Washington Post: What the Army’s top-secret commando unit Delta Force is doing back in Iraq
This morning, the Pentagon released the name of the first American serviceman to die in battle in the latest round of U.S. military involvement in Iraq: Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler, age 39, killed during a raid by Kurdish and American commandos on an Islamic State prison near the town of Hawija that reportedly freed seventy hostages who were soon to be executed.
Accompanying Wheeler’s name and age in the Pentagon’s release was a vague description of his unit: “Headquarters U.S. Army Special Operations Command.” That phrase is a euphemism, trotted out for the twelfth time since 2003 to describe a soldier killed in Iraq. The official biographies of the soldiers described in this way follow a pattern: They are old for combat soldiers, usually in their thirties. They are veterans of the Army’s elite special operations units, the Green Berets or, in Wheeler’s case, the 75th Ranger Regiment. And they die in known insurgent hotbeds: Qaim, Ramadi, and yesterday, Hawija.
WNU Editor: Apparently President Obama did not issue the order for this raid. Also .... the Kurdish fighters that this raid were suppose to rescue were not there.
More News And Details On The Joint U.S. - Iraq Raid On An Islamic State Prison
Kurds give account of raid that killed American special operator -- Miami Herald
Inside the ISIS hostage rescue that left a U.S. soldier dead -- CBS
U.S. Commandos Made Last-Minute Decision to Fight in Hostage Raid -- Foreign Policy
Kurds say joint raid with U.S. in Iraq aimed to free their fighters -- Reuters
No Kurds among hostages freed in joint US-Kurdish operation -- Rudaw
US Death in Iraq Belies President Obama's 'Boots on the Ground' Pledge -- Military.com
U.S. Soldier Killed by ISIS, Pentagon Won’t Call It Combat -- Nancy Youseff, Daily Beast
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