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2017-02-01 Arabia
US: Female Al-Qaeda combatants killed in Yemen raid
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Posted by Pappy 2017-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top
 File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia 

#1 According to the Pentagon, it was aimed at gathering information, using a lightning raid by special forces to seize the maximum amount of documents, computers or other electronic devices before pulling back.

Somewhere btwn 14 and 30 EKIA (Enemy Killed in Action. No EWIA (Enemy wounded in action), not even slightly, all deceased.

Yea, ok.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-01 02:31||   2017-02-01 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 No EWIA

Intel-gathered?
Posted by Pappy 2017-02-01 09:00||   2017-02-01 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Somewhere btwn 14 and 30 EKIA (Enemy Killed in Action. No EWIA (Enemy wounded in action), not even slightly, all deceased.

Yea, ok.


It's all the sucking chest wounds. And sepsis. A lot of prayers were answered, apparently...
Posted by Steve White 2017-02-01 09:29||   2017-02-01 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 This is how it is supposed to go. The enemy needs to know that there will be no more prisoners. Good first hit for this administration. Job well done and HT to JSOC.
Posted by 49 pan 2017-02-01 09:40||   2017-02-01 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 No word on the number of FBBE (Fluffy Bunnies Brutally Exterminated) or BDM (Baby Ducks Macerated)?
Posted by SteveS 2017-02-01 09:57||   2017-02-01 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 SSE evidence and detainees equal intel which equal additional kill/capture missions. This is the SOF target generator. I suspect the target generation machine is now engaged thanks to Mr. Mattis and President Trump.
Posted by Tennessee 2017-02-01 10:32||   2017-02-01 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Is that how y'all communicate all the time? No wonder you get so much done. ;-) (Thank you for the translations. Only SSE still needed.)
Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE)
Posted by trailing wife 2017-02-01 10:53||   2017-02-01 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Wanna bet not all were KIA, and are enjoying their new home somewhere hard to find? Humint matters again!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-02-01 11:17||   2017-02-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Even with a couple wounded and one killed for us, the casualty ratio is well worth it with that level of EKIA.

Good job taking out a nest of scorpions.
Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-01 11:19||   2017-02-01 11:19|| Front Page Top

#10 No EWIA
Intel-gathered?
Posted by Pappy

I am wrong about something, nearly on a daily basis these days, but it is quite difficult for me to believe these brave lions of islam all fought to the last man.

I would rather think that at least a few were taken captive and flown back to the magic kingdom (or elsewhere) for extensive consultations. Once again, there can be much truth and discovery in the unspoken, or events overtaken by....other events.

Note also the vagaries in EKIA reporting.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-01 11:41||   2017-02-01 11:41|| Front Page Top

#11 I would rather think that at least a few were taken captive and flown back

And that's why the Ospreys as mentioned earlier.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-01 15:58||   2017-02-01 15:58|| Front Page Top

#12 I would rather think that at least a few were taken captive and flown back to the magic kingdom (or elsewhere) for extensive consultations.

Hence my terse "intel-gathered" remark.
Posted by Pappy 2017-02-01 19:02||   2017-02-01 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Someone apparently got the lecture on bullet gender.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-01 21:26||   2017-02-01 21:26|| Front Page Top

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