months during the obama administration but president trump was left with the task of green lighting the operation due to requirements that made the mission necessary after january 20th. one of those operational requirements was the absence of moonlight to help provide cover as the special forces moved in. unfortunately for them al qaeda was able to protect them coming in even without the moonlight and the fire fight broke out involving small armed fire or grenades. it's believed to have caused a significant number of causalities and a u.s. aircraft suffered some technical difficulties forcing it to conduct a hard landing and forcing the u.s. military to destroy it and prevent that technology falling into enemy hands. now the information including hard drives grabbed during the raid actually is already yielding valuable intelligence.