One Navy SEAL died , and a second is MIA after a CENTCOM-approved operation to board a vessel allegedly seized by Iranian militants off the coast of Somalia/Yemen went catastrophically wrong, a CENTCOM source and White Hat speaking under condition of anonymity told Real Raw News.
The source’s limited telling partly contradicts what little information the illegal administration has shared with the mainstream news: two U.S. Navy SEALs were reported missing after falling into the sea while climbing aboard a vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
Here are the facts we know:
At approximately 3:00 a.m. local time, a SEAL Team conducted a Maritime Interdiction Operation on a flagged vessel that put out a distress call claiming that Iranian militants had boarded and were commandeering the ship.
The Seal Team shadowed the vessel and, when close enough, “grabbed it,” meaning they used ladders fitted with grappling hooks fired from a compressed air launcher to snag the boat. Three SEALs in Viking suits were scaling the ladder when the mission went south.
As the first SEAL neared the primary deck, a hostile leaned over the edge and opened fire with an automatic weapon, the rounds zipping past the encroaching SEALs. The SEAL nearest the top lost his grip and fell, striking the SEAL below him as he dropped toward the water. The force caused the second and third SEALs to lose their grip.
One, and our source wouldn’t say which, struck the climb boat and broke his neck, which killed him. A second seal was injured and later recovered. The third fell into the sea and is listed as missing in action.
According to the injured SEAL, he heard three distinctive types of gunfire come from above while ascending the ladder, and he claims the reports came from U.S. military weapons, including an M-14 carbine and a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun. Although these weapons are widely available in the illegal arms trade industry and used by global terrorists, they’re usually not in the hands of fluent English speakers spraying fire at U.S. military personnel.
“The wounded Team member recalls hearing the hostiles cussing at him in English as he tried boarding the ship,” a source told Real Raw News. “It’s our belief this was a setup, that no Iranians were on the ship. This could’ve been regime retaliation against SEALs they knew were involved in previous White Hat operations.”
In any event, the SEALs aborted the mission.
Our source on this issue was reluctant to speak further on the incident, but he said he would supply more details in the future.