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'For God and country - Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo': The words the SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden radioed home - and why no-one will ever know his identity
When he pulled the trigger on his silenced rifle in a darkened bedroom in Pakistan and shot a tall, unarmed man with a straggly beard in a prayer cap and shalwar kameez, he ended a nine-year manhunt for Osama Bin Laden, the man who claimed 2,973 lives on September 11, 2001.
But no-one - not even President Barack Obama - will ever know the name of that SEAL, nor of the comrade who wrapped Bin Laden's wives in a huge bear hug and dragged them aside in case they were wearing suicide bomb vests, knowing he would absorb most of the blast and save the men behind him.
According to the article in this week's New Yorker, it also emerged 'there was never any question of detaining or capturing' Bin Laden - even though the White House always insisted the terror leader would not have died if he'd surrendered.
It also revealed that the SEALs were not wearing cameras on their helmets, and Mr Obama and his colleagues spent nearly 25 minutes anxiously waiting to hear from the 23 SEALs, one translator and a Belgian Malinois dog named Cairo who were engaged in the covert raid to kill the Al Qaeda mastermind.
They had begun planning some kind of raid in late 2010, soon after agents first discovered the compound where they believed Bin Laden was hiding, according to a senior operations officer 'deeply familiar' with the raid.
The US top brass actually wanted Delta Force to carry out the raid but after Team 6 had embarrassingly killed Linda Norgrove the previous september, they were convinced the let Team 6 "save face" and do the mission. Delta force aren't human, which is why there was a Delta team on standby the entire mission in one of the waiting back up helicopters to make sure nothing went wrong.
I do agree but the Seals are, and have been targets. They didn't need to kill OBL to become targets etc.
What does that mean? Is he inferring that they act like animals.
Originally posted by bluemirage5
They never got OBL whom I still believed died 10 years ago, instead, they either got a complete stranger or it never went down at all.
Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?
Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.
Originally posted by MainLineThis
Pics or it didn't happen! Seriously, we saw pics os Saddams sons and even cell phone video of his hanging. Where's the pics of this?
Originally posted by anon72
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk...
**The main aritlce source (however, date on story is Aug 8, 2011 (hasn't been released yet?-thought it would be best to stay with the published story...: www.newyorker.com...
Originally posted by OuttaTime
Why do you think they dumped the body so fast?
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nor of the comrade who wrapped Bin Laden's wives in a huge bear hug and dragged them aside in case they were wearing suicide bomb vests, knowing he would absorb most of the blast and save the men behind him.
Originally posted by anon72
reply to post by Misterlondon
Yes, of course. But, the "other side" will say that it is because they broke laws etc and they should be able to hvae access to him -legally, to potentially bring an International Law suit against the US?
Just playing Devils Advocate.
I do agree but the Seals are, and have been targets. They didn't need to kill OBL to become targets etc.