NBC: What Went Wrong? Inside the Yemen SEAL Raid
It might have been a barking dog, or a crashed drone, or overheard chatter on walkie talkies. But multiple military and intelligence sources told NBC News that something tipped off the terrorist targets of an early morning raid by the U.S. and its allies in Yemen on Sunday, and all hell broke loose.
A well-rehearsed mission that was supposed to extract computers and other intelligence from an al Qaeda camp near a mountain village turned into a massive firefight involving Harrier jets, helicopter gunships and gun-wielding jihadi women that killed one Navy SEAL, 14 al Qaeda fighters and, allegedly, non-combatant women and children.
According to a senior military official, one of the dead was an 8-year-old American girl, the daughter of U.S.-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who himself was killed in a U.S. strike in Yemen in 2011.
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WNU Editor: NBC is speculating via through its sources that Al Qaeda was tipped-off ... resulting in the firefight that resulted in this heavy loss of life. And while details on this operation are still secret, one is thing is clear .... U.S. Special Forces certainly walked into a fight where the enemy was rady for them.
