[ April 18, 2024 ]
Philipe Nathan Walton, 27, was abducted in Niger on October 26 and gunmen demanded a ransom. He was rescued in a high-risk operation by US forces in Niger. Had it gone wrong, it could have hurt President Trump’s re-election campaign — but Trump doesn’t weigh the “political risks’, Trump works for us and Trump always does the right thing. G-d bless him.
The Sun: Niger has faced a growing number of attacks by extremists linked to both the Islamic State group and to al-Qaeda.
The kidnapping comes two months after ISIS-linked militants killed six French aid workers and their Niger guide while they were visiting a wildlife park east of the capital.
Story continues below advertisementWalton’s kidnapping brought the number of foreign hostages believed to be held by extremist groups in Niger to seven.
Woodke had been in Niger for nearly three decades providing humanitarian services and disaster relief, according to a video message released by his wife to the kidnappers two years ago.
A German, Jorg Lang, who was kidnapped in April 2018, is also believed to be held by ISIS.
Four other foreign hostages believed to be held by al-Qaeda-linked militants are from Romania, Australia, Colombia, and South Africa.
Trump tweeted, “Last night, our country’s brave warriors rescued an American hostage in Nigeria. Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen!”
Big win for our very elite U.S. Special Forces today. Details to follow!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2020
SEAL Team 6 Rescues U.S. Citizen Philip Walton in Nigeria
By: The Epoch Times, October 31, 2020:
An American hostage held by a group of armed men in West Africa was rescued early Saturday morning during a rescue operation lead by U.S. forces.
The Pentagon confirmed the operation, saying that the American citizen is safe and now in the care of the State Department. They added that no U.S. military personnel were injured during the operation.
“The United States will continue to protect our people and our interests anywhere in the world,” Jonathan Hoffman, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, said in a statement.
President Donald Trump also lauded the operation, saying on Saturday morning: “Big win for our very elite U.S. Special Forces today. Details to follow!”
Counterintelligence officials told Fox News and ABC News that the elite SEAL Team 6 carried out the mission to rescue 27-year-old Philip Walton, who was kidnapped in Niger earlier this week after six armed men took him across the border into Northern Nigeria.
Walton lives with his wife, young daughter, and brother on a farm near the border with Nigeria.
The State Department also issued a statement on the operation, saying that the United States is committed to working toward the safe return of all U.S. citizens taken captive.
“We delivered on that commitment late last night in Nigeria, where some of our bravest and most skilled warriors rescued a U.S. citizen after a group of armed men took him hostage across the border in Niger,” the statement said.
“Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our military, the support of our intelligence professionals, and our diplomatic efforts, the hostage will be reunited with his family.”
Niger, like much of West Africa’s Sahel region, faces a deepening security crisis as groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIS carry out attacks on the army and civilians, despite help from French and U.S. forces.
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36 Comments
3 years ago
Booyah!
WANT SUCCESS? USE SEAL TEAM 6!
I LOVE MY PRESIDENT TRUMP!
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
isn’t this the same seal team that the muslim president ordered to be killed by iran?
3 years ago
Great news! Will the media cartel report this? Will they wait until after the election and give president Harris/Biden the credit?
3 years ago
let’s add a few adjectives to the story. the american was white and i’m guessing Christian as he was helping the less fortunate, the bad guys were black and muslim, and seal team 6 is all white male and non-muslim. if the democrats want to make everything about race, gender, and religion, we should accomodate them, especially on this site. if the muslim was still president, he would have given the black muslims the coordinates of seal team 6 and had them all killed, just like he did after bin laden was killed.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
I have no doubt Obama and Hillary were behind the death of that Seal Team six, Their death was as an olive branch to Muslims for taking out OBL. Muslims were not happy with the death of OBL.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Oh stop it. Hate Christians some where else.
Christians have the RIGHT to donate to who they support.
It is part of being a CHRISTIAN to put OTHERS before yourself.
As a SLEFISH, SELF CENTERED ATHEIST, you would never understand that. You can’t get beyond yourself and your god, money.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I understand your point, and I am a Christian, but at its core most of what THX said is true.
3 years ago
Reply to
ncskeptic
I would disagree with that and question what your definition of a Christian is. All he is doing is pushing atheism and a perverted justification of it. You took the bait.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
No, I didn’t. But he’s right that before you can give a dollar you have to make one. Prayers alone won’t fill a hungry child’s tummy. Knowingly putting yourself in harm’s way, no matter how noble the mission, often forces others to put themselves in harm’s way to save you. Christians generally believe in preserving life, not putting it at serious risk of loss.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Oh look a blame the victim rant that simultaneously excuses f’ing muslums for their actions.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Will you say the same thing as the situation gets steadily worse WRT islamic immigration to the dying atheist West and the faux altruism of the rotten, corrupt, degenerate atheists who are facilitating said hijra?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
This Christian only risked his own life and I don’t believe the f’ing rotten, corrupt, degenerate atheists who run the dying West are in anyway altruistic — it’s nothing but a front for their dishonest corruption/cowardice.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Not only that, but we would get to see Obama smiling on his golf cart right after the American was beheaded. And Democrats would remain clueless, as always.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
Mother Theresa chose to hold and help people who were often stinky, filthy dirty, starving, and dying often in the last moments of their brutally hard lives. She was being as Jesus would want her to be to them, and deserves to be honored.
I can understand why there is plenty of reason to consider that these rescue operations require a great deal of taxpayer money and some risk to our brave military. If you choose to be in a foreign land one might even fairly say that you should not expect others to rescue you. What you do not know is that there are many Christian groups which are willingly supported by donations doing MUCH BETTER after disaster and other kinds of relief all over America on a near constant basis. I would, for instance, never give to the Red Cross. There are much more effective places to put your money, not discounting the wonderful people who volunteer for the Red Cross. The problem is at the top.
I, for instance, have a heart for financially and through prayer giving to send the true Gospel to the people of Iran and to love the persecuted body of Christ. God put that on my heart. I don’t ask anyone to sow into my chosen charitable giving. How much better off would America and the rest of the world be as many in Iran are asking to know about the love of Jesus for them? There are very brave Christians in China, Iran, Afghanistan, and all over the world carrying out the task of helping people and showing them the mercy and compassion of God. The virgin birth, life, ministry, role of the disciples/Apostles, crucifixion and supernatural resurrection of Jesus are the most historically documented and proven, even by non-Christian sources, in the world. We have much more proof about Jesus than notables such as Julius Caesar. If you don’t want to use the wealth of resources on the internet to discover that for yourself it is your right and your business. God will not violate your free moral agency to choose Him or not.
Christianity in America is all over the map. There is much masquerading as Christian that is downright blasphemous. Any non-believer could point out some things and be shocked at what can be called Christian both on the extreme right and the Socialist Christian Left. I grew up under the ministry of condemnation in which God couldn’t wait for the opportunity to make mincemeat out of you. There is another side of things in which people believe that Jesus is just some happy guy who wants you to just go along to get along with the world. It is a good idea to be discerning what is true and what is counterfeit about the one true God at this time while one can. None of us knows for sure what might be our last day of life. Then time is up.
3 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
If it was your dumb ass I would bet that you would want to be rescued. That is what we do.
3 years ago
President Donald Trump puts the United States and the welfare and safety of the United States first. He also considers United States citizens to be important, even to the point of rescuing a United States citizen who was taken hostage by a Muslim terrorist group in another country. This is the first time I have seen a United States President do this.
3 years ago
Obama spent his effort catering to Muslims. He went out of his way to rescue Bowe Bergdahl. He was an army deserter that joined the other side. Bowe was impressed with Islam, then wanted to come home so Obama rescued him and left others to die or laughed at their beheadings – James Foley. His lazy schedule was interrupted to make the beheading announcement and then minutes later was seen laughing it up playing the “white man’s game” golf. Obama will always be someone to be ashamed of.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl 
What you weren’t allowed to know – 
His liberal parents and five GITMO people we gave up for this POS.
http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/prisoner-trade-sgt-bowe-bergdahl.jpg
You are not allowed to believe that Obama is a Muslim.
He deceived us and that is a pillar of Islam – deception.
Obama as a young Muslim.
3 years ago
3 years ago
3 years ago
The only thing President Trump seems to have been wrong about is…
Americans AREN’T tired of WINNING!
And they’d see MORE of it if the $*#(%ing, @#*$istic, bat sh*# crazy left wingnut media wasn’t in the tank.
3 years ago
That’s how a real AMERICAN President does it! The POS muslim parasite would have been kissing their butts and sending in pallets of taxpayer cash!
3 years ago
It doesn’t say, but I hope the kidnappers are deceased as we can do with a few less such scum in the world. As those who are aware of how the Left, including such allegedly “humane” and “racially sensitive” entities such as the United Nations and the Hollywood elite treat people who actually Try to Help Victims in Africa While White (and worse yet if While Jewish) with scorn and “white savior?” taunts, they must be grinding their teeth over this latest courageous and humane action of rescuing a fellow American by our President Trump.
3 years ago
The Biden approach is to get us entangled in endless foreign wars with no hope of winning. Provides more jobs for leftist bureaucrats that way.
3 years ago
Biden would have let him rot.
3 years ago
Kudos to the seals and my middle finger to the use of the mealy mouthed word salad “extremist groups” to make it seem as if it weren’t muslums who carried out this kidnapping.
3 years ago
The President of Nigeria a Moslem is asked by Trump a month ago “Why are you killing Cristian” the president later complained to his Muslim buddies. Mow Trump militarily rescues a Chrsitian kidnapped by Militants working in Nigeria.
Whats the Muslim Nigerian president going to say? – that Trump by rescuing an American hostage committed and act of war?
Let;s wait and see
3 years ago
Glad to hear about safe and sound and good guys. When I read this, I can’t help but think about those abandoned at Bengahzi and the aftermath. I don’t know what all was going on there, but there were many documented calls for help.
3 years ago
Reply to
[email protected]
Had Trump been president the response would have been different.
3 years ago
President Trump has been bringing a level of respect for America back to America. He is also a beacon of hope and desire for freedom to many peoples in the world.
I know these operations carry a degree of risk and a high price tag for the American people. I think of it as also being real life training for our elite military. All in all it is probably well worth the cost several times over. Thank you President Trump!
3 years ago
Ask Mr. Walton’s family how they feel about the left’s proposals to defund the DOD.
3 years ago
Do you mean he did not ask them politely to release our hostage with a “pretty please with a cherry on top” like the previous pansy ass administration would have done? He did not drop $150 billion on their airport tarmac? It’s about time we had a REAL President. We most likely will NOT hear this on the LSM.
3 years ago
That is some pathetic photo-op bs right before an election. I don’t see trump rescuing citizens in NK, USSR, Mexico, when they get kidnapped. Shame he doesn’t put that money into saving US citizens that do not go out of their way to put themselves in dangerous situations.
