The plan to rescue the hostages was a mess from the beginning, and too complicated to run smooth. It was bound to fail. An acquaintance was in the situation room when this was going on, watching it from the satellite images, and though he advised against it, they did it anyway..and as it unfolded, he wept for the men in the mission, when the crash was watched, and their fate happened. It was completely avoidable. We lacked HUMINT..and that was the problem. There was a window of opportunity, earlier, that came and went..be we did not act. ..for what its worth...I don't know if anyone is really interested, or if you're just having a discussion, for the sake of yakking, but I have a whole lot of data on this....that never made the news..but..so what?
Also the reason why the kidnapping, and what it was that got them released....NOTHING LIKE WHAT WE HEARD ON THE 'NEWS'....