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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
The news in the US (at least what I keep track of on TV and Internet) say that the SEALs had orders to capture the bad guys, but they fought back and the SEALs had to kill all of them. So they didn't have any prisoners to take.
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The online AP and Reuters reports that I've read, which are by far more reliable and less biased than the crap fed to us on TV, mentioned 9 kidnappers killed and several more (number undisclosed) captured. I'm sure that the SEALs are competent enough that if their orders said to capture some, that they would do precisely that and shoot to wound rather than kill, regardless of how much the baddies were "resisting". These guys are consummate professionals and can put rounds wherever they want them to go. They aren't like local cops who "accidentally" kill people.