US attack on Venezuela approved four days ago, but better weather conditions was awaited. Here's how Maduro was captured
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Captured Venezuela ex-President Nicolas Maduro Photograph: (ANI/Reuters)
The mission was closely guarded and not even the Congress was informed or consulted about it. The US military was only waiting for the right time.
The US attack on Venezuela capital Caracas and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife was not an instantaneous plan by President Donald Trump and the US state machinery, in fact US spies had been monitoring Maduro's every move for months. A small team, including one source within the Venezuelan government kept a track of the 63-year-old's each move like when he slept, what he wore and what he ate. Also his pets were tracked by the intelligence staff.
US troops also created a full-size replica of Maduro's Caracas safe house to practise their entry routes. And after keeping a track for months, the mission called "Operation Absolute Resolve" was finalised in early December last year.
The mission was closely guarded and not even the Congress was informed or consulted about it. The US military was only waiting for the right time.
In fact four days earlier President Trump had given his nod for the attack but the US military chose to wait for better weather and less cloud cover.
"Over the weeks through Christmas and New Year, the men and women of the United States military sat ready, patiently waiting for the right triggers to be met and the president to order us into action," said Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine.
"We were going to do this four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, and then all of a sudden it opened up. And we said: Go," he added.
Trump's order came shortly before midnight in Caracas, giving the military greater opportunity to operate in darkness.
The mission "Operation Absolute Resolve"
The attack was a two-hour and twenty-minute mission by air, land and sea. It was unprecedented if compared to the scale and precision it was carried out with.
Trump, watched the complex capture in Caracas play out in real time from a room in Mar-a-Lago alongside military generals.
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“If you would have seen what happened, I mean, I watched it literally, like I was watching a television show,” he said to Fox news
