Operation Celestial Balance: The Baraawe Raid of 2009

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Posted February 17, 2016 10:00 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life


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Details are sketchy, but several sources suggest that Operation Celestial Balance involved a team of Navy SEALs, perhaps like these here (shown after a fast-roping exercise).

Perhaps the SEALs were transported to Baraawe in a helicopter similar to an MH-6 Little Bird like the one Rangers are exiting here.

American intelligence had been watching Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan for years, looking for an opportunity to take him out. Widely believed to be the mastermind of the 2002 suicide bombing of the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, that left 12 Kenyans and three Israelis dead and dozens more wounded, Nabhan was also strongly implicated in the 1998 bombings of …Read the Rest

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