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Sources: US forces mounted unsuccessful mission to rescue kidnapped American U. in Afghanistan profs | Fox News
2 Professors were taken hostage in Afghanistan, and SpecOps went in to try to rescue them. The mission was unsuccessful in that the hostages were not there / had been moved.
THE REALLY INTERSTING PART OF THE ARTICLE IS THIS:
"The first mission was aborted when the American rescue force could not obtain White House approval for the mission amid concerns about the intelligence, according to three defense officials. They were in the air heading to the target area at the time and had to return to their base in Afghanistan."
SpecOps teams were airborne, heading to the location without being sure if the Intel was good. They did not wait until they had solid Intel to take off - they were on the way while getting Intel updates as they flew.
One of the liberal arguments that has been made regarding Benghazi is that SpecOps teams did not take off because they did not fully have good Intel on what the situation on the ground in Benghazi was. Experts laughed at this argument knowing, as this mission showed, SpecOps teams take off and are briefed / kept informed during the flight!
The difference between a hostage rescue team and a Fast Response team is that with a hostage situation the hostages are in no immediate threat (they had been held for a while) and no one knows they're coming so aborting doesn't result in dead Americans. A Fast Response Team going in to respond to Americans fighting for their lives against a terrorist attack isn't going to turn around if they get the word Intel doesn't have the full picture. That team is designed to go in and deal with whatever they find.
NOT KNOWING HOW LONG THE ATTACK WOULD LAST and knowing it would take several hours to get there the Fast Attack / response team would have taken off (as they wanted to) and counted on getting briefs in the air, as this hostage rescue team did. NO WAY the team just decides 'Americans are fighting for their lives but we don't have a complete clear picture so we're not going'!
To those in the know, this little piece of reporting just add more proof that the Response Team was ordered not to go to Benghazi as several claim.
2 Professors were taken hostage in Afghanistan, and SpecOps went in to try to rescue them. The mission was unsuccessful in that the hostages were not there / had been moved.
THE REALLY INTERSTING PART OF THE ARTICLE IS THIS:
"The first mission was aborted when the American rescue force could not obtain White House approval for the mission amid concerns about the intelligence, according to three defense officials. They were in the air heading to the target area at the time and had to return to their base in Afghanistan."
SpecOps teams were airborne, heading to the location without being sure if the Intel was good. They did not wait until they had solid Intel to take off - they were on the way while getting Intel updates as they flew.
One of the liberal arguments that has been made regarding Benghazi is that SpecOps teams did not take off because they did not fully have good Intel on what the situation on the ground in Benghazi was. Experts laughed at this argument knowing, as this mission showed, SpecOps teams take off and are briefed / kept informed during the flight!
The difference between a hostage rescue team and a Fast Response team is that with a hostage situation the hostages are in no immediate threat (they had been held for a while) and no one knows they're coming so aborting doesn't result in dead Americans. A Fast Response Team going in to respond to Americans fighting for their lives against a terrorist attack isn't going to turn around if they get the word Intel doesn't have the full picture. That team is designed to go in and deal with whatever they find.
NOT KNOWING HOW LONG THE ATTACK WOULD LAST and knowing it would take several hours to get there the Fast Attack / response team would have taken off (as they wanted to) and counted on getting briefs in the air, as this hostage rescue team did. NO WAY the team just decides 'Americans are fighting for their lives but we don't have a complete clear picture so we're not going'!
To those in the know, this little piece of reporting just add more proof that the Response Team was ordered not to go to Benghazi as several claim.
