FOX News: Obama's Team Had the Chance to Kill ISIS leader Al Baghdadi -- And They Blew It
Editor's note: The following column is excerpted from the new book “Drone Warrior” by Brett Velicovich and Christopher S. Stewart.
The U.S. military had the leader of ISIS in its crosshairs years before he became the most wanted terrorist in the world — but the bureaucratic suits in Washington let him get away.
In 2011, a secretive U.S. special operations task force was orbiting a drone above a house in Baghdad, Iraq where they had new intelligence that the notorious terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had bunkered down for a meeting with his top ISIS lieutenants. A call went out from our headquarters and then back to higher-ups in the States: we’ve got him, can we take him out?
Our secretive targeting units had been hunting al-Baghdadi for years before he was known to the public, pushing him deeper and deeper in the shadows. Our weapon was mainly Predator MQ-1 drones equipped with two laser-guided AGM-114P Hellfire missiles, and a separate team of special operators able to finish off targets we had acquired from the ground.
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WNU Editor: Brett Velicovich is pushing his book "Drone Warrior". For more reviews and discussions on this book, check out the links below.
Drone soldier missed killing notorious ISIS chief by mere minutes -- NYPost
Drone expert: For al-Baghdadi to still be alive takes a ‘brilliant mind’ -- The Hill
"Drone Warrior" Brett Velicovich on the "incredible responsibility" of hunting terrorists -- CBS
Brett Velicovich describes hunting the ISIS leader with drones (Video) -- CBS
Let’s Start By Talking About a Typical Day Working with Ballistic-Armed Drones -- Mother Jones
What Drone Warfare Does to a Soldier's Brain -- GQ
8 comments:
Clinton would not pull the trigger on Osama.
Obama would not pull the trigger on Baghdadi.
Common denominator? D
Obama couldn't do it cause it was FAMILY!!
No wonder you hide behind anon
Fred is either demented or he is not in his 80s.
1.) Obama did not benefit from intel work during the Bush administration to find Osama?
2.) Was not Osama hidden and protected by a hostile power, Pakistan?
It could be that someone is using Fred Lapides name because he knows that the 80 some year old is not online and would n3ever know. So maybe it is 'Fred Lapides' who is hiding.
I figured bush was foolish for working with the serial sexual assaulter Ted Kennedy
You know the perv that would make senatorial sandwiches with Senator Doss (D)
So Bush works with Kennedy on an education Bill and the DemoKKKrats still hate him.
I did know one thing as a soldier. Bush would not leave us hanging.
Now Harry Reid just depressed the Hell out of me.
Aizino..you promised me you'd take your pills before going online to comment ...now go back offline, take your pills, and when you're normal in your mind again come back
Anon,
You are doing something similar to this.
A loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
Why don't you quit trolling and get a real job.
TWN has a valid point.
Many German soldiers knew they were beat in 1943.
German generals kept fighting to get some sort of negotiated surrender and not unconditional surrender.
I do not know when, but after the summer of 43 it was, but the Germans came up with the term "Zero Hour". Many of them were beat, but some of their neighbors and certainly not the Gestapo, who were hanging deserters and people hanging white flags were not.
Taking ground, killing x many people is neither necessary nor sufficient.
War is about breaking the enemy will.
You can over awe you enemy, kill, one of them or kill all of them, but what is most important is breaking their will and not letting them regenerate it in such a manner that they become hostile to you.
The Roman Barritus was meant to intimidate and break the enemy before contact, before one person had died.
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