanity hating worm Zio-witch?
Canada is the new Burbank. Eh!
Shit.
Another friendly fire incident.
Fake & gay, probably staged or they raided random civilian and claimed ISIS victory. Why would they do that if they support them, they think we stupid?
yes
WTF is this - a jihadi fire drill?
Allah Akbar
Mother Fucker
Did anyone notice someone saying "Cut, that's a wrap!" at the end of the video?
VERY NICE.
So now when do we get to see helmet cam footage from Abbotabad??
Movies are fake.
The raid is obviously timed by Obama and Hitlery to distract people from the Benghazi hearings ("hey, we really rescued SOME hostages") . The Repubs are assiduously avoiding the real issues involved which was that the US ambassador was the US operative involved in shipping Libyan jihadists and their weapons into Turkey for transit into Syria.
The Kurdish permega actually entered the compound while US special forces stayed outside. Four Kurds were wounded and Sgt Wheeler killed when he ran towards the compound for some reason but likely because the Kurdish SF were in trouble. He has numerous Bronze stars, 17 deployments...etc...and four kids who will miss him.
One commenter on youtube had this to say:
"Although raid was "supervised" by US troops, there are none of them in this footage. Those are alla kurdish SF with PVS7 nods, standard usgi norotos mount and anpeq2a, not used anymore by US Special Forces."
Could be just a sceene from a movie.........Those people in white gowns could be just FEMA actors. How can one be sure these days that what is shown in the media is true and indeed happened in real life and was not filmed in a Hollywood studio? Just to remind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98JDKB-Qmxs
Wackoism.
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Revisionist lock.
The Russian propaganda here gets funnier every day. The bare fact is that US ground forces stage a daring, dangerous raid, and rescused dozens of ISIS hostages. Meanwhile, the Russians are out bombing whoever threatens their pet dictator, and then calling the target ISIS.
The Russian propaganda is nowhere near as funny as yomutti's reading of current events.
Yomutti is a distinguished bullpooper from the Josef Gobbels Institute of Fine Lies in Washington, DC.
Peshmerga with Kentucky accents. Did not know that.
Um why are those guys wearing dresses? Sort of impractical for prison?
It's the best way to conceal their Waffen SS uniforms.
hoping it doesn't happen, but... the probability of russia, ussa, turkey and, or israel inadvertently shooting down an attack aircraft fighter that seems to be in the wrong place, but in the desired target zone of a classic casus belli...[?] via, plausible deniablity!
Why is this even being issued?
After 15 years of global secret wars why would the White House order JSOC to release video of a mission where SOF were killed?
Because central props had a black flag of al qaida hanging around the jihadi clubhouse?
Bizzaro world?
The last time we saw something like this it was to rescue Jessica Lynch.
RIP
If I were a young man considering military service, and I saw this video, I would have to ask myself, "What the living fuck is the point of all that? That operation accomplished nothing significant whatsoever, and would have put my life in danger pointlessly if I had been there. Our military is run by a bunch of fucking idiots to boot, and I do not want to work for idiots."
US releases Green Screen BULLSHIT Footage while Russia is "Getting It Done" in Syria and now Iraq. US Propaganda is FUCKING PATHETIC! Nuff Said.
Why now? Because Putin is Shaming Obama in Syria and Obozzo is losing the Propagana War Narrative. This is so Fucking Obvious to the most Casual Observer.
I plowed through all those popup just to see that obviously staged bull shit!
Whaaaaat? The recruiter never told me that they shoot BACK at you!.....
Do you like how their(Gov/media) are plastering the photo and name of the ONE soldier kill in the operation but when multiple doctors and patients were killed in the Afgan hospital bombing their just faceless nameless casualties!
So much Hollywood, Jessica Lynch style.
Ain't buying it.
How long before we get the real story, or will we have to endure the movie first?
hmmmmm I'm sold. On what, I am not certain. But I'm sold. USA, USA, USA! Pass me a beer, dah futbawl game is starten.
Swear to God I seen Forest Gump in there.