The US military unleashed a stunning overnight show of force to capture Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, deploying more than 150 aircrafts, elite ground troops and overwhelming airpower — a mission months in the making, the New York Post reported.
Speaking
shortly before noon Saturday from Mar-a-Lago, Trump said the raid on Caracas —
dubbed Absolute Resolve — was ordered at 10:46 p.m. Friday after weather
briefly cleared, setting off a tightly choreographed mission that unfolded over
just more than two hours.
“At
my direction, the United States Armed Forces conducted an extraordinary
military operation in the capital of Venezuela,” Trump said.
“Overwhelming American military power, air, land and sea, was used to launch a spectacular assault, and it was an assault like people have not seen since World War II,” he added.
… Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine said helicopters carrying the extraction force lifted off first, protected by the Marines, Navy, Air Force and Air National Guard as B-1 bombers loomed overhead.
US warplanes dismantled Venezuelan air defenses — allowing helicopters to push into Caracas.
“We arrived at Maduro’s compound at 1:01 a.m.,” Caine said, describing how an apprehension force “moved with speed, precision and discipline.”
Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, “gave up” and were “taken into custody by the Department of Justice,” he said.
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