You have to give those Delta Force units lots of credit.
With swoop on Islamic State compound, U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing
Source: Reuters - Sat, 16 May 2015 20:59 GMT
Author: Reuters
By Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - After weeks of planning and surveillance focused on a compound near the oilfields of eastern Syria, elite American commandos were finally given the green light to swoop in on their target - an Islamic State commander considered to have acted as the group's "chief financial officer."
Mounting a rare raid in a war-ravaged country where U.S. President Barack Obama has long been reluctant to commit "boots on the ground," the Delta Force unit flew in from Iraq under cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday on Black Hawk helicopters and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
Their objective, according to U.S. officials: to capture alive a Tunisian-born militant leader, Abu Sayyaf, believed responsible for overseeing the group's black-market sales of oil and gas and other financial operations to help fund a brutal Jihadist campaign that has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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With swoop on Islamic State compound U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing?
With swoop on Islamic State compound, U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing
Source: Reuters - Sat, 16 May 2015 20:59 GMT
Author: Reuters
By Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - After weeks of planning and surveillance focused on a compound near the oilfields of eastern Syria, elite American commandos were finally given the green light to swoop in on their target - an Islamic State commander considered to have acted as the group's "chief financial officer."
Mounting a rare raid in a war-ravaged country where U.S. President Barack Obama has long been reluctant to commit "boots on the ground," the Delta Force unit flew in from Iraq under cover of darkness in the early hours of Saturday on Black Hawk helicopters and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
Their objective, according to U.S. officials: to capture alive a Tunisian-born militant leader, Abu Sayyaf, believed responsible for overseeing the group's black-market sales of oil and gas and other financial operations to help fund a brutal Jihadist campaign that has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
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With swoop on Islamic State compound U.S. commandos seek to disrupt financing?