Insider Attack Leaves Wounded Marine, Lingering Questions

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes called insider, or “green on blue” attacks, when U.S. forces are assaulted by their allies, it usually makes the news. That wasn’t the case in Syria when a member of the Syrian Defense Forces shot a Marine sergeant twice in the leg. Instead, there was no mention of it by the military, no press release. Instead, there was contradictory information and a curious reporter who refused to let it lie.

When Paul Szoldra of Task & Purpose first heard of the incident, the only thing that was clear was that more questions needed to be asked. He tells us what he found on this week’s episode.

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1:00.0	Operation In each with their own priorities and concerns.
1:12.6	In February last year, Marines in a remote outpost in Syria
1:16.4	learned just how complicated things can get in the Middle East.
1:19.8	Here to tell the story is the person who broke it, Paul Zoldra, who's been reporting on the story for task and purpose.
1:25.8	Paul, thank you so much for joining us.
1:28.2	Thanks so much for having me.
1:30.0	All right, so let's get the basics out of the way.
1:32.2	First, what happened in Syria last year to these Marines?
1:36.0	Well, so it was earlier this year, February 17, 2018.
1:41.9	There was what we typically call a green on blue attack or an insider attack, basically a case where a partner force fires on a member of the US military or in the case of Afghanistan, you know if a
1:59.2	Taliban infiltrate or fires on a Afghan soldier.
2:02.8	So an insider attack obviously is something that we don't like to see.
2:07.7	And that was the case in Syria on in February of earlier this year the first case ever of an insider attack in operation
2:17.4	inherent resolve.
2:18.4	What exactly did that attack look like?
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