Video Shows Firefight With ISIS That Killed Navy Seal in Iraq

A cell phone video has emerged that shows the brutal firefight with ISIS that killed U.S. Navy Seal Charles Keating IV in Iraq this week.

The video was first obtained by The Guardian, and was subsequently re-aired on CNN.

The Guardian reports:

The footage – filmed on a cellphone during the battle, which lasted more than half a day – reveals the extent to which the US military is once again engaged in intense combat in Iraq.

Provided to the Guardian by the lieutenant of an elite Kurdish peshmerga unit, the video shows a convoy of four by four vehicles coming under fire near Tel Osqof, a Christian town about 30km north of Mosul.

Amid the crackle of gunfire, peshmerga fighters and at least six US troops take cover behind an unarmored pickup truck on an arterial road leading into the town.

After airing a segment of the video, CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto described it as a “surprise attack, but a sophisticated attack.”

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