SEALs details "directly contradicts" Obama

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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SEALs detail bin Laden killing in new book
The Examiner Washington, by Hayley Peterson

The Obama administration's account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden "directly contradicts" the experiences of Navy SEALs involved, according to a new book by former SEAL commander Chuck Pfarrer.

In "SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden," Pfarrer details the mission through extensive interviews with the SEALs involved, the book advertises.

"In a hasty effort to claim victory and make political haste, administration aides changed their stories several times," reads a press release for the book. "Their leaks made SEAL Team Six look ineffective and clumsy."

The book sets the record straight, the release claims, "taking readers on the helicopter flight over the wall that leads deep into the terrorist lair and describing what it looked, sounded and smelled like as the bullets flew."

Key contradictions between Pfarrer's account and the White House account include details on how the SEALs entered bin Laden's compound - they landed on the roof, not the ground, according to the book - and how long it took the SEALs team to kill bin Laden, which the book says was roughly 90 seconds.

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer. ... g-new-book

SEALs details "directly contradicts" the Obama Administration's account.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Revealed: How Obama was playing golf until 20
minutes before Navy SEALs began mission to take out
Bin Laden
Daily Mail, by Daniel Bates

* Stayed out on golf course to distance himself if it went wrong, book claims
* We would have taken him alive if he surrendered, says commander
* Al-Qaeda leader's wife screamed: 'No, no, don't do this... it’s not him!'
* SEALs nicknamed Bin Laden 'Bert' in reference to Sesame Street muppet

In the official photograph, he looked every inch the commander in chief.

Strain etched on his face, Barack Obama watched as the raid to kill Osama bin Laden played out on a television in front of him.

According to a new book, however, the President was not nearly that engaged – and was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before the operation began in earnest.
Only then did he down his clubs and return to the White House to watch what he later trumpeted as a great success of his presidency.

A new book claims the official account was riddled with errors and that Bin Laden was referred to as 'Bert' and not just 'Geronimo'.

Also, none of the Navy SEALs said the now famous words: 'For God and country', and when they burst into Bin Laden's room, his wife screamed: 'No, no, don't do this... it’s not him!'

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Mr Pfarrer says the President's role was largely inflated and suggests he stayed out on the golf course for so long so he could distance himself in case it went wrong. Mr Pfarrer writes: 'If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow.'

He says the White House photographs did not show the moment that Bin Laden was killed, but the moment a helicopter went down, which happened after the shooting.

Mr Obama is known to be a keen golfer. Just today, as the White House was being encircled by 8,000 environmental protesters, he was on a course in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The President also played golf four times during his week-long family holiday on Martha's Vineyard.

The book also claims that bin Laden would have been captured if he gave himself up. Mr Pfarrer said a SEAL team would not have been sent in for a kill mission, adding: 'If it was a kill mission you don't need SEAL Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades.'

The book also gives a dramatic new insight into what happened during the 1am raid, during which only 12 bullets were fired.
Fighting force: SEAL Team 6 were the elite soldiers who killed Bin Laden after a stealth mission

Within 90 seconds of their helicopter landing, the SEALs saw Bin Laden slam his bedroom door shut. Two SEALs burst in and saw Bin Laden and one of his four wives, Amal, who shouted: 'It's not him!'

Contrary to White House statements that he was unarmed, Bin Laden had a gun next to him. As he shoved his wife at the SEALs, four shots were fired.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1cyo5Yf1i

-={ARCLIGHT}=- · **Posted:** Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:26 pm

Fmr. Navy SEAL calls gov't account of bin Laden raid 'fairy tale'

chuckmo48 · **Posted:** Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:09 am

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“The president made a statement, and as far as that goes, that was fine, that was the mission statement,” he explained. “But, soon after … politicians began leaking information from every orifice. And it was like a game of Chinese telephone. These guys didn’t know what they were talking about. Very few of them had even seen the video feed.”

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“But the timeline of my events,” he cautions, “and the manner in which it happened is 100 percent accurate. And they’ll know that.”

http://news.yahoo.com/correcting-fairy-tale-seal-account-osama-bin-laden-054233289.html

Regionite · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 4:06 am **Posts:** 698

Didn't Obama and Biden see the video feed?

deelight · **Joined:** Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:20 am **Posts:** 1575

Oh puhleese! Quit beating a dead horse. Bin Laden is dead and the world is a better off place for it.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Obama shouldn't get credit
for bin Laden, Bolton says
Politico, by Byron Tau

Making his first appearance since endorsing Mitt Romney, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said Obama shouldn't tout the killing of Osama Bin Laden as one of this foreign policy successes.

"The irony is that he's campaigning on the basis that he's a success as a foreign policy president," Bolton said of Obama. "This is amazing."

"It's because Navy Seal Team 6 killed Osama bin Laden That is his definition of success," Bolton continued. "In 1969, when Americans landed on the moon, it is like Richard Nixon taking credit for that. It happened to occur during his presidency."

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012 ... 10855.html

What barry CAN TAKE CREDIT for is leaking all the classified information that put these SEALs in danger resulting in a helicopter being shot down killing 18.

Moby Grape · **Joined:** Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:19 pm **Posts:** 13802

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Navy SEAL: US ignoring soldiers
killed in combat, focused
on urinating Marines [Video]
Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor

In an appearance on “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox Business Network, former Navy SEAL officer Leif Babin criticized the reaction to a video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban, pointing out that the media focuses on that while ignoring the sacrifices of fallen soldiers.

“The reaction to this is quite frustrating, I think, for everyone who has been a combat soldier, Marine, or just on the ground, and especially as a combat leader,” Babin said. “You know, you have to walk a mile in these guys’ shoes and understand where they’re coming from. Was this immature behavior? Absolutely. Does it deserve a reprimand? Sure. Are they war criminals? Absolutely not.”

Babin, who has served three tours in Iraq, earned a Silver Star, two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, and is still serving in the Navy Reserve, criticized the Obama administration officials that have called for prosecution of those Marines.

“You have press conferences, I mean, from the secretary of state. Secretary of defense-level calling it a despicable act, calling for the prosecution of these guys — ‘They will be held accountable in the strongest terms possible,’” he said. “And you know I wish we made as big a deal out of the servicemen that have given their lives in this conflict. At least 13 so far this year, and we’re not even hearing the names of those guys. They are just running sound bites of these Marines urinating on Taliban soldiers.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/17/navy- ... z1jq1NbbYM

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