{"id":30226,"date":"2012-06-03T08:15:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T12:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30226"},"modified":"2012-06-03T08:15:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T12:15:37","slug":"on-that-raid-yesterday-to-free-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30226","title":{"rendered":"On that raid yesterday to free aid workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30222\">I mentioned briefly that British Spec Ops<\/a> troops rescued the two aid workers and their interpreters in Afghanistan based on the AP&#8217;s reporting. Now Fox News is reporting on their news broadcast that it was actually SEAL Team 6 again with an equal number of SAS commandos. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/afghanistan\/9307833\/How-the-British-hostages-were-rescued-in-Afghanistan.html\">UK&#8217;s Telegraph<\/a> says;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the evening of Tuesday 28th May, a force of 28 members of the SAS and <strong>an equal number of US Navy SEALS<\/strong> had established a forward operating base within the headquarters of a Provincial Reconstruction Team close to the town of Faizbad, around 30 minutes flying time from the hostages\u2019 location. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis is mine. And the Telegraph describes the operation;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as the sun was beginning to set the British troops approached the cave where they believed Miss Johnston and Miss Oirere were being held. The SAS held their ground until their US colleagues reached their assault positions. It was vital for both attacks to be executed concurrently. Weapons and radios were given a final check and night vision goggles activated. Minutes later the special forces teams rescuers were given the order to assault.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers moved into the darkness shooting dead the kidnappers with silenced weapons. Several were dispatched with a \u201cdouble tap\u201d the preferred method of killing &#8211; two bullets in the centre of the forehead.<\/p>\n<p>The US special forces cleared and secured their target, killing seven kidnappers in the process but no hostages had been found. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that British Spec Ops troops rescued the two aid workers and their &hellip; <a title=\"On that raid yesterday to free aid workers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30226\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On that raid yesterday to free aid workers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}