Last week’s failed raid on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters in Yemen not only failed to secure the release of a held US hostage, but officials have now confirmed that the hostage, journalist Luke Somers, has been executed by AQAP in the wake of the failure.
AQAP had been hoping to secure a ransom for Somers, and after the raid said they were giving them a deadline for the week’s end on Somers, and have executed both him and a South African hostage.
Officials are offering more details on the failed rescue attempt, revealing that previous reports of a more or less successful operation in which Somers simply wasn’t there, wasn’t strictly true.
Rather, they now say that the AQAP fighters “heard” the US troops coming from about 100 yards away and started firing on them. This apparently gave them time to relocate Somers before the US troops got to him. Officials are blaming it on a “barking dog.”
Wonder what these "AID WORKERS AND JOURNALISTS AND ALL MANNER OF IDIOTS" are thinking when they go to these places. Any westerner thinking that being a non combatant will somehow grant them immunity from being kidnapped, tortured, killed etc. is just plain stupid. That is like the civilians that are murdered by Asylum States drone attacks crying why are they being killed. The answer to all of this is really simple. Neither the Asylum States government, the Asylum Kingdom government, Fagot France, and Nazi Germany under Merkel, as well as AQAP, ISIS, Al Qaeda everywhere else, Evil Israeli Mossad, and any extremist murderers all over the planet, none of them care about civilian non combatants. PERIOD. SENTENCE. PARAPGRAPH. So only the un initiated from any country on earth with a vested interest in war, aggression, death, and destruction does not understand why these murderers in power do what they do, nor do they seem smart enough stay away from each other's lands. That means, Muslims need to leave Amerika, Amerikans need to stay out of Arab Muslim countries, etc. Stay away! Fore should you be caught there, whatever idiot reason you had for going in the first place, will accomplish nothing but getting your head chopped off or your entire body blown to bits by a drone from 30,000 feet.
"Muslims need to leave America" – I assume you are conveniently ignoring those Muslims who are US citizens, born and bred, as well as those American who, for very good personal reasons, have converted to Islam? You're also ignoring those Muslims who came to our country to make a new life out of the ashes of their old nation (which we probably had a hand in creating) and have since applied for or achieved full citizenship?
I suspect that every future failed mission will attribute its downfall to the 'barking dog' defense.
Hmmm, that just might work. Let's see how that would look:
After 13 years of war in Afghanistan, hundreds of billions spent on training troops, providing weapons, and rebuilding the Afghan opium industry, US troops have still not entirely pacified or subjugated the Asian nation. US officials, who asked to remain anonymous, said US efforts have been hampered by a Pashtun tradition of keeping large, ferocious barking dogs. A spokesman for the Dept. of Defense said "It's not really the Mastiffs and Great Danes that cause a problem, we just shoot them. But when those darn Pekinese, Chihuahuas, and Pugs start yapping and dancing around, it's really hard to get a gunsight on them." A State Department official said efforts were being made to provide US troops with training from US Law Enforcement agencies. "US police have a great deal of experience and expertise in shooting family pets," he said.
OK, the average GMO eating, fluoride drinking, TV watching US citizen might just buy that.
Lol
What purpose did the US government have to cause this?
"Pierre Korkie was very sick – he had a hernia," Gift of the Givers' Yemen project director Anas Hamati told the BBC's Newshour.
Mediators had been working on an "arrangement to take him out", he said, adding: "His passport was ready, everything was ready.
"In that time the attack happened by US special forces in Yemen and that has destroyed everything."
Mr Korkie was abducted with his wife Yolande in May last year in Yemen's second city, Taiz.
She was freed on 10 January without ransom and returned to South Africa.
"The psychological and emotional devastation to Yolande and her family will be compounded by the knowledge that Pierre was to be released by al-Qaeda tomorrow," the charity said in a statement."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-3035866…
The U.S. government has to continually show to the rest of the world how "tough" it is. The safety of any hostages are secondary. Also, the lie that the government doesn't negotiate with "terrorists", has already been shown.
Could it be that so called friendly fire the cause of their death?
Why all the force? — Why only force?
No force is best, force as a last resort a step in the right direction, but deadly force always and in your face, an obey or die mentality, what a hopeless hostility for all the world to see.
Most so called reporters are actual spies for the USA military. One that was beheaded while back-American working for A French newspaper—Sure!
US can succesfully wage wars against defencless people only /just like Israels régime/. Its only about "colonial imperialism".The game newer changed – just to steel Its soldiars are mostly uneducated without any knowledge about world events even geograpfy. US and its endless support for Israels crimes against humanity, for régime changes anywhere and against anybody who does not aggree with their policy is sure way to dissaster.
Lets hope there will be régime change in US, disarment of Israels illegal arsenal of WMD and end of brutal ongoing Palestine occupation – only then can World avoid WW3…..Pedro
If the commandos used the V-22 Osprey, they couldn't expect surprise.