Related: recently, French Operatuers tried to rescue a spy in custody of the bad guys in Somalia...the bad guys were somehow tipped off to the incoming raid and were present in numbers and ready. The French team was repelled with 2 casualties.

A bit ghastly, so don't look if you aren't okay with it. Pic of one of the killed french operatuers:



Apparently the french SF guys (or at least this guy and one other) favored the MP7 and Glock 19. Typical gear for a SF raid otherwise - breaching stuff and so forth.



Arrow is where they deployed from helis, expecting to roll in with total surprise. The box is where the target was, and where lots of somalis were, ready for them.

There have been a few western SF teams apparently ambushed by the enemy who is ready and waiting. Is the enemy penetrating our intelligence services or are we just becoming predictable?

Or are they just getting lucky?