Thursday, May 5, 2016

Video Shows Intense Fire-Fight In Iraq Where U.S. Navy SEAL Was Killed



The Guardian: Video shows Navy Seal's death was result of intense combat with Isis

Exclusive footage obtained by the Guardian shows firefight between US special forces, Kurdish commandoes and Isis fighters, in which Charles Keating IV died.

Video footage obtained by the Guardian shows the grueling firefight between US special forces, Kurdish commandoes and Islamic State fighters this week, in which a US Navy Seal was killed.

The footage – filmed on a cellphone during the battle, which lasted more than half a day – reveals the extent to which the US military is once again engaged in intense combat in Iraq.

Provided to the Guardian by the lieutenant of an elite Kurdish peshmerga unit, the video shows a convoy of four by four vehicles coming under fire near Tel Osqof, a Christian town about 30km north of Mosul.

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WNU Editor: The above video is intense. This is also true .... 'No boots on the ground' has its limits as U.S. Navy SEAL is killed in Iraq (Isabel Coles, Reuters).

Update: This is 3 too many .... The American Casualties in the Fight Against ISIS: Three U.S. service personnel have been killed in Iraq since October 2015. (Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic).

Update #2: Something that I saw in the above video .... at the 14 second mark two U.S. Special Forces personnel have a U.S. flag carefully wrapped up on their backs.

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