The senior leadership of the US Navy’s SEAL community—the commander and force master chief of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC)—have officially distanced themselves from a so-called SEAL Team Six member, labeled in the media as ‘The Shooter’.
The man claims to have been the operator who shot Osama Bin Ladin in the 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaeda leader. Eyewitnesses on the scene have since contradicted the White House’s story of the raid.
Thousands of sailors on the US aircraft carrier from which Bin Laden was said to have been dumped into the Indian Ocean also wrote home that no such burial took place.
In a letter signed by both the senior commander and enlisted man of Naval Special Warfare Command, the SEAL leadership denied that the so-called Shooter was part of their team, pointing out that to reveal such classified information is a violation of the law.
Rear Admiral Brian Losey, Commander of NSWC, and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci state that violators of that ethos “are neither teammates in good standing, nor teammates who represent Naval Special Warfare.”
Osama bin Laden became the only human in history to survive renal failure for ten years. There was no dialysis machine in what was said to be Bin Laden’s hideout. The Obama administration have also ignored the numerous obituaries of bin Laden’s death in December 2001.
It was reported earlier that 22 Navy SEALs, most of whom belonged to Team 6, died after their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. This was the largest loss of life in a single day since the 2001 invasion.
Several more members of the team that allegedly carried out the dubious raid on Bin Laden’s compound, have also wound up dead.
Unlike Bradley Manning who received jail time for leaking classified military information, SEAL Team Six members who speak out are somehow not punished.