Presumably, Chuck Norris told him.
The worst thing about being on SEAL Team 6 is that you can’t tell anybody you’re on SEAL Team 6. That’s got to be a special kind of torture. The guy who got the kill shot on bin Laden must be dying to brag about it, but never can. At least his team will know, and maybe his name will be whispered among SEALs in general. The hell of it is ios that even if he told people, they’d think he was full of shit.
“I was on SEAL Team 6. I’m the one who shot bin Laden.”
“Yeah, right.” :rolleyes:
“No, seriously. I really did kill bin Laden. It was me.”
“Uh huh.”
Unfortunately a burial at sea isn’t in accordance with Islamic rites.
Sea burial is only allowed in very specific circumstances, which Osama’s death doesn’t meet.
Do I think it’s the best viable solution? Most likely.
But it will and has caused anger.
I do not live in the US. I live in a country that neighbours a Muslem majority country.
One of my muslem friends has already posted on his facebook that were the Prophet to still be alive he would not take Osama as amongst his followers.
Of course the same person is still annoyed at the “jubilation” shown in the US over the death of a monster of its own creation.
One of the comments there shows a lot of anger along the lines of the US spitting on Islam by the burial.
A Time photo collection on the White House Sit Room over the years: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2069435,00.html?xid=rss-photoessays&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fphotoessays+(TIME%3A+Top+Photoessays)
I’m not so sure. I look at these guys like they’re Jack Bauer clones. Duty is probably so ingrained into them that the urge to brag about even this would probably never occur. The only ones they’d want to impress anyway already know about it; no one else matters.
You can find bin Laden T-shirts for sale here, particularly in and around the Little Arabia section on lower Sukhumvit Road. The Thais sell them knowing he’s a terrorist, but they often simply do not understand how offensive he is to Westerners. Many West and South Asian tourists buy them, that’s all they know. I wonder if the shooter would like one as a souvenir.
The Thais seem to be confused about this whole burial-at-sea business. Several have asked me about it with quizzical looks on their faces. I’m not sure what their own navy does, although it probably hasn’t seen much battle action since that time in the 1950s when their ships started shooting at each other.
But the typical conversation the past couple of days has gone someting like: “What on earth is this burial at sea?” Me: “It’s a naval tradition. It’s usually done ceremoniously, but hopefully in this case they just did the two-man toss overboard.” Then they slink away slowly.
Is there still a live link to the Rachel Maddow video?
Are you posting to the right thread? There has not been any reference to Maddow here.
Read the thread first. It has been referenced.
Well, I did search all 3 pages for the word “maddow” and had no hits… Eh, maybe I typoed the name.
Huh. Chrome returned an empty page. Works OK with Opera, though.
Warning: Gruesome photos of the victims and shooting. Not Bin Laden, though.
From what I understand from the couple of SEALs I have met, and from one news report interviewing a former SEAL, his name will not be released, but everyone in the Special Ops community (Delta Force, SEALs, etc.) will know who it was. There are only about 200 members of SEAL Team 6 (Which of course, does not exist. ;)), only a small percentage of them went on the mission, and all of the ones assigned to perimeter guard or suppressing the ground floors know who went upstairs. Plus, they do second by second debriefs, and the missions are reviewed by everyone, so they can learn from what did and didn’t go right.
The guy will not be able to go into a bar and pick up a girl with that line, but he will be known to his peers and will probably never buy a beer again.
Why? It’s not like Bin Laden was holding off the entire SEAL team with his mad ninja skills. Why would they care who took the shot?
Seems like the whole team would be honored, but nothing special about the one guy who did what was probably the simplest part of the whole mission.
Sure, any of them could have done it, but who gets remembered and feted the most, the defensive linemen that stopped the last drive for all 4 downs, or the kicker that hit the 40 yard field goal for the 1 point win? In a close knit community of highly skilled, highly competitive people, the ones that get to finish the job get remembered. They will all know they could have done it, but that guy did, so he deserves recognition.
Our top story tonight… Osama Bin Laden still dead!
Anyone else expecting to hear this on the news every night?
Why not? We heard about Generalissimo Francisco Franco from a news-anchory person for at least a year.
(pst, he’s still dead.)
Ebert tweeted today:
Bin Laden was not armed when he was killed. Neither was anyone in the World Trade Center.
