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http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/05/pentagon-reviews-force-protection-methods-in-iraq-seals-death.html?ESRC=todayinmil.smThe U.S. Defense Department is reviewing force protection measures for U.S. troops moving forward with local forces in Iraq following the "surprise" ISIS counter-attack north of Mosul in which Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV was killed, the Pentagon's spokesman said Thursday.
Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said "hard questions" had to be asked on why U.S. intelligence and surveillance failed to detect the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, massing fighters and vehicles for an assault that broke through the front lines of the Kurdish Peshmerga the town of Teleskof, also called Tel Skuf, where Keating was fatally wounded in a firefight.
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday that the ISIS attack was a "surprise" to U.S and Kurdish forces.
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