Love nest is located on the southern bank of the pond.

Love's Lookout is accessed from this area. A Quick Change location, Ammo Dump, and Zed's Meds vending machines are also located near the chapel. Two chests are located in the chapel which become lootable after completion of A Match Made on Pandora. This is a frequently visited area for the mission A Match Made on Pandora and is the starting point for Learning to Love. 'We are grateful to our extraordinary service members as well as our intelligence community and other interagency partners for their support to this successful counterterrorism operation.This is the first area encountered in Rotgut Distillery and includes a rundown chapel where Moxxi and Innuendobot 5000 can be found. 'This action leaves the United States and its partners safer and more secure, and it reflects our steadfast commitment to protecting Americans from the threat of terrorism at home and abroad,' Austin said of the latest raid. US Africa Command said 32 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in two separate engagements on January 20 and 23. Meanwhile, the raid in Somalia also took place during a week in which US forces have carried out several strikes against al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terror group with links to Al Qaeda that Bilal-al-Sudani previously supported. US Central Command said in late November that a raid carried out by local Syrian forces weeks prior lead to the death of Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who was then the leader of the terror group. Wednesday's raid in Somalia comes as the US and partner forces continue to track down ISIS fighters in Syria. That a similar approach was used for Bilal-al-Sudani speaks to his importance as a target. For example, the CIA was unable to replicate the thickness of the walls surrounding the compound, nor could it assess what the inside of the living quarters looked like, gaps that would prove problematic during the actual raid. Still, McRaven said, there were a few unfortunate shortcomings due to a lack of time and intelligence. McRaven wrote that the CIA 'had done a masterful job of constructing the mock-up.' A chain-link fence simulated the walls of the compound, while a 'Lego formation' of shipping containers simulated the living spaces. US forces used the mock-up to practice what their ground movements and helicopter approaches would look like during the actual raid.

This preparation and training strategy is similar to one used by Navy SEAL forces ahead of the dramatic 2011 Neptune Spear raid that killed Osama bin Laden.Īdmiral William McRaven, who planned and executed that raid in Pakistan, wrote in his 2019 book 'Sea Stories' that the CIA built a mock-up of the compound in Abbottabad, where bin Laden lived. To carry out the operation, the official said special forces rehearsed the operation at sites that were specifically built to recreate, or simulate, the terrain - a remote, mountainous cave complex - where the operation would eventually take place. No civilians or US troops were injured during the operation, they said.

The Pentagon revealed on Thursday that US forces conducted an assault in northern Somalia the day before and killed Bilal-al-Sudani, an ISIS leader in the country who has played a key role funding operations around the world - including in Afghanistan where 13 US service members were killed in a 2021 ISIS bombing - and growing the group's presence in Africa.ĭefense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the raid 'resulted in the death of a number of ISIS members.' A senior Biden administration official told reporters that 10 other fighters were killed by US forces. US forces extensively rehearsed a secret raid to take out a senior Islamic State financial operative this week, using a specially-built recreation of the rugged target area, US officials said. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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