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SEAL Who Killed bin Laden Jobless,Offered No Security
The Washington Examiner ^ | Monday, February 11, 2013 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/11/2013 6:23:31 AM PST by kristinn

The Navy SEAL Team Six "shooter" who put two rounds into Osama bin Laden's forehead May 2, 2011, is jobless, struggling to pay basic bills and has been offered no protection from the retaliation he anticipates from al Qaeda, according to his first interview.

Only described as "the shooter" by Esquire, he also charges that the SEAL who recently wrote a book about the raid, celebrated in the new movie Zero Dark Thirty, wrongly took credit for killing the 9/11 mastermind. The shooter said that the other SEAL simply shot the corpse of bin Laden in the chest.

The long article in the upcoming magazine said that the shooter came forward to talk about the raid to bring attention to the lack of support offered by the Pentagon or administration for troops once they come home.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: navyseals; obama; osamabinladen; seal; sealteamsix
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1 posted on 02/11/2013 6:23:36 AM PST by kristinn
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He should go to work for Mossad


2 posted on 02/11/2013 6:24:50 AM PST by jsanders2001
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Most ex-seals don’t remain unemployed long.


3 posted on 02/11/2013 6:27:27 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kristinn

Absurd isn’t it.


4 posted on 02/11/2013 6:27:33 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: kristinn
And he added one interesting detail: If captured by Pakistani troops, Vice President Biden was to negotiate their release.

A suicide mission, in other words.

5 posted on 02/11/2013 6:29:24 AM PST by skeeter
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To: kristinn

Why should we believe any of this “interview”?


6 posted on 02/11/2013 6:30:25 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: jsanders2001

I am sure Blackwater or some other high end sequrity firm would hire him in an instant.
However, if he wants to run his mouth(unlikely), he could become a consultant for Fox News.


7 posted on 02/11/2013 6:30:35 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: kristinn

So 0’s administration threw him under the bus?


8 posted on 02/11/2013 6:32:47 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: treetopsandroofs

I am skeptical too. Seals get hired, as they should. They are amazing people, and there’s not a lot of amazing going around.


9 posted on 02/11/2013 6:33:20 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: kristinn
to bring attention to the lack of support offered by the Pentagon or administration for troops once they come home.

Welcome to Odungoworld

10 posted on 02/11/2013 6:35:29 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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"The shooter said that the other SEAL simply shot the corpse of bin Laden in the chest."

What!!??? Well, this is an injustice that must be immediately corrected! We must assure that this other Seal is ALSO unemployed as-soon-as-possible and denied protection from those who might seek retribution!

Nuthin' but the best for our boys! (/sarc)

11 posted on 02/11/2013 6:35:44 AM PST by DJ Frisat ((optional, printed after my name on post))
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“But the Shooter will discover soon enough that when he leaves after sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis, tendonitis, eye damage, and blown disks, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation: nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family.”

Am going to raise the BS flag. Judging from his injuries incurred in service, he is eligible for disability payments and care from the VA. Also, why separate at 16 years? One more tour would have qualified him for a pension. Very curious.


13 posted on 02/11/2013 6:36:35 AM PST by KantianBurke (Where was the Tea Party when Dubya was spending like a drunken sailor?)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I’m with you. Why believe this BS? Maybe the writer found a good way to discourage others to fight for their country.


14 posted on 02/11/2013 6:37:26 AM PST by albie (`)
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To: kristinn

Hold on, I thought OBAMA killed Osama.


15 posted on 02/11/2013 6:41:37 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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In the book "NO EASY DAY" here on my desk on pages 295 -296-297 the author says that the "point man" in front of him actually shot Obama and the author and another seal put some rounds into the body laying on the floor because - "In his death throes, he was still twitching and convulsing."...

The author does not say that "he" killed Obama.

16 posted on 02/11/2013 6:47:16 AM PST by KeyLargo
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It’s hard to believe what has become of our military. What should be public is kept secret and what should be secret is headlines. This problem is systemic at all levels.


17 posted on 02/11/2013 6:47:32 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: KeyLargo
Freudian slip?
18 posted on 02/11/2013 6:51:13 AM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: KantianBurke

Yes, it sounds like a bunch of hooey.


19 posted on 02/11/2013 6:52:56 AM PST by bgill
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To: kristinn

Reads as though Obama has had all the SEALS associated with the mission blackballed.


20 posted on 02/11/2013 6:54:20 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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