Posted on 09/17/2012 5:41:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.......The most detailed account appears to be an article titled “What happened that night in Abbottabad” in the Aug. 8, 2011,issue of the New Yorker. Citing authorized interviews,it offers direct quotes from Ben Rhodes,a deputy national security adviser for strategic communications;Mr. Obama’s counterterrorism adviser,John Brennan;and Marine Gen. James Cartwright,then-Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman. It also includes statements from a “senior Obama adviser.”
The article’s sequence of events closely mirror what Mr. Bissonnette wrote:The Black Hawk helicopters’ route,how the SEALs entered the compound, how they moved from room to room,the weapons used,how security was maintained around the perimeter,the killing itself, the radio broadcast to Washington that confirmed the death,the hunt for intelligence documents,and the “exfil,” or flight back to base.
Mr. Bissonnette’s book describes the same events, only in first-person with the author’s thoughts and actions at the moment. The New Yorker author has said he did not interview any of the 24 men on the mission itself.
For instance, when the SEALs entered bin Laden’s room,two of his wives protected the gravely wounded al Qaeda leader.
The New Yorker author wrote: “Fearing that one or both women were wearing suicide jackets, he stepped forward, wrapped them in a bear hug, and drove them aside. He would almost certainly have been killed had they blown themselves up, but by blanketing them he would have absorbed some of the blast and potentially saved the two SEALs behind him. In the end,neither woman was wearing an explosive vest.”
Wrote Mr. Bissonnette:“Swinging his gun to the side, the point man grabbed both women and drove them toward the corner of the room. If either woman had on a suicide vest,he probably saved our lives,but it would have cost him his own.”
The New Yorker article relies on quotes from a “special operations officer.”....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Makes me ill. A moment in history that should go honored but unacknowledged is being exploited for a CIC. The controversy (and downright treasonous links coming from the admin.)is dividing the best we have.
I don’t care who was allegedly first, throw all the leakers in jail!
Would this book have been written in another time? I honestly don't think so. Should his book have been written now? I'm still on the fence given the numerous supposed leaks from this administration. But, if anyone should be tried, they need to start with the administration.
I finished the book his weekend. It was well written and an easy read. If they go after his Seal, I'm willing to pony up some money to contribute to a defense fund.
Would this book have been written in another time? I honestly don't think so. Should his book have been written now? I'm still on the fence given the numerous supposed leaks from this administration. But, if anyone should be tried, they need to start with the administration.
I finished the book his weekend. It was well written and an easy read. If they go after his Seal, I'm willing to pony up some money to contribute to a defense fund.
I know there are domestic terrorists in the WH.
It's important to vote these people out of office.
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