Didn't Seymour Hersch write a story that basically alleged that the mission was to take Osama alive in Pakistan covertly, interrogate him, and then stick him in a car in Afghanistan and drone strike it in order not to publicly implicate Pakistan who were supposed to be an ally?
I'm not 100% sold on that but I could absolutely see that going out the window when they crashed their stealth helicopter and instead just reverted to lighting up everyone in the compound. I could totally believe zealous Navy Seals all wanting to be the guy who popped Bin Laden taking their chance regardless of the original mission too, but I'd be equally unsurprised if they captured him and tortured him to death before doing the whole smoke and mirrors about his burial etc.
Makes me think of how the US supported the South Vietnamese president being couped in 62, but then instead of getting him to the US alive one of the captors just shot him in the back of an APC
Didn't Seymour Hersch write a story that basically alleged that the mission was to take Osama alive in Pakistan covertly, interrogate him, and then stick him in a car in Afghanistan and drone strike it in order not to publicly implicate Pakistan who were supposed to be an ally?
I'm not 100% sold on that but I could absolutely see that going out the window when they crashed their stealth helicopter and instead just reverted to lighting up everyone in the compound. I could totally believe zealous Navy Seals all wanting to be the guy who popped Bin Laden taking their chance regardless of the original mission too, but I'd be equally unsurprised if they captured him and tortured him to death before doing the whole smoke and mirrors about his burial etc.
Makes me think of how the US supported the South Vietnamese president being couped in 62, but then instead of getting him to the US alive one of the captors just shot him in the back of an APC