Posted on 05/04/2011 9:51:30 AM PDT by bigbob
Who shot bin Laden? Former SEALs fill in the blanks
He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the worlds most notorious terrorist.
Yet there are clues, and the beginnings of a portrait can be pieced together from scraps gleaned from U.S. officials. A trio of former Navy SEALs Eric Greitens, Richard Marcinko and Stew Smith helped us fill in the blanks, drawing from their experiences to develop a kind of composite sketch of an elusive historic figure in real time.
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I hope we never learn the identity of the triggerman, but I hope he receives all due recognition from his peers and superior officers. Thank you sir, whomever you are.
A liberal would answer by saying an assault rifle or semi-automatic handgun.
If the news media (or for that anyone in our government) should release the identities of those involved, they should be jailed for life, if not worse. It would be the most despicable breach of trust one could imagine.
It was Mitch Rapp.
The actual triggerman deserves no more credit than those who were with him, all of whom risked their lives in valiant duty.
LOL! Just got my Vince Flynn newsletter today in which he wrote:
“Mitch Rapp was not directly involved, but the CIA’s Clandestine Service was. I’m told they were in the neighborhood for three months casing the joint and collecting intelligence. The operation is very reminiscent of the opening scenes in Memorial Day when the Joint Special Operations Command sends a strike team over the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan to capture a high value target. In the book the U.S. Government does not inform the Pakistani government because we know the terrorists are in bed with their intelligence service. Sounds strikingly familiar to what happened Sunday. It’s a great day for America! We owe a debt of thanks to the CIA and JSOC.”
I think Clark and Chavez and Jack Bauer are off the hook, too ;-)
That guy ought to get free beers from here on out!!
It was Jack Bauer.
How about John Clarke or Ding Chavez?
Definitely not Dirk Pitt. He’s Air Force.
Surprised they are saying anything
A lot of former high school wrestlers, you can bet.
Maybe that’s why they’re former SEALs
Type ‘A’ personality...you can see the riggers of the training at YouTube...
Yeah, you would think they would STFU about operations and personnel. Why to people have to brag and show off about this stuff??
Or Scott Harvath...
Or Scott Coleman.
The Washington Compost will not rest until these men are outted.
I loved the part where they through them in the pigpen.
threw not through
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