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But other U.S. officials say the Defense Department has dispatched several dozen commandos in recent weeks, in addition to a small team that was in Israel on Oct. 7 conducting previously scheduled training.
People forget that the US commandos are in Israel all the time. That's where they receive their urban warfare training.
Democracy and freedom for all!
Except for those we don't like.
To make it easier to mess them up we'll put nasty labels on them: "insurgents", "radicals", "communists" and the ever-popular "terrorists".
Hold on. You can't have it both ways. When Hamas goes out and slaughters children we don't get to call them "freedom fighters". IDF is not free of culpability either but come on.
The fuck did people think our carrier groups were there for? Hopefully all western nations with hostages are in tunnels saving peeps.
Oh, good. Now America will have a reason to join when these people get killed.
Hamas already has American hostages...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
American commandos on the ground in Israel are helping locate the more than 200 hostages seized during Hamas’s surprise cross-border attacks on Oct. 7, the Pentagon’s top special operations policy official said on Tuesday.
“We’re actively helping the Israelis to do a number of things,” Christopher P. Maier, an assistant secretary of defense, told a special operations conference in Washington.
But other U.S. officials say the Defense Department has dispatched several dozen commandos in recent weeks, in addition to a small team that was in Israel on Oct. 7 conducting previously scheduled training.
The U.S. Special Operations forces are not assigned any combatant roles in Israel, but they are talking through with their Israeli counterparts “what is going to be a very complex fight going forward” in Gaza, Mr. Maier said.
In his discussions with his Israeli counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin II has stressed the need for careful consideration of how Israeli forces conduct a ground invasion of Gaza, where Hamas maintains an intricate network of tunnels under densely populated areas.
Several Western countries have secretly moved small teams of their own special forces closer to Israel to help with any potential rescue operation and to be nearby to assist in any large-scale evacuations of their citizens from Israel or Lebanon.
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Yeah I'll make it easy for the Commandos: those are the ones getting bombed. You're welcome.