The brazen operation to capture despot Nicolas Maduro was, undeniably, one of the most daring raids in US military history. In the dead of night, more than 150 warplanes snuck across the Caribbean into Venezuela. Armed to the teeth, they pummelled the country’s Russian-made defences and plunged the South American country’s capital, Caracas, into darkness. Within two-and-a-half hours of getting the order from President Donald Trump, elite troops had infiltrated Maduro’s home and whisked him and his wife to the US, where the Trump administration planned to put the ‘narco-terrorist’ on trial for drugs and weapons charges. This is how the mission unfolded…
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The link above has a decent overview of the raid, and description of tactics and some of the weapons used. ABN