The United States Navy’s Seal Team 6 is one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. They are highly trained and highly skilled in what they do. Recently, they have been tipping out ISIS fighters in Syria.
This is a great thing for the United States and for the world. ISIS is a terrorist organization that has caused a lot of death and destruction. They need to be stopped. The Seal Team 6 is doing their part to make sure that happens.
The members of Seal Team 6 are some of the bravest and most courageous people in the world. They are putting their lives on the line to protect us from ISIS. We owe them a debt of gratitude for their service and for their dedication to keeping us safe.
We are now getting word that the legendary Seal Team laid waste to ISIS yet again …
Fox News reported:
The U.S. military killed a key ISIS facilitator, Bilal al-Sudani, and about 10 ISIS operatives in a counterterrorism mission that resulted in no U.S. casualties, senior administration officials said Thursday.
Officials said that after “extensive planning and exquisite execution of the plan, there were no casualties among American service members or civilians.”
Officials say al-Sudani was involved in funding a network of ISIS affiliates around the world. One official said al-Sudani had specifically been funding and expanding ISIS’s reach throughout Africa and through the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed the assault operation in a statement Thursday afternoon, saying al-Sudani “was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group’s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan.”
“This action leaves the United States and its partners safer and more secure, and it reflects our steadfast commitment to protecting Americans from the threat of terrorism at home and abroad,” Austin said. “We are grateful to our extraordinary service members as well as our intelligence community and other interagency partners for their support to this successful counterterrorism operation.”
U.S. Africa Command on Thursday afternoon also confirmed the mission.
“Protecting civilians remains a vital part of the command’s operations to promote greater security for all Africans,” U.S. Africa Command said.
The operation was the result of what officials called “extraordinary coordination and careful planning across all elements of the U.S. government for many months.”
Planning of the operation reached a “critical stage” last week. The Pentagon briefed President Joe Biden on the plan, along with Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Deputy CIA Director David Cohen, Attorney General Merrick Garland and other senior members of the White House national security team.
Biden authorized the operation earlier this week after “ensuring that key questions that he had about the risk to our forces and the impact of the operation on potential civilians in the area had been answered to his satisfaction.”
Biden’s decision to approve the operation followed a recommendation from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, as well as “careful consideration of its risks and benefits in consultation with his intelligence community and national security team.”
There was an evaluation of whether alternative options existed to address the threats from al-Sudani with even lower risk to U.S. forces.
“An intended capture operation was ultimately determined to be the best option to maximize the intelligence value of the operation and increase its precision in challenging terrain,” one official said. “At the same time, and based on extensive past experience, we recognize that even an intended capture operation might well result in al-Sudani’s death — as it ultimately did.”
The official said there was “one injury.”
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