He’s a former SEAL. Like many former operators who have written books, his name is all over the place.
From what I understood, he wrote the book and was using a pseudonym.
Again, not appropriate to shout it out on national news...
“Like many former operators who have written books, his name is all over the place”.
What is it?
One the one hand, you’re essentially correct — Dick Marcinko, Eric Haney, Chris Kyle, etc. are all former operators with very public names attached to books.
But, this is a pretty recent operation ... and Bin Laden has a hoard of suicidal lackeys that might want to avenge his death. This is probably a special case where it would be better to leave his real name undisclosed for a while.
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