Wow, this NYT article so soon after the Seymour Hersh article that explains how the Obama Admin lied about how they killed Osama bin Laden? I am sceptical of the too conveniently timed news story. The first 2 paragraphs read like a Hollywood film plot. Delta force is even rescuing slaves! Who could possibly disagree with the idea that Obama has invaded yet another country??! — this time Syria. What could possibly go wrong?
‘WASHINGTON — American Special Operations forces mounted a rare raid into eastern Syria early Saturday, killing a leader of the Islamic State and about a dozen militant fighters, as well as capturing his wife and freeing an 18-year-old Yazidi woman whom Pentagon officials said had been held as a slave.
In the first successful raid by American ground troops since the military campaign against the Islamic State began last year, two dozen Delta Force commandos entered Syria aboard Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Ospreys and killed the leader, a man known as Abu Sayyaf. One American military official described him as the Islamic State’s “emir of oil and gas.”…’
via ISIS Official Killed in U.S. Raid in Syria, Pentagon Says – NYTimes.com.
