allie>  All missions that are undertaken, come with risks and of course tremendous danger to the participants.  No mission is a "cake walk." and those who plan it, those who will undertake it all understand the dangers.  This mission was on the "books" for quite sometime, under the BHO  admiin..  Could there be a conspiracy here where the intel that was provided was old and inaccurate?  Was it intentionally done so that the mission would fail?  Your guess is as good as mine,  Remember "Murphy;s Law" is always present, unfortunately.