Syria - boots on the ground directed by Commander in Chief

"We have warned [Syria's President Bashar al-Assad's] regime not to interfere with our ongoing efforts against [IS] inside of Syria," said National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan.

(So, where's Fox News on this story? ....Absent.)

Abu Sayyaf, a high level evil-ISIS leader, is dead. He was killed by US Special forces.
Although this Special Operations assassination in Syria appears to be a success, it is proof of the obvious. Indeed, American troops are "boots on the ground" in Syria and most probably elsewhere, too.


It's curious, but US media has not developed this story. 

Here's the BBC report:

Islamic State crisis: US special forces in Syria raid

The US says its special forces have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) member and captured his wife in a rare ground raid in eastern Syria.

Abu Sayyaf helped direct oil, gas and financial operations for IS, as well as holding a military role, said a US Department of Defense statement.

It said forces tried to capture him, but he was killed after engaging them.

It is the first time the US is known to have carried out a ground operation to attack IS within Syria.

The operation was authorised by President Barack Obama and was carried out by forces based in Iraq.

US officials said Abu Sayyaf was Tunisian, with one official telling CNN he was the chief financial officer "of all of [IS]" and that the US had seized "reams of data on how ISIS operates, communicates and earns its money".

On Arabic social media, however, Abu Sayyaf was not being spoken of as a known public figure.

Oil and gas have been an important source of revenue for IS, which gained swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq last year.

On Saturday, the group took control of the northern part of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, which it has been advancing on for three days, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights - a UK-based network that uses activists within Syria.

In other developments
More civilians were killed in Syrian government air raids in Idlib province, the Observatory reported.

Turkey said it had shot down a Syrian helicopter after it crossed into Turkish airspace, though Syrian state media indicated that the aircraft was a drone.

The US said the operation in Syria was conducted "with the full consent of Iraqi authorities", though it did not inform the Syrian government in advance.

"We have warned [President Bashar al-Assad's] regime not to interfere with our ongoing efforts against [IS] inside of Syria," said National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan, adding that "the Assad regime is not and cannot be a partner in the fight" against (evil) IS.

(Julie's note:  This raid has to have been as dangerous as the "No Easy Day" reported raid to kill the now dead Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan!)

"No Easy Day"- Puts all Americans in Harms Way

All Americans should be outraged by the opportunist US Navy Seal who released his version of what happened during the raid on the Bin Laden compound.  Al Qaeda, the Taliban and any of their sympathizers, anywhere in the world, now have a hard copy  cause to use against Americans in a vengeful act of retaliation.  If any American is harmed as a result of his book, the victims or their survivors should sue the person behind the book for damages.

Although it was only a matter of time when someone would have broken with the SEAL silence tradition to describe what happened the night Bin Laden was murdered in Pakistan, but to "come out" so soon after the event puts more than the author in harms way.  Pseudonym "Mark Owen", who is apparantly a retired US Navy Chief, should recall how any anti Muslim publicity puts the author and their followers in the path of revenge.

Recall the author Salmon Rushtie:
"Salmon Rushtie is planning to write a book about the decade he spent in hiding after Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him." 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/24/rushdie-planning-book-time-in-hiding

A fatwa is a decree issued by a qualified Muslim official and the issuance put Rushtie into hiding for a decade.  In other words, Rushtie's life was in danger.

Another example, remember the Denmark newspaper's anti-Muslim cartoon and subsequent damage.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/Feb/01/Denmark-Norway-try-to-curb-cartoon-damage.ashx#axzz25Jg2Qs5r

"Denmark and Norway on Tuesday tried to curb the damage caused by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper, while Arab interior ministers called on Denmark to "firmly sanction" the authors of the caricatures."

(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

Fox News released the pseudonym person behind the name. 

 His colleagues know and understand the risk.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57499520/ex-navy-seal-compromised-by-identity-reveal/

Current and former SEALs criticized Owen for speaking out. “How do we tell our guys to stay quiet when this guy won’t?” one SEAL told Fox while others reportedly called Owen a “traitor.”

Navy Seal "Owen" (real name Matt Bissonnette) had no business breaking faith with his colleagues, to take advantage of his role in the infamous  and successful raid.  

Of course, now the book is out and the author will reap financial success, regardless of who is harmed as a result of its publication.  Therefore, the money earned by the publication of "No Easy Day" should be shared among all who took part in the raid on the secret Bin Laden compound.  

"No Easy Day" has created dangerous days ahead for Americans traveling around the world.  

Author "Owen" broke a sacred SEAL tradition, one supported by his colleagues.  If he felt his version of the raid was necessary because he didn't want the President of the United States to reap credit for the raid, then the former Navy Chief forgot the oath he took every time he accepted a re-enlistment bonus to support the Constitution and the President of the United States.

Of course, freedom of the press is essential to our rights as American citizens, but individual responsibility should pre-empt one person's opportunist ability to use this right to his own advantage.

"No Easy Day" will do more harm than good.  In fact, I don't believe the book will do any good at all except to make the author wealthy.

Being he happens to live in isolated Alaska, the chances of him or his family being put in harms way as a result of the book's publication are as remote as his location.  Other Americans, however, are at risk by one man's obsession with his own opinion about the Bin Laden raid.