23-year Navy SEAL veteran and Montana GOP Representative Ryan Zinke addressed rumors pointing to a special operations rescue mission for Hamas’ hostages, claiming it would be a “considerable effort” given the circumstances.
“When you have the number of hostages that Israel [does] — and many of them are U.S. citizens, as was reported — that is a considerable effort,” Zinke said.
No less than 150 individuals are currently being held captive by Hamas terrorists, including an unknown number of Americans. (Poll: Did Joe Biden’s Failures Lead to Hamas Attack? VOTE)
If SEALs were to assist Israel in executing a rescue mission, the effort would be a “national command authority decision,” according to Zinke.
“You know, it’s no secret SEAL Team six and select Israel Defense Forces forces have had a long relationship sharing tactics, techniques, procedures and an integration of units … to meet the requirements,” he added.
Affirming his support of the nation, Zinke said, “We need to stand behind Israel 100%.”
“What we’re talking about is decapitation of children, of terrorist aggression,” he went on. “We need to stand behind Israel. I think it should be recognized that, look, this is a coordination of regional scale — where you have Hamas links with Iran, links with Chinese manufactured weapons systems, Iranian manufactured weapon systems, and now Hezbollah.”
“This is a regional coordinated conflict, and I don’t think one should take for granted that recently you had maritime operations with Russia, China and Iran in the Persian Gulf on coordination of assets and tactics and techniques.”
“We have a lot of hostage expertise here in the United States, and we’re offering some of that expertise to Israel should they desire it and should they find that appropriate,” he pressed.
“We don’t have any fidelity on the exact number of potential American hostages,” stated Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. He went on to emphasize that he offered Israel the help of “our special operators” along with U.S. intelligence units “in planning and developing intelligence to help in this endeavor.”
“We have people on the ground that have… established contact with his operators, his special operators, and will continue to help with intelligence and planning as things go along,” Austin continued.
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