Update, 12/10/12, "Obama Uses Navy SEALs as Rescue Team for US Left-Wing Activists in Muslim World, But NOT US Jews in Cuba, Bolivia," Debbie Schlussel
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Rescued MD's family offered condolences to family of "American sailor" killed in the rescue.
12/9/12, "U.S. Navy SEAL killed in operation to rescue American doctor in Afghanistan," CNN, Sediqi
"An elite U.S. special forces team rescued an American doctor who had been abducted in Afghanistan, but lost one of their own members in the mission, officials said.
Dr. Dilip Joseph was
freed 11 hours after his captors released two other kidnapped staffers
of his nonprofit agency, Morning Star Development, the organization said
Sunday.
Hours later, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that "a U.S. service member was killed in the operation."
Hours later, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that "a U.S. service member was killed in the operation."
A U.S. official said the
man who was shot dead belonged to the Navy's Special Warfare Development
Group, more commonly known as SEAL Team Six. The elite unit is the same
one that took part in the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden, but the official didn't know if the fallen service member was
involved in that operation.
While he did not delve
into detail, Panetta said, "the special operators who conducted this
raid knew they were putting their lives on the line to free a fellow
American from the enemy's grip."
The NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force said Joseph was believed to be
in imminent danger of injury or death when the rescue mission was
launched.
"He gave his life for his
fellow Americans, and he and his teammates remind us once more of the
selfless service that allows our nation to stay strong, safe and free,"
President Barack Obama said of the slain U.S. service member, who was
not immediately identified.
There were conflicting
reports about who was behind the kidnappings. ISAF said it was Taliban
insurgents, while two local Afghan officials told CNN it was smugglers.
The kidnapping of Joseph
and the two other Morning Star staff members occurred around 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday (6 a.m. ET), as the three men were returning from a rural
medical clinic in eastern Kabul province.
"They were stopped and captured while driving, by a group of armed men," according to the agency, which sponsors community and economic initiatives in Afghanistan.
"They were eventually taken to a mountainous area about 50 miles from the Pakistan border."
Tribal leader Malik
Samad and district chief Muhammad Haqbeen told CNN that Joseph and an
Afghan doctor were abducted near the village of Jegdalek in the Sarobi
district, just outside Kabul.
Morning Star said
negotiations began "almost immediately" between the captors, the
hostages and the agency's crisis management team in Kabul and Colorado
Springs, Colorado. In addition to U.S. and Afghan authorities, the
agency thanked "Afghan residents (including) elders and local leaders
who made visits and appeals to the captors advocating for the release of
the hostages."
The "on-again, off-again" negotiations lasted three days into Saturday night, when two of the three were released.
Morning Star did not
release the identities of the two men, citing safety concerns "because
they live and work in the general region." The group said one of them
belonged to its medical staff and the other was part of the
organization's support staff. The two men got out of
the area and eventually were taken to a police station, at which time
Morning Star and their families learned they'd been released.
The Afghan doctor's
family paid $12,000 to the smugglers, who later released him, Haqbeen
and Samad said. For its part, Morning Star stated "categorically that we
paid no ransom, money or other consideration" to anyone in securing any
of its staffers' release.
Sometime Saturday night,
military forces rescued Joseph in a mission ordered by Gen. John Allen,
commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Samad and Haqbeen, the two
Afghan officials, said the operation took place in Laghman province....
His family issued a
statement Sunday acknowledging "harrowing" uncertainty in recent days
and extending its "deepest condolences to the family of the American
sailor who died during Dilip's rescue."...
Despite the kidnappings of Joseph and its two other staffers, Morning
Star reiterated its "commitment to continue its work" in Afghanistan.
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In 2011, 22 Navy Seals were killed in a botched mission in an antiquated US helicopter, unsafe for anyone but the last place you would put 22 elite Navy Seals. The helicopter was easily shot down in Afghanistan:
8/6/11, "22 Navy SEALs killed in Afghan chopper attack," AP
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Former Navy Seals in Benghazi begged Obama for help, they were refused. They fought for over 6 hours, blood-soaked and alone, and Obama was re-elected:
“More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy.
At 4 a.m. local time on Sept. 11 — six hours and 20 minutes after the initial attack began — former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed at the CIA annex not far from the consulate by a mortar shell. The machine gun they were firing was encrusted with blood, an indication they continued to fight after being wounded.
During that eternity, Woods and Doherty might have wondered between gunfire and explosions where the military, with bases strewn across Europe, was. U.S. forces were indeed being moved like chess pieces as the attack unfolded, but none came to their aid because no one gave the order.
President Obama, perhaps preoccupied with his upcoming Las Vegas fundraiser, met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at 5 p.m. ET, a little more than an hour after the onset of the attack.
He could have given the order but did not, even after an email, in which the al-Qaida-tied group Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility, arrived at 6:07 p.m. ET to a distribution list that included the White House Situation Room.
A Special Operations force went from central Europe to Naval Air Station Sigonella in southern Italy, just 480 miles from Benghazi. F-16s and Apache helicopters remained parked and unused at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy. Two Navy destroyers already in the Mediterranean Sea were moved off the coast of Libya on the day of the attack but were never used.
The question is: Why not?
Some suggest that sending nearby AC-130 gunships or Apaches would have been futile because in the chaos they couldn’t have identified the attackers and might have hit innocents. A few well-timed machine gun bursts at nowhere in particular would have been sufficient to disperse the jihadists. We know there was no protest mob in the way and certainly we could have plucked those two heroic SEALs off the annex roof.
But to send help would have acknowledged it was a terrorist attack. It would have destroyed Team Obama’s campaign mantra that Osama bin Laden was dead, al-Qaida was destroyed and the Arab Spring was in full bloom. Better to blame a filmmaker and his obscure video.”
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10/30/12, “Facebook Censors Navy SEALS to Protect Obama on Benghazi-Gate,“ Breitbart, AWR Hawkins
“Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi.
The message was contained in a meme which demonstrated how Obama had relied on the SEALS when he was ready to let them get Osama bin Laden, and how he had turned around and denied them when they called for backup on Sept 11.”…
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“On November 6, 2012, it’s time to STAND OBAMA DOWN.”
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