Senior members of SEAL Team 6 felt the pattern of brutality was not only illegal but rose to the level of war crimes. A Predator drone video feed filmed an enemy fighter standing over Robertss body for two minutes, trying to behead the dead American with a knife. Some of the assaulters on the mission were also angry with Bissonnette and ONeill because they neglected their responsibilities after bin Ladens son was shot. The operation commanded high-level interest because Norgrove, though in Afghanistan as an aid worker for DAI, an American NGO, secretly worked with Britains MI-6, according to four U.S. military and intelligence sources. The code is a conspiracy of silence, one that many more are complicit in than just the SEALs themselves. The commands top noncommissioned officer placed their names on the SEAL Team 6 rock of shame, the unofficial list of unit pariahs. His name was added to SEAL. Bottom left: A Winkler hatchet similar to those issued to Red Squadron. Following his separation from the Navy, O'Neill's name was added to SEAL Team 6's "rock of shame," an unofficial list of unit pariahs, and he was banned from the team's Virginia Beach headquarters. We just slaughtered those dudes. After describing one particular fighter who from a distance had resembled Osama bin Laden, Slabinksi continued: To this day, weve never had anything as good as that. And part of that was getting rid of Britt Slabinski.. He was unarmed and wearing pajamas. They had bonded over Robertss death. Top left: CIA paramilitary officer and former SEAL Team 6 member Richard Smethers. At that point, Hyder began assessing the damage and surveying the dead. After three or four deployments in, you need more to get that stimulation. Hyder was new to SEAL Team 6, but as the ranking officer on the ground during that operation, he was technically in charge. Its important that you put this stuff in context, the CIA officer said. Former Seal Upvoted by Edward Tomlinson , former Damage Controlman at United States Navy (1988-1992) and Pavanne Halpin , former Manager of Pacemaker/Holter Clinic at United States Navy (2001-2005) Updated 7 mo Bad news. A SEAL who spoke Arabic interviewed bin Ladens wives and daughters until he was able to get two positive identifications. His superiors believed he had become unglued over the 2007 deployment. Then, as two of bin Ladens eldest daughters began to scream, Red quickly corralled themat the doorway, a move considered heroic by other SEALs on the mission. The second inquiry also uncovered the head on a platter remark as the instigation for the beheading in December 2007, but the commands senior enlisted leader told Slabinski he would not get the promotion or be allowed to serve at the command again because of the Pantera order. He remains on active duty and has not responded to requests for comment. Two different sources said that over a six-year period roughly 2005 through 2011 battlefield reports and accounts of atrocities, particularly mutilations and taking of trophies, were ignored by SEAL Team 6 leadership. In 2014, ONeill unveiled himself as the man who killed bin Laden in an hourlong Fox News special, just as Bissonnette published a second book. In the world of SEAL Team 6, where operators never face criminal charges despite allegations of war crimes, unjustified killings, and corruption the admirals mast was a serious rebuke. Bissonnette was much farther back down the stairwell. Top right: A bearded Red Squadron SEAL in Afghanistan. Hyder said that he and a few other SEALs began to bury the casualties near a ravine by piling rocks over them. SEALs were given wide berth as long as they could explain why they made the decision to shoot an unarmed person. O'Neill (born 10 April 1976) is a former United States Navy SEAL (1996-2012 . The CIA declined to comment for this article. It happens in war. Consequently, the SEALs initially reported to JSOC senior leaders that Norgrove had been killed by her captors. But the retired SEAL who was on the mission tells a different story. A drone flying above the convoy showed the occupants of three vehicles were heavily armed. Like Vic Hyder, he struggled to command the respect of his men. War is an adrenaline rush. As far as the teams are concerned these individuals are persona non gratis. Slabinski told Vasely, and later, Navy investigators, that there had been no foul play.. The request was approved and Slabinski was promoted. David Boreanaz as Jason Hayes Max Thieriot as Clay Spenser (episode 1-8) Neil Brown Jr. as Ray Perry AJ Buckley as Sonny Quinn Toni Trucks as Lisa Davis Raffi Barsoumian as Omar Hamza Jessica Par as Mandy Ellis Alona Tal as Stella Baxter Parisa Fakhri . Howard, who has since risen through the ranks and is currently a rear admiral, was twice rejected by his superiors for advanced SEAL Team 6 training. They realized the man had been trying to protect the women and children. We killed bad guys. A retired noncommissioned officer said Howards encouragement and provision of Winkler hatchets was simply adding fuel to the fire. Mutilation isnt part of the game.. Allowing a lack of integrity to grow and develop within any organization will lead to abuses like it or not. While on active duty, hed formed a consulting company with four other SEALs and secured a contract with one of the commands biggest equipment suppliers. After the bodies were recovered, Hyder and the other members of Red Team were forced to reckon with the mutilation and near beheading of their fellow SEAL. Slabinski experienced, charismatic, and by now legendary bridged the gap. Toni Trucks as Lieutenant (junior grade) Lisa Davis. Scott Moore, and his deputy, Capt. They didnt know it, but Roberts was already dead, shot at close range in the head shortly after his helicopter departed the mountaintop. McRaven was subsequently transferred from the unit. Richard Marcinko hoped that the number six would lead the Soviet military to inflate its assessment of the Navys SEALs. No one prepared our guys for the collateral damage and the second- and third-order effects of this war, the former SEAL leader said. Blue Squadron was led at that time by Cmdr. Its a great way to explain it away, but they have the hatchets to flaunt the law. Osama bin Laden had been branded by SEAL Team 6. Well, bad news. If I told you I cut off a head after an operation, explaining that I got caught up in the moment, went over the line one time youd have sympathy for me. The 23 SEAL Team 6 operators assigned to the mission prepared constantly for the entire month of April 2011, practicing on two different full-scale mock-ups of the bin Laden compound. In keeping with Red Squadrons appropriation of Native American culture, Howard came up with the idea to bestow 14-inch hatchets on each SEAL who had a year of service in the squadron. It was given as an honor, one more step to strive for, another sign that youre doing a good job.. He assumed it was a twisted act of misplaced revenge over the previous days events specifically, the gruesome death of Hyders teammate Neil Roberts. In the early 1980s, a group of seasoned enlisted SEAL Team 6 operators kicked McRaven off a training exercise, relieving him of his already tenuous command for being too rule-bound. By the rules of engagement he became a legitimate target and it was supported. Several of Bissonnettes teammates later informed their superiors that he had lied about his actions. Heath fired once, hitting the man, sending him tumbling down the back side of the small rise. In audio of an unpublished interview with the late MalcolmMacPherson, author of a 2005 book about Roberts Ridge, Slabinski describes in great detail an operation that took place about a week after Objective Bull. Some SEAL Team 6 leaders were appalled by how easily Vasely and Szymanski had folded under Moores pressure. On its ``Wall of Shame,' CyberSEALs says Nolan claimed to be a member of Seal teams 2 and 6. McRavens new ordersset off a struggle between the JSOC commander and SEAL Team 6s enlisted ranks that played out in a series of high-profile hostage rescues ordered by President Obama. After blowing open the iron gate blocking the main stairway, the lead assaulters, among them Bissonnette and ONeill, followed the operator known as Red up the stairs. Despite orders to detain the men, the SEALs killed all six. Today, heis a paid on-air commentator for Fox News and is reportedly eyeing a run for the Senate in his native Montana. First, the SEALs would now be required to do call outs before entering a compound. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service then opened an investigation but wasforced to rely on photographs and witness statements because active hostilities made the alleged crime scene inaccessible. You will step over the line and you start dehumanizing people. The operational tempo was very high. He even has his own line of clothing. I deny it, he said, adding that he didnt understand why Heath would have claimed to have witnessed it. In 1992, Holland went for screening by the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU, Seal Team 6). Slabinski hadtold his operators that he wanted a head on a platter. Although some of the more seasoned SEALs took the statement metaphorically, at least one operator took Slabinski at his word, interpreting it as an order. The distinction was crucial. on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadnt done it? According to a CIA officer with direct knowledge of the incident, the CIA requested that the SEALs capture, rather than kill, their militant targets. After Robertss death, Slabinksi wanted revenge. Hed left the SEALs before the worst of the atrocities had taken place, though his former teammates would occasionally call him to report what was happening on deployments. The discussion covered battlefield ethics. Most of the operators held a meeting to discuss what had happened on the mission. One of Bissonnettes teammates then put his gun through the front door, which was now slightly ajar, and shot the gunman in the head. The SEALs biggest concern was how much time they would have, which was dictated by the amount of fuel the two Black Hawks could carry for the round trip. They were the only shots not fired by the SEALs during the raid. While he was there, he confronted the Blue Squadron troop and the operator whod tried to behead the Taliban fighter. Evidence was presented that Slabinski gave an order to shoot all the men they encountered during another raid, whether or not they were armed. He then stood above the now indisputably dead man and canoed him, firing a round into his forehead and splitting open the top of his skull, exposing his brain. When they reached the hilltop, the operators looked down in disbelief at women and children, along with the man all were dead or mortally wounded from the spray of gunfire from the Chinooks gunners, who had unloaded after the free fire zone had been declared. A few of his female relatives were nearby. Bissonnette was viewed by Howard as the prototypical SEAL Team 6 operator: a college-educated enlisted man with a savvy understanding of tactics and technology. Every one of us is issued and carries a suppressed weapon, said one former senior SEAL, referring to the Heckler & Koch assault rifles, equipped with silencers, issued to the operators. After all that activity, hed been hiding in a ditch for 90 minutes, he gets up, hes spoken to, yelled at in the dark its disturbing. O'Neill has gone. No cuts were visible in the photos, according to a military official who has reviewed the file. Bottom: Britt Slabinski, left, and Capt. He was told that the photographs were part of SEAL Team 6s greatest hits of terrorists killed since 9/11. Tim Szymanski. In the room with four of the suspected insurgents, four SEALs counted down and canoed each sleeping man with a shot to the forehead. Its a work of fiction billed as the Bible, as the truth. The first and best-known was the rescue of Capt. At first the hatchets appeared to be merely symbolic, because such heavy, awkward weapons had no place in the gear of a special operator. The bombing stopped the convoy along a dry wadi, or ravine, with two of the trucks approximately a kilometer apart. As he approached the third floor bedroom, Red saw bin Laden standing in the doorway, peering out. Smetherss threat to expose Team 6 came just as Vice Adm.William McRaven settled in as the new commander of the Joint Special Operations Command. Less than a week before the assault, Bissonnette and ONeill got into a shouting match at the Dam Neck base over who would sell the inside story of the raid. There were no heroics, and, apart from al Kuwaitis shots, no firefight. It was really good therapy for everybody who was there.. He wasnt surprised. Most would speak about the unit only on background or without attribution, because nearly every facet of SEAL Team 6 is classified. No one was upset that he ordered a beheading or all the men shot even if they were unarmed. Why would I do that? he asked. According to his own description, the first two rounds hit bin Ladens forehead. He was allowed to return to the regular SEAL teams. By all accounts, Slabinski, a second-generation SEAL who joined Team 6 in 1993, was an excellent sniper and reconnaissance operator. He said it and one of his operators did it because he believed he was following an order.. When investigators approached the operator accused of mutilating the dead fighter, he exercised his right to remain silentand his right to counsel. The list also includes Britt Slabinski, who was blacklisted in 2015 following the New York Times article that quoted him denying hed ever ordered his men to kill unarmed Afghan targets. Bottom: McRaven, left, and Capt. They were both talented and competitive, and they were determined to profit from their experiences as SEALs. Yet immediately after the mission, ONeill described shooting bin Laden while he was on the floor. No issues with that. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of revenge ops, unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities a pattern of criminal violence that emergedsoon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the commands leadership. By the time we moved over to Iraq, we were doing missions as much as five nights a week. His name was added to SEAL Team 6's "rock of shame," an unofficial list of pariahs from the famed unit, the outlet said. ONeills decision to canoe the al Qaeda leader made him unrecognizable. His account credits Red with the shot that felled bin Laden and holds that he and a third SEAL presumably ONeill fired several rounds into bin Laden as he was lying on the floor. Hes just beginning to suffer for what he did, said anotherSEAL Team 6 leader. Inside, they found six militants, four in one room, all sleeping with weapons near their beds. When SEAL Team 6 first deployed to Afghanistan in January 2002, the commandhad three assault teams, Red, Blue, and Gold, each with a mascot. We shoot em. Army 1942-1945 WW II S/Sgt 4/26/1916 6/21/20072126th AAF BU,. The two Chinooks landed separately, one near each end of the convoy. They are taught to live and if necessary die for one another. When SEAL Team 6 operators were occasionally confronted about the desecration, the SEAL leader said, theyd often joke that they were just great shots.. Made up of no more than 200 SEAL operators when the Afghan war began, SEAL Team 6 was the lesser known of the U.S. military's elite "special mission" units. Top: Capt. This directive had one primary purpose: to protect U.S. forces from accusations of unjustified killings by Afghan government officials. Senior leaders at the command knew about the misconduct and did little to eradicate it. He was quietly removed from Team 6 and returned to a regular SEAL unit. According to three sources familiar with the debrief, Bissonnette never fired his weapon at Kuwaiti. I shot him about 20 times in the legs, and every time youd kick him, er, shoot him, he would kick up, you could see his body twitching and all that. Red could see bin Laden bleeding out from his chest wound but he still had not entered the bedroom. Other military and intelligence officials who have served with or investigated the unit were also interviewed. Red came to a stop and fired two shots with his suppressed rifle. Top left: Red Squadron tattoo. When Szymanski, who was then commanding officer of all regular East Coast-based SEAL teams, heard that Slabinski had been rejected by Team 6, he requested him as his senior enlisted adviser. He was Ahmed al Kuwaiti, one of bin Ladens couriers. Im not condoning the behavior theres no justification to hacking a body but we didnt prepare them either. Red Squadron snipers killed three pirates who were holding Phillips in a lifeboat. In the end, their inclusion in the bin Laden raid and their roles defined where they fit in: Bissonnette worked closely with the CIA and SEAL Team 6 superiors during the planning phase to help plot out the assault, and would lead a team of operators to find and kill bin Ladens courier. He said canoeing became big in 2007. The mission was code-named Objective Bull. One former SEAL leader who attended the proceeding told me McRavens message to the commands leadership was clear. Iraq was a different kind of war nothing wed ever seen, said the now-retired Team 6 leader. That seems more fair. And here were two guys who set out to make money off a mission that required 23 SEALs to pull off: Its dishonorable., Bissonnette and ONeill are no longer welcome at SEAL Team 6 headquarters. But according to multiple SEAL sources, the incident did in fact occur. The lack of battlefield discipline was not limited to a single squadron. According to the New York Times, Afghans accused Blue Squadron of killing civilians during that operation, but a subsequent military investigation determined that all those killed had been armed and hostile. What he has not done is name the practice or reveal that by canoeing bin Laden he had secured the ultimate war trophy, the culmination of a decades worth of bloody sport by elements of SEAL Team 6 who considered themselves craftsmen of killing. Oh my gosh. Back at the base, hegave a speech to a group of analysts and nonoperational officers in which he told them that his bloody appearance was a demonstration of how a battlefield commander should lead. Its sport., The former SEAL Team 6 leader said that he first noticed canoeing in 2004, and that it does occur accidentally on the battlefield, but rarely. Previously, the command had required only a frontal shot and a profile of each dead militant. As far as the teams are concerned these individuals are persona non gratis. Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. A former SEAL filed an appeal Tuesday, Dec. 21, that paints military leaders and their attorneys as corrupt martinets and levels allegations of rampant legal and sexual shenanigans by senior operators inside the ultrasecret Development Group, better known as "SEAL Team 6." The morning after Objective Bull, Red Team gathered at Bagram Air Base. SEAL Team 6 patches. Questions about battlefield atrocities persisted, though some excused these actions in the name of psychological warfare against the enemy. There's a strong bias in the Teams where the best guys get out after one or two Platoons and the turds stick around. Shortly after that operation, a CIA paramilitary officer named Richard Smethers, who was himself a retired SEAL Team 6 officer, complained to his CIA superiors in Kabul that SEALs were committing atrocities. The kind of reporting we do is essential to democracy, but it is not easy, cheap, or profitable. Survivors began to flee the wreckage, and over the radio, Hyder and his team heard the order that the convoy was now in a free fire zone, allowing the Chinooks gunners to fire at anyone deemed a threat, regardless of whether they were armed. During the mission, the SEALs reported receiving small arms fire from exterior positions, though no one was hit. The falsehoods, both significant and slight, demonstrate that even when conducting the most important missions, SEAL Team 6 was unable to rise above the culture of deceit, personal enrichment, and self-aggrandizement that has corrupted a fighting unit legendary for its discipline and code of honor. THEY HAVE A GRAVESTONE/ROCK OF Shame at DEVGRU (Team 6 to the uninformed); they have a Grave Stone / Rock of Shame. ONeill then fired two rounds. For some of them, what was most troubling was not that Hyder mighthave taken gratuitous revenge for Robertss death on an unrelated civilian, but that on more than one occasion, as ground force commander, he had fired his own weapon to neutralize perceived threats. Red encountered and shot bin Ladens son just before the second floor landing, and the SEALs following behind him fanned out into the hallways and rooms on the second floor to search and secure the area. You really do. This account of the crimes of SEAL Team 6 results from a two-year investigation drawing on interviews with 18 current and former members of the unit, including four former senior leaders of the command. Bissonnettes book was the first eyewitness account, and it contradicted the Obama administrations narrative. Moore, sitting in his office in Virginia Beach, pressed Vasely: What had he actually seen? By aflam arabia. In his interview with the Times, Slabinski asserted that it was he who had witnessed the operator slashing at the dead fighters throat, saying, It appeared he was mutilating a body. Slabinski portrayed himself as trying to police his men and said that he gave them a very stern speech. He claimed to the Times that he told his men, If any of you feel a need to do any retribution, you should call me. Slabinski says nothing in the Times story about Vasely ordering him to investigate the scene or the remark about a head on a platter. Canoeing was just one of several acts of mutilation frequently carried out by SEALs. Im disappointed he didnt take a knee.. Bissonnettes bestselling book, No Easy Day, was published in September 2012, four months after he retired and less than two weeks after ONeill got out of the Navy. Created in 1980 and based at the. Two other SEAL Team 6 leaders with a combined 35 years at the command said the removal of Slabinski and the failure to pursue official punishment was an indictment of the senior officers they had failed one of their most basic duties, to hold themselves and others accountable for wrongdoing. Both should have remained on the second floor. McRaven, who was informed of the killings only after he knew Phillips was safe, was incensed. Brian Snyder; Instagram. A fierce firefight erupted between the four SEALs and a much larger enemy force of more than 50 anti-coalition insurgents. Several of their teammates on the mission had to intervene, according to a former SEAL Team 6 operator. The publication came as a surprise to the Pentagon because Bissonnette had failed to clear it as required. Normally, SEAL Team 6s commanding officer, a captain, would conduct a captains mast, a form of non-judicial punishment. Tactically, there was little about the upcoming raid that was complex. One retired senior SEAL Team 6 leader was there who led the unit during the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. On May 1, two stealth Black Hawk helicopters took off from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and headed east toward Abbottabad. corel draw 12 free download filehippo. According to a senior JSOC official, the Norgrove operation was an I told you so moment. Even so, two of the three SEALs later returned to the unit. The SEALs were suspected of taking the money. Neither wasloaded. Only three years later, Kevin Holland left the Navy. He ordered a pause in most SEAL and JSOC operations over a two-week period in February 2009. The enemy had the SEALs outnumbered. With more extensive photographic documentation, SEAL operators had less time to fire unnecessary rounds into the dead, and they had to use the photos to explain why they fired their weapon. The operation, code-named ANSTRUTHER, an homage to Norgroves Scottish heritage, was authorized by British Prime Minister David Cameron. They each entered Red Squadron at the same time, and were both recipients of the Winkler hatchets handed out by Wyman Howard. Tactically, however, the command was winning on the battlefield, and despite McRavens directives, there was no serious internal scrutiny of the SEALs most excessive conduct. As attorney and crime author Andrew Vachss once wrote, "it takes a village to rape a child." The criminals are ultimately enabled by everyone around them who maintains the code of silence. How many covert wars, miscarriages of justice, and dystopian technologies would remain hidden if our reporters werent on the beat? Two of these sources told me that the British government informed SEAL Team 6 mission planners that Norgrove worked for the spy agency, and that they had been tracking her movements since the abduction. 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