SEAL, American Girl Die in First Trump-Era U.S. Military Raid

[deminks]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/seal-american-girl-die-first-trump-era-u-s-military-n714346

In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday — one a member of SEAL Team 6 and the other the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike five years ago.

The raid in southern Yemen, conducted by the supersecret Joint Special Operations Command, was intended to capture valuable intelligence, specifically computer equipment, according to a senior U.S. military official. Three al Qaeda leaders were killed, according to U.S. officials.

Contrary to earlier reporting, the senior military official said, the raid was Trump's first clandestine strike — not a holdover mission approved by President Barack Obama. The mission involved "boots on the ground" at an al Qaeda camp near al Bayda in south central Yemen, the official said.

"Almost everything went wrong," the official said.

(snip)

Defense Secretary James Mattis had to leave one of Washington's biggest annual social events, the Alfalfa Club Dinner, to deal with the repercussions, according to the official. He did not return.

(end snip)

[Ilsa]

1. He said he wanted to kill their families.

I guess that 8 year old girl was a threat to dickless Donald.

[Tanuki]

12. .....

[Docreed2003]

27. Such a beautiful child....

[Ilsa]

29. A beautiful, happy child.

[karynnj]

13. OMG - I had not thought of that reprehensible statement

I assume that this was just a very bad operation. Not to mention, because he is dead -- it is not like the statement. But, that statement will - I assume - have a long and unhappy life.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Is this a "win"?

Assholes.

[C_U_L8R]

3. "Almost everything went wrong"

It seems the Trump administration has found its motto.

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[Cha]

8. And, there it is

[Angry Dragon]

9. mottos are good

[Mr. Ected]

4. BENGHAZI! eom

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. +1000000!

[Uponthegears]

6. This is a f'ing war crime

[enough]

7. The Americans (that's us) also killed her 16 year old American brother in 2011.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

[Uponthegears]

14. Always like hearing from

Putin puppet Greenwald.

Well, heck, I guess Trump is in the clear.

[enough]

16. So you're saying this event didn't happen? This has nothing to do with clearing Trump,

which of course you know.

[Uponthegears]

25. What I know is that

There is a world of difference between collateral death during a drone strike and a Navy Seal shooting a little girl in the neck on the direct instructions of a man who promised to kill terrorists' children.

What I also know is that Greenwald is a Putin puppet who brought this up for the express purpose of supporting Trump.

[joshcryer]

24. Drones are popular among Americans, sadly.

For, actually, the reasons this thread illustrates. We could've droned that building and then 1) no seal team members would be dead and 2) the death of an 8 year old would've been shrugged off as a secondary casualty rather than the focus.

[braddy]

10. Everything related to a raid of this significance and risk and complexity, all happened

within a few days? I find that hard to believe.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Yeah, I read elsewhere that this is a holdover mission...

in the works for weeks, if not months. Obama was iffy on it, apparently and left the plans in place.

Hard to tell what might have changed in the plans due to the New "Pres" but if the op was botched somehow, who knows. Likely Trump and Bannon thought they had some easy favorable pub from this. Probably watched too many episodes of NCIS or something.

This is why the Osama bin Laden Op was such a big deal. When you put a team in there, shit can go south fast. Generally the SEAL team will be outnumbered, but make up for it with training, tactics, and equipment. But when the bullets start flying a lot of unpredictability enters the equation.

[politicaljunkie41910]

30. As the article implied, earlier reports did state that this was a holdover mission from the Obama

administration which turns out not to be true. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that those reports were leaked by the Trump administration after the mission went very, very wrong. I think the new Trump admin was trying to do everything in that first week to make themselves look good and just wanted to score a quick knockout punch. And as the article stated, "everything went wrong". You know Trump, who knows more than the Generals is always boasting about his military prowess. I recall reading about how the Seal Team who went after Bin Laden practiced and I even seem to recall that they had an actual mock up of the building and grounds where they believed Bin Laden to be which they used as practice for that eventual raid.

My guess is that Trump wanted a UUUUGGGE victory to close out his first week and pushed forward on a plan that wasn't ready to be executed and as the saying goes, "everything that could go wrong, did". Thank goodness we didn't have more casualties in order to boost Fuhrer Trump's insatiable ego.

[Barack_America]

21. A well-planned raid takes more time.

I've thus far seen no evidence that this was well-planned.

In fact, I've seen much evidence to the contrary.

[braddy]

28. SEAL team 6 has had problems.

[meadowlark5]

11. Is Trey Gowdy going to hold hearings?

A SEAL was killed! An American child was killed! A military helicopter destroyed!

Sounds like a bungled mission but will there be hearings for a the next 4yrs about it? Will we hear deplorables outrage on social media? Lock him up?? Me thinks not.

[Tatiana]

15. "Almost everything went wrong," said anyone ever affiliated with Trump.

So are we going to open hearings? Begin investigations?

RIP to the SEAL and to the young girl caught up in this horrendous cycle of violence.

[Tanuki]

17. You just know Trump posed his inner circle in the Situation Room

looking all serious and intense, in imitation of the famous photo of Obama, HRC, et al during the Bin Ladin raid. We would have seen it by now if this raid had not been a fiasco.

[VOX]

19. Trey Gowdy must immediately form a select committee to investigate these needless deaths...

of innocent Americans!!

A Select Committee on the Incident in Southern Yemen will be authorized and directed to conduct a full and complete investigation and study and issue a final report of its findings to the House!

[LuvLoogie]

22. They sent in a seal team for computers?

Did they get them? Wouldn't that be something if they found evidence that confirmed trump's assertions? I bet they found Obama's forged birth certificate.

[orleans]

23. THIS

title:
"Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister."

"As noted by my colleague Jeremy Scahill – who extensively interviewed the grandparents in Yemen for his book and film on Obama’s “Dirty Wars” – the girl was “was shot in the neck and killed,” bleeding to death over the course of two hours. “Why kill children?,” the grandfather asked. “This is the new (U.S.) administration – it’s very sad, a big crime.” "

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

[bravenak]

26. Trump is guilty

Worse than benghazi.