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| Overnight attack that killed Al-Baghdadi raises many questions |
| 2019-10-28 |
[Jpost] A nighttime raid. Helicopters. Special forces. A high-value terrorist target. Concerns about identifying him. All this would have been on the list of challenges facing the Bin Laden raid planners in 2011. On Sunday morning, it was another group of Americans hunting ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which had to go through the same complex set of obstacles to kill the bearded bully boy hiding out in Idlib province near the The raid began just after midnight when locals in towns near Barisha, just a few kilometers from the |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Good thing nobody is asking about the Quaid Class Tunneling Transports. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-10-28 17:41 |
| #7 All those questions are bull. The big questions are: When will the boys be home and where can we meet to buy them all shots of Jack! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-10-28 13:34 |
| #6 No more questions. Thank you. Now on to the next. Find and eliminate Bagdadi's successor, the "Destroyer." |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-10-28 10:02 |
| #5 Almost certainly the helicopters were loaded in Israel. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-10-28 09:01 |
| #4 Or was everyone in the dark? How could US helicopters operate so close to Turkey’s border and not trigger Ottoman Turkish air defense, unless Turkey was in the loop? Did the helicopters fly from Incirlik or from another base? Bin Laden raid redux. Please, no more questions. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-10-28 04:51 |
| #3 When you don't know why actions are taken, they can seem "erratic". Only an idiot decides they know everything and thus "erratic" represents the other guys stupidity. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-10-28 04:33 |
| #2 In my opinion, these are questions the answers to which are best left to the public imagination. How who knew what and what placed whom where ? One word - Spooks. Salute. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-28 03:46 |
| #1 Lots of dumb questions. The US got the intel on the guy and acted on it. Disinformation helps. Read Sun Tzu again. And al Baghdadi is still dead. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-10-28 00:39 |