The members of SEAL Team 6 were all squeezed together in a 50-year old helicopter in Afghanistan and flown right into an area where the Taliban would be able to take a perfect shot at them – which is exactly what happened – and all aboard the
rickety craft perished and their bodies quickly disposed of, similarly to how the body of “Osama bin Laden”, who the group were alleged to have killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan was quickly disposed of, just a few months earlier.
The announcement of this group’s involvement in such an operation was a breach in their own security and Operational Security, in general.
First, that 30 men, who had cost the government millions of dollars to train were all squeezed into the same aircraft went contrary to security procedures. Members of elite forces are usually split up into smaller groups during transport, exactly for the purposes of avoiding a mass-murder of these fighters, who are very important military assets.
Second, it was highly unusual that they should all have been inside an ancient relic of a transport helicopter, when regulations call for them to travel by modern aircraft capable of quick, evasive maneuvers.
Third, the family members of those who died do not believe any of the government’s rationalizations for why any of the above
happened. So, why should we?
Moreover, the claim that it was “Osama bin Laden” who was assassinated during their raid of Abbottabad is specious on numerous counts, as bin Laden had been long been considered dead by the Arab press and the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto accidentally let it slip during a 2007 interview with David Frost that bin Laden had been assassinated by Omar Sheikh, bin Laden’s “special son” in al Qaeda. Bhutto, herself was assassinated shortly after this interview.
Omar Sheikh, the British-born son of Pakistani immigrants was said by former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in his book, ‘In the Line of Fire’ to be: “…originally recruited by British intelligence agency, MI6, while studying at the London School of Economics,” and “at some point, he probably became a rogue or double agent”.
A report by the Pittsburgh Tribune stated that there “are many in Musharraf’s government who believe that [Omar] Sheikh’s power comes not from the ISI [Pakistan’s intelligence agency], but from his connections with our own CIA.”
Of course, we’ve all heard that Osama bin Laden, himself worked for the CIA, during Russia’s war with Afghanistan.
The moral of this story is that if you work at a high security job for the US government, you may easily end up murdered by your boss.
As for Omar Sheikh, he is currently being held in Hyderabad Central Jail in Pakistan.
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