BHO's rescue mission to save beheaded journalist failed

[Thomasj_tx]

JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent
3:31 p.m.
Aug. 20, 2014




WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sent U.S. troops to Syria earlier this summer to rescue a number of Americans held by a violent extremist group, including slain journalist James Foley, but did not find the hostages, senior Obama administration officials said Wednesday.

The officials said the rescue mission was authorized after intelligence agencies believed they had identified the location inside Syria where the hostages were being held. But the several dozen special operations troops who were dropped by aircraft into Syria did not find them engaged in a firefight with Islamic State militants before departing.

The officials said a number of militants but no Americans were killed. One American sustained a minor injury when an aircraft was hit, according to the officials, who described the mission under ground rules that they not be identified. They did so one day after the militants released a video showing the beheading of Foley and threatening to kill a second hostage, Steven Sotloff, if U.S. airstrikes against the militants in Iraq continued.

The officials would not say specifically when or where the operation took place, citing the need to protect operational details in order to preserve the ability to carry out future rescue missions.

[Byteryder]

bad intelligence

[Thomasj_tx]

bad intelligence

Well, 10 years ago "bad intelligence" was called "lying".  How times have changed.

[Byteryder]

Just amazing. We can record, categorize, quantify, collate, archive, leak, and other wise peruse every fart passed by every American on the country, but we can find the location just a few Americans in the Middle East.


Are the Jihadists that good, we that bad, or just a matter of political priorities

[Thomasj_tx]

What I find interesting is the timing of this information release.  If the James Foley video did not come out yesterday, we still would not know about this failed attempt.  Why did they even release this information?  There can only be one answer, political motive.  There is no other reason at all.

[dont-blameme]

Why didn't he use twitter, to send a message to free the reporter?

[JigSaw-II]

(( Are the Jihadists that good, we that bad, or just a matter of political priorities))

Probably all of the above.  Failures as well as successes are a way of life.  You savoir the successes and learn from the failures...