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WASHINGTON: The American commandos who killed Osama bin Laden were prepared to surrender if surrounded by Pakistani troops, says the man who killed the al Qaeda leader.

The Obama administration also saw this as a real possibility and was ready to send Vice President Joe Biden to negotiate their release, the shooter adds.

In an interview to the Esquire magazine, the shooter says he feels betrayed by the US government as he has “no pension, no health care and protection”. The interview will be published in the magazine’s March issue.

The shooter, whose name was not disclosed, was a member of the US Navy SEAL Team 6, which raided Bin Laden’s compound on May 1, 2011, and killed the world’s most wanted man. He retired in September, is unemployed since then and continues to worry how he is going to provide for his family.

While planning their raid on Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, the Team 6 also discussed what would happen if they were surrounded by Pakistani troops.

“We would surrender. The original plan was to have Vice President Biden fly to Islamabad and negotiate our release with Pakistan’s president,” says the shooter.

“This is hearsay, but I understand President Obama said, ‘Hell no. My guys are not surrendering. What do we need to rain hell on the Pakistani military?’ ”

The commandos were also told that “we’d be scrambling jets on the border” to back up the raiding party.

“That was the one time in my life I was thinking, I am … voting for this guy (President Obama). I had a picture of him lying in bed at night,” says the shooter.

The `shooter’, as he is referred to in the interview as well, retired after 16 years, four short of the required service length for qualifying for a pension. He is also having trouble finding work because he cannot list his true credentials.

The Esquire interview goes into detail about the night the `shooter’ killed Bin Laden, as well as his life before and after military service.

Since Abbottabad, the shooter and his family have feared a retaliatory attack by terrorists.

He has trained his children to hide in their bathtub at the first sign of a problem as the safest, most fortified place in their house. His wife also knows how to use a shotgun and keeps a knife on the dresser should she need a backup. The family also keeps bags of clothes, food, and other provisions for two weeks in hiding.

“Personally, I feel more threatened by a potential retaliatory terror attack on our community than I did eight years ago,” when her husband joined Team 6, says his wife.

When the White House identified SEAL Team 6 as those responsible, camera crews swarmed into their Virginia Beach neighbourhood, taking shots of the SEALs’ homes.

After Bin Laden’s face appeared on their TV in the days after the killing, the shooter cautioned his older child not to mention the al Qaeda leader’s name ever again to anybody.

The wife could not take the pressure so they officially separated, although she still lives in the same house as she cannot afford to rent or buy another.

The Esquire points out that this is “a common occurrence in SEAL Team 6”.

“We’re actually looking into changing my name, changing the kids’ names, taking my husband’s name off the house, paying off our cars. Essentially deleting him from our lives, but for safety reasons. We still love each other,” the wife tells the magazine.

When the family asked about any kind of government protection should the shooter’s name come out, they were advised that they could go into a witness-protection-like programme.

The SEAL command told the shooter `they could get me a job driving a beer truck in Milwaukee” under an assumed identity. Like Mafia snitches, they would not be able to contact their families or friends. “We’d lose everything.”

The shooter recalls that when the Team 6 arrived in Afghanistan, they were asked to write letters to their families which would be delivered to them only if they were killed.

“The tears are hitting the page, because we all knew that none of us were coming back alive. It was either death or a Pakistani prison, where we’d be raped for the rest of our lives,” says the shooter while describing how he felt.

US SEAL team was to surrender if surrounded by Pak troops | Newspaper | DAWN.COM
 
That was the order given to them by Vice President Joe Biden, who thought it would be best if the US Special forces surrender if Pakistani military surrounded them, and then US VP Biden would fly out to Islamabad hoping to negotiate a release of the Special Forces.

How can this be a SEAL team member? "It's either death or being raped by Pakistanis"... The hell? Any soldier worth his rifle knows that it's either victory or death, never surrender.
What kind of a man would choose life of being raped in prison over an honorable death for the service of their country?

This guy definitely sounds wrong.

Soldiers have to follow orders, and according to news sources VP Biden had given the order Special Forces surrender to Pakistani military if surrounded and then US would hope to get their release.
 
On Topic> the SEALS if surrounded by PA, would hardly have any other option.

So the plan of SEALS surrendering to PA if surrounded and then VP resorting to negotiation was logical, if the OP is correct.

BTW there is another news which shows Obama was ready to rain hell on Pakistan to save SEALS.

We should wait for more sources.
 
DAWN spun the headlines :rofl:

The news is more about Obama saying that the SEALs wont surrender and the americans would rain hell on Pakistani military if they interfered.. Probably the same was conveyed to Pakistan as well.. That's why for hours while this operation was on, there was no response from PA or PAF
 
That was the order given to them by Vice President Joe Biden, who thought it would be best if the US Special forces surrender if Pakistani military surrounded them, and then US VP Biden would fly out to Islamabad hoping to negotiate a release of the Special Forces.



Soldiers have to follow orders, and according to news sources VP Biden had given the order Special Forces surrender to Pakistani military if surrounded and then US would hope to get their release.


Devgru take no orders from VP Biden. It would have to be orders issued by President Obama. Btw, if the story of Obama wanting to rain hell isn't true, then the story of Biden & Seals surrendering is probably not either. It is after all, the same person saying both.

Seals have built a reputation of not surrendering/being taken alive, I doubt very much that any surrender plan would have received anything more than passing consideration.
 
I personally think that PA personal would have given safe passage if they found SEAL in there way :P

SEAL are among top 5 commandos in world, A normal army can't compete with them.
 
I understand President Obama said, ‘Hell no. My guys are not surrendering. What do we need to rain hell on the Pakistani military?’ ”


total BULL****!!! The SEALs would have surrendered and then let the negotiators get them released!

I personally think that PA personal would have given safe passage if they found SEAL in there way :P

SEAL are among top 5 commandos in world, A normal army can't compete with them.

6 men against an ARMY! please this is not SUNNY DEOL MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get realistic!
 
This is all propoganda man. I have a feeling the top commanders in Pakistan army were told by Americans that something major was gonna happen in Pakistan in the next comming days and that not to interfere with hit but at the same time Americans probably didnt mention that we are going to get OBL so someone might leak that info!
 
I understand President Obama said, ‘Hell no. My guys are not surrendering. What do we need to rain hell on the Pakistani military?’ ”


total BULL****!!! The SEALs would have surrendered and then let the negotiators get them released!



6 men against an ARMY! please this is not SUNNY DEOL MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! get realistic!

did you expect a full battalion to kill a terrorist in hiding on another country ?

they knew what and how many they are up against and they did it successfully. Not even a single person come to know about it until the news came out , including you radar operator.Now live with it.
 
They knew best bet is to surrender... as Pakistani soldiers are truly professionals not like those beating women in Kashmir and overrunning kids with tanks in Palestine.
they came by helo's violating your air space conducted air raid for 40 min. in the town of military academy and near to your capital and went back unchallenged... yo man pakistani defence forces are the best and most professional...
 
did you expect a full battalion to kill a terrorist in hiding on another country ?

they knew what and how many they are up against and they did it successfully. Not even a single person come to know about it until the news came out , including you radar operator.Now live with it.

you are talking nonsense, so shut it.

no big fuss, realistic option was to surrender and later go back to homeland, this is Pakistan everything can be done.
 
you are talking nonsense, so shut it.

no big fuss, realistic option was to surrender and later go back to homeland, this is Pakistan everything can be done.

Ya! truth hurts your pride.
they were Americans and if they wouldn't like to surrender, simply they wouldn't surrender. they had reinforcement on call, so they could play it what ever way they wanted, surrender or resistance, both works perfectly for them.
 
Oh what about the army raping millions of women in BD in 1971?

Between On Topic: The US air force would had rained missiles after missiles on Pakistani Army! Thank got for Pakistani Army it did not happened!

Read the whole news before commenting on just reading the title!

lol millions, may as well be billions and trillions
 
Oh what about the army raping millions of women in BD in 1971?

Between On Topic: The US air force would had rained missiles after missiles on Pakistani Army! Thank got for Pakistani Army it did not happened!

Read the whole news before commenting on just reading the title!



After reading your comment i can understand why you have got 392 thanks out of 1,024 posts.... American Special forces along with NATO forces sitting with in 200 km range of Pakistan... and they will start missile strike over Pakistan and Pakistan in response sitting duck ahaan? lolzzzz
 
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