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Africa Subsaharan

Seal Team Six Just Rescued an American Hostage

2020-10-31

[Yahoo] An American citizen kidnapped last week in Niger has been rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria, officials told ABC News early Saturday.

The mission was undertaken by elite commandos as part of a major effort to free the U.S. citizen, Philip Walton, 27, before his abductors could get far after taking him captive in Niger on Oct. 26, counterterrorism officials told ABC News.

Or selling him on as an investment, as has happened before. Kidnapping is a high risk/high reward kind of business.

The operation involved the governments of the U.S., Niger and Nigeria working together to rescue Walton quickly, sources said. The CIA provided intelligence leading to Walton's whereabouts and Marine Special Operations elements in Africa helped locate him, a former U.S. official said.

Then the elite SEAL Team Six carried out a "precision" hostage rescue mission and killed all but one of the seven captors, according to officials with direct knowledge about the operation.

"They were all dead before they knew what happened," another counterterrorism source with knowledge told ABC News.

President Donald Trump

...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
called the rescue mission a "big win for our very elite U.S. Special Forces" in a tweet and the Pentagon lauded the rescue mission in a statement.

"U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of gunnies," said Pentagon chief spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman. "This American citizen is safe and is now in the care of the U.S. Department of State. No U.S military personnel were maimed during the operation.

Posted by:Angeater Omick2705

#9 Aloha Snackbar!

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-10-31 17:15

#8 ST6 still has some targets of opportunity in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Philly, etc., etc.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-31 16:20

#7 #3 When you care enough to send the very best...

on a side note -

Four Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in September 1985 by a fundamentalist group called the Islamic Liberation Organization. Russia quickly dispatched its Alpha group, tasked with counter-terrorism hostage-rescue operations, to Beirut. Once the team learned that Arkady Katkov, a consular attaché and one of the four hostages, was killed, they responded quickly by tracking down and locating one of the kidnappers’ leaders (or relative it’s not clear). In order to send a clear message to the terrorists, Alpha group members castrated the hostage, cut him down into pieces and sent him to the hostage takers. They also threatened to kill more of the kidnappers’ relatives if the Soviet diplomats were not free.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-10-31 15:24

#6 And presumably not micromanaged from the White House.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-10-31 14:06

#5 I see I'm not the only one who smiled at the All but One.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-10-31 13:47

#4 Surviving kidnapper most likely captured by the team, may still be having uncontrollable bowel movements after the rescue.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-10-31 13:29

#3 From www.TheDrive.com

The raid included the extremely long-distance movement of forces via multiple C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft flights and the employment of a quartet of both CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotors and MC-130 special operations transports, the latter of which pushed through Rota, Spain, before continuing to their target. AC-130 gunships and a large contingent of aerial refueling tankers also supported this operation.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2020-10-31 13:06

#2 Great news. Now how many more will there be before the election?

Posted by: Clem 2020-10-31 12:43

#1 Left one abductor alive to tell the tale of how his bros were snuffed in less than a minute.

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-10-31 12:40

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