{"id":16765,"date":"2014-11-07T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16765"},"modified":"2014-11-07T08:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T06:35:43","slug":"seals-officially-distance-themselves-from-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16765","title":{"rendered":"SEALs officially distance themselves from &#8216;Shooter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The senior leadership of the US Navy\u2019s SEAL community\u2014the commander and force master chief of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC)\u2014have officially distanced themselves\u00a0from\u00a0a so-called\u00a0SEAL Team Six member, labeled\u00a0in the media\u00a0as \u2018The Shooter&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The man claims\u00a0to have been the operator who shot Osama Bin Ladin in the 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaeda leader.\u00a0Eyewitnesses on the scene have since contradicted the White House\u2019s story of the raid.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter signed by both the senior commander and enlisted man of Naval Special Warfare Command, the SEAL leadership denied that\u00a0the so-called Shooter was part of their team,\u00a0pointing out that to reveal such classified information is a violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Admiral Brian Losey, Commander of NSWC, and Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci state that violators of that ethos \u201care neither teammates in good standing, nor teammates who represent Naval Special Warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s hideout. The Obama administration have also ignored the numerous obituaries of bin Laden\u2019s death in December 2001.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported earlier\u00a0that 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.<\/p>\n<p>Several more members of the team\u00a0that allegedly carried out the dubious raid on Bin Laden\u2019s compound, have also wound up dead.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Bradley Manning\u00a0who received jail time\u00a0for leaking classified military information,\u00a0SEAL Team Six members who speak out are somehow not punished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior leadership of the US Navy\u2019s SEAL community\u2014the commander and force master chief of Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC)\u2014have officially distanced themselves\u00a0from\u00a0a so-called\u00a0SEAL Team Six member, labeled\u00a0in the media\u00a0as \u2018The Shooter&#8217;. The man claims\u00a0to have been the operator who shot Osama Bin Ladin in the 2011 raid that killed the Al-Qaeda leader.\u00a0Eyewitnesses on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=16765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEALs officially distance themselves from &#8216;Shooter&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[10501,6546,10500,710],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-naval-special-warfare-command","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-seals-seal-team-six","tag-shooter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}