Special Ops History: The Capture of Manuel Noriega

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Posted October 15, 2015 10:05 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life


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Within four days of the arrival of U.S. Troops, Panamanian forces had been neutralized and the unpopular Noriega had been driven into hiding.

Here is the former Panama dictator, Manuel Noriega.

The U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989 involved more than 27,000 U.S. troops and 300 aircraft, but strategic operations by several SEALs platoons were critical to one of the war’s principal objectives: the capture of dictator Manuel Noriega.

The decision by the U.S. to attack Panama was reached only gradually over the course of several years. Originally a U.S. ally, Noriega had even become a paid informant for the CIA in 1967, offering intelligence on Central American insurgencies and the illegal drug trade in the region. …Read the Rest

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