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But the retired SEAL who was on the mission tells a different story. Even before the attack on the convoy and the alleged mutilation of the dead Afghan, Hyder had committed at least one killing with questionable justification. During the mission, the SEALs reported receiving small arms fire from exterior positions, though no one was hit. “If you have multiple incidents where the ground force commander pulls the trigger on a deployment, you have a total breakdown of operational tactics,” said one retired SEAL leader. Vic Hyder and more than two dozen operators from SEAL Team 6 boarded two Chinook helicopters en route to eastern Afghanistan hoping that within hours, they would kill or capture Osama bin Laden. There were no heroics, and, apart from al Kuwaiti’s shots, no firefight. War crimes of seal team 6 Thread starter f302pilot4; Start date Jan 28, 2017; Prev. One retired senior SEAL Team 6 leader was there who led the unit during the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. My word is my bond.” But after 9/11, another code emerged that made lying — especially to protect a teammate or the command from accountability — the more honorable course of action. He hasn’t returned since. “He’s just beginning to suffer for what he did,” said another SEAL Team 6 leader. One, led by an enlisted operator, took in the damage to one of the vehicles. Men, women, and a small girl, motionless and in the fetal position, appeared dead. When he first arrived at Dam Neck, operators in the unit who had served in Vietnam warned him that war crimes and battlefield atrocities hung like a cloud over the entire unit — even if only one SEAL had participated. Oh my gosh. “To understand the violence, you have to begin at Roberts Ridge,” said one former member of SEAL Team 6 who deployed several times to Afghanistan. Neil “Fifi” Roberts, a member of the SEAL recon team, fell 10 feet from the back of a Chinook and was stranded as the helicopter took fire from foreign al Qaeda fighters who were already on the snow-covered mountaintop. The unit’s name itself is part of an attempt to obscure U.S. capabilities. A few years later, after Hyder’s name was mentioned for another rotation in Red Team, some of Hyder’s former operators informed SEAL Team 6 leadership that he was not welcome back in the unit. SEAL Team 6 patches. On the afternoon of March 6, 2002, Lt. Cmdr. In the ensuing 17-hour battle with the al Qaeda fighters, six more Americans were killed and several were wounded. Vasely, who was wearing night-vision goggles, looked through a window and saw one of his operators, his back turned, squatting over the body of a dead militant. McRaven’s other directive required a more extensive post-operation review to document and justify combatant deaths. The SEALs were suspected of taking the money. Most would speak about the unit only on background or without attribution, because nearly every facet of SEAL Team 6 is classified. The pilot who had warned that one of the helicopters would stall was right. Should they seek revenge for Roberts? He even has his own line of clothing. Just eight months after taking over JSOC, after a series of complaints from the Afghan government over special operations night raids and civilian deaths, McRaven sought to pull Team 6 back from its overly aggressive stance. Directed by John Stockwell, Paulette Victor-Lifton.With Cam Gigandet, Jenny Gabrielle, Anson Mount, Freddy Rodríguez. O’Neill’s and Bissonnette’s careers mirrored one another. In O’Neill’s account, he did not see Red fire his shots at bin Laden because he was looking back down the stairs for reinforcements. “You’re moving the bar and buying into an emotional justification, ‘War is hell.’ If you’re not disciplining your force, you’re saying it’s OK.”. After the SEALs tried blowing the building’s gated front door, someone inside fired several rounds out a window. 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. Slabinski told MacPherson that Wolverine had been “really good payback.”, “Just a phenomenal, phenomenal day. Howard’s distribution of the hatchets worried several senior SEAL Team 6 members and some CIA paramilitary officers who worked with his squadron. For several years afterward, the leaders at the command limited Slabinski’s battlefield exposure — assigning him to Green Team as an instructor, for example — hoping the psychological wounds from Roberts Ridge would heal. Beyond the story of the alleged mutilation, the sight of the dead civilians killed during the opening airstrikes of Objective Bull, especially the women and children, left members of Red Team with deep psychological scars. 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 Laden’s courier. After the raid, the White House struggled to describe the exact circumstances of bin Laden’s death. The first case is clearly a war crime done by the helicopter crew, not the Seals themselves. I shot him, finished him. Other military and intelligence officials who have served with or investigated the unit were also interviewed. Go. Hyder said that he and a few other SEALs began to bury the casualties near a ravine by piling rocks over them. After the Chinook miniguns strafed the vehicles and stopped them, Slabinski and his team of snipers landed and moved to a rise several hundred yards away from one of the trucks and began firing sniper rounds at the militants. Was it acceptable, as Hyder had done with the wounded man whom he executed, to desecrate the dead? Some of the assaulters on the mission were also angry with Bissonnette and O’Neill because they neglected their responsibilities after bin Laden’s son was shot. As the legend of SEAL Team 6 grew, a rogue culture arose that operated outside of the Navy’s established mechanisms for command and investigation. After blowing open the iron gate blocking the main stairway, the lead assaulters, among them Bissonnette and O’Neill, followed the operator known as Red up the stairs. Thin and lanky, he was less physically imposing than many SEALs but was charismatic and dedicated. “That’s when you take away a hatchet,” the retired SEAL said. For Chapters 2-5, please click here. October 13, 2020 by admin 0 Comments. They didn’t know it, but Roberts was already dead, shot at close range in the head shortly after his helicopter departed the mountaintop. Like Vic Hyder, he struggled to command the respect of his men. But what happened during Objective Bull, the assault on the convoy in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, has never been previously reported. That year’s reunion, the first under Wyman Howard as commanding officer, was held at their new headquarters, a $100 million, state of the art testament to the stature of the command as the home of the “President’s Own,” the clandestine global force capable of striking anywhere, killing anyone, the tip of America’s military spear. “Our sense of what’s right and what’s wrong is warped. In that operation, Hyder led a team of Red operators on a nighttime mission to capture suspected al Qaeda militants in a compound. The request was approved and Slabinski was promoted. As the legend of SEAL Team 6 grew, a rogue culture arose that operated outside of the US navy’s established mechanisms for command and investigation. Bottom left: A Winkler hatchet similar to those issued to Red Squadron. “No one prepared our guys for the collateral damage and the second- and third-order effects of this war,” the former SEAL leader said. Other SEALs on the ground proceeded as though the survivors were combatants. One former SEAL Team 6 leader told me that he feared the practice would lead to members of the unit using the DNA samples as an excuse to mutilate and desecrate the dead. At that point, Hyder began assessing the damage and surveying the dead. The discussion covered battlefield ethics. Scott Moore, and his deputy, Capt. Howard was often heard asking his operators whether they’d gotten “blood on your hatchet” when they returned from a deployment. “There’s honor involved and Vic Hyder obviously traipsed all over that,” he said. It was really good therapy for everybody who was there.”. SEALs were given wide berth as long as they could explain why they made the decision to shoot an unarmed person. He was quietly removed from Team 6 and returned to a regular SEAL unit. Then O’Neill canoed bin Laden with a final shot. Otherwise we knew it’s going to get out of control. Conflicting accounts have emerged about how many other SEALs fired rounds into bin Laden’s lifeless body, though one former SEAL Team 6 leader who viewed the body in Jalalabad told me the body appeared to be intact aside from the chest wound and obliterated face. Two of the operators with Hyder reported afterward that the man was not a threat. He later told his teammates that it was possible one arm was twitching reflexively as he died, but otherwise he was effectively dead and not a threat. Unlike the SEALs, the man was not wearing night-vision goggles. By the time the two dozen Red Team operators departed for Objective Bull, tension had built up between Hyder, a commissioned officer, and the enlisted operators technically under his command. “He continued to move towards us,” Hyder said. The two Chinooks landed separately, one near each end of the convoy. One telling illustration of what had gone wrong with Blue Squadron occurred on December 17, 2007, during a raid in Helmand province. [There was] so much savagery. BOMBSHELL recordings prove they had Seal Team Six EXECUTED to cover up deep state crimes. “These were guys who were running a cell near our base,” the CIA officer said. “Iraq was a different kind of war — nothing we’d ever seen,” said the now-retired Team 6 leader. The SEALs’ successes throughout 2002 resulted in the Joint Special Operations Command choosing the unit to lead the hunt for al Qaeda, as well as the invasion of Baghdad in March 2003. He’d been told that Blue Squadron had collected ears and that mutilations had become common. Beyond the dehumanising manner in which the al Qaeda fighters had treated his corpse, Roberts’s death pierced the SEALs’ self-perception of invincibility. Bottom: Winkler hatchet from Bissonnette’s personal collection. Scott Moore, right, then commander of SEAL Team 6. He also claimed that bin Laden had been standing when he fired and that a weapon was visible nearby. Bottom right: Candid photo of U.S. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts. The pilot noted that the two mock-up compounds had chain link fences around the buildings, allowing the air to disperse, while the real compound had thick concrete walls. Both should have remained on the second floor. Most of the operators held a meeting to discuss what had happened on the mission. We shoot ’em. Inside the vehicle were one or two rifles, as is customary in Afghanistan, but none of the men wore military clothing or had any extra ammunition. “He was partially alive, faced down, his back to me, and he rolled over. Hyder was new to SEAL Team 6, but as the ranking officer on the ground during that operation, he was technically in charge. Overall, it had become clear that Slabinski’s run as a leader on the battlefield caused Blue Squadron to come “off the rails,” according to a former SEAL Team 6 leader. 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 emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command’s leadership. Although the stoppage was not limited to the SEALs, his former unit pushed back against a new set of operational guidelines. The morning after Objective Bull, Red Team gathered at Bagram Air Base. It was disappointing. Two hours passed before the SEALs in the damaged helicopter were able to return. Both teams exited the helicopters to find a grim scene. Illustration: Attila Futaki for The Intercept. Several months after the bin Laden raid, in October 2011, SEAL Team 6 held its annual “stump muster,” a reunion of current command members and their families, as well as past leaders and senior operators. At least two of Bissonnette’s teammates who were with him when al Kuwaiti was killed were angry about the deception — taking credit for a teammate’s actions on a mission was unprecedented and dishonorable — but did not contradict him in the presence of a military lawyer. Senior members of SEAL Team 6 felt the pattern of brutality was not only illegal but rose to the level of war crimes. the crimes of seal team 6 January 11, 2017 3:29 AM Subscribe Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of … Blue Squadron was led at that time by Cmdr. Chapter 1 reprinted with permission from The Intercept. Several of Bissonnette’s teammates later informed their superiors that he had lied about his actions. The two weapons found on the third floor were not discovered until the rooms were searched. 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. The operation’s team leader believed that a suicide vest had been detonated by one of the captors, and two Silver Squadron operators initially withheld the fact that a grenade had been thrown. They were mad because he spoke to the New York Times and lied.”. SEAL Team Six started with 75 shooters. The novel, which glorifies Nazi military practices, describes counterinsurgency tactics such as mass slaughter and desecration and other forms of wanton violence as a means of waging psychological warfare against the “savage” Vietnamese. cg99. Courtesy: The Intercept. Even before the attack on the convoy and the alleged mutilation of the dead Afghan, Hyder had committed at least one killing with questionable justification. Howard, who declined to answer questions from The Intercept, rallied his SEALs and others before missions and deployments by telling them to “bloody the hatchet.” One SEAL I spoke with said that Howard’s words were meant to be inspirational, like those of a coach, and were not an order to use the hatchets to commit war crimes. “We could’ve used the intel.” Outside the compound, the SEALs were quick to show the photos to others on the assault team. His account credits Red with the shot that felled bin Laden and holds that he and a third SEAL — presumably O’Neill — fired several rounds into bin Laden as he was lying on the floor. Late that year, the CIA joined operators from Gold Squadron for an operation near Jalalabad. Moore told his deputy, Szymanski, who was in Afghanistan, to sort things out. Afterward, Kuwaiti’s wife confirmed that bin Laden could be found on the third floor of the main building, just as the team had been briefed. That’s all it takes to support the journalism you rely on. Neil “Fifi” Roberts, a member of the SEAL recon team, fell 10 feet from the back of a Chinook and was stranded as the helicopter took fire from foreign al Qaeda fighters who were already on the snow-covered mountaintop. The SEALs with Hyder came out and separated into two groups. Most would speak about the unit only on background or without attribution, because nearly every facet of SEAL Team 6 is classified. O’Neill was chosen as a team leader for a group providing external security but ultimately traded that leadership role for a junior spot on the team he and Bissonnette believed would get the first shot at bin Laden. Seal Team 6 killed Osama’s double, based on one of the wives who screamed that and that is why they didn’t save the body, they threw the parts over the mountains, and John Brennan told everyone to lie,” Parrot said. My word is my bond.” But after 9/11, another code emerged that made lying — especially to protect a teammate or the command from accountability — the more honorable course of action. Red could see bin Laden bleeding out from his chest wound but he still had not entered the bedroom. McRaven’s new orders set off a struggle between the JSOC commander and SEAL Team 6’s enlisted ranks that played out in a series of high-profile hostage rescues ordered by President Obama. Six days after Objective Bull, the Pentagon announced at a press conference that an airstrike had killed 14 people, who a spokesperson said were “somehow affiliated” with al Qaeda. By the time Robert O’Neill entered Osama bin Laden’s bedroom in the Abbottabad compound on May 2, 2011, the al Qaeda leader was bleeding out on the floor, possibly already dead, after being shot in the chest and leg by the lead assaulter on the raid. The former teammates both hit the press circuit, each telling reporters off the record that the other was a liar. Bissonnette’s bestselling book, “No Easy Day,” was published in September 2012, four months after he retired and less than two weeks after O’Neill got out of the Navy. Peter Vasely, a Naval Academy graduate who had not gone through the advanced assault training of Green Team that the other members of SEAL Team 6 had endured. Howard’s critics argue that the hatchets were emblems of the rogue, at times criminal, conduct on the battlefield the commander was encouraging. During the mission, the SEALs reported receiving small arms fire from exterior positions, though no one was hit. On the second floor of the SEAL Team 6 headquarters in the Dam Neck naval annex, a computer, known as the “ops computer,” stores the classified data on every mission the unit has completed for the past decade. “You can’t win an investigation on us,” one former SEAL Team 6 leader told me. “And then we had to address a very important question, how do you get the guys’ heads straight to mitigate any retaliation for Fifi? 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 — you’d have sympathy for me. After the operation, $30,000 in cash, which the pirates had stashed in a lifeboat, went missing. By the time the two dozen Red Team operators departed for Objective Bull, tension had built up between Hyder, a commissioned officer, and the enlisted operators technically under his command. The distinction was crucial. With few exceptions, a darker, more troubling story has been suppressed and ignored — a story replete with tactical brilliance on battlefields around the world coupled with a pattern of silence and deceit when “downrange” actions lead to episodes of criminal brutality. 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. Joining is simple and doesn’t need to cost a lot: You can become a sustaining member for as little as $3 or $5 a month. Hyder and an enlisted operator named Monty Heath had gone in a different direction and saw a survivor flee the bombed vehicle toward a nearby berm. The database contains photographs of persons killed by SEAL operators during their missions and other mission documentation. Later that night, after Blue Squadron’s assaulters had successfully carried out the raid, killing three or four armed men and recovering weapons and explosives, Vasely and Slabinski conducted a walk-through of the compound. Almost immediately, the issue that received the most scrutiny was the December 2007 attempted beheading. But what happened during Objective Bull, the assault on the convoy in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, has never been previously reported. By 2007, the command’s leadership was aware that some Blue Squadron operators were using specialized knives to conduct “skinnings.” Using the excuse of collecting DNA, which required a small piece of skin containing hair follicles, operators were taking large strips of skin from dead enemy fighters. As the lead assaulter, it was Red’s job to make the most important tactical judgments because he largely blocked the view of the SEALs behind him. At that point, the second inquiry was commissioned by the SEAL Team 6 commanding officer, Pete Van Hooser. Previously, the command had required only a frontal shot and a profile of each dead militant. “That’s what’s wrong with my community,” the former SEAL Team 6 leader told me. Ten officers and master chiefs voted unanimously against allowing Slabinski to return to the command. While on active duty, he’d formed a consulting company with four other SEALs and secured a contract with one of the command’s biggest equipment suppliers. BOMBSHELL recordings prove they had Seal Team Six EXECUTED to cover up deep state crimes. That was not how the SEALs wanted the mission to develop. Once inside, the SEALs proceeded slowly and methodically. Bottom: Britt Slabinski, left, and Capt. The SEALs had no authority over the helicopter gunners. Two different SEALs, Robert O’Neill and Matthew Bissonnette, have publicly taken credit for killing bin Laden. Clockwise from top left: Blue Squadron, known as the Pirates; Gold Squadron, known as the Crusaders or Knights; Red Squadron, known as the Redmen; and Silver Squadron. At that point, Hyder began assessing the damage and surveying the dead. Senior leaders at the command knew about the misconduct and did little to eradicate it. “It was a mess.”. The Crimes of SEAL Team 6. The foreign fighters who suffered these V-shaped wounds were either killed in battle and later shot at close range or finished off with a security round while dying. “You ask me to go living with the pigs, but I can’t go live with pigs and then not get dirty.”, SEAL Team 6 patches. War is an adrenaline rush. “You ask me to go living with the pigs, but I can’t go live with pigs and then not get dirty.”. 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. Richard Marcinko hoped that the number six would lead the Soviet military to inflate its assessment of the Navy’s SEALs. “Why would I do that?” he asked. Beyond the dehumanizing manner in which the al Qaeda fighters had treated his corpse, Roberts’s death pierced the SEALs’ self-perception of invincibility. After 90 minutes, as the helicopters were nearing the rendezvous point, one of the SEALs alerted Hyder that an old man who had been lying in a ditch nearby was walking toward the SEALs’ position. 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 Chinook’s gunners, who had unloaded after the free fire zone had been declared. The hatchets, paid for by private donations Howard solicited, were custom-made by Daniel Winkler, a highly regarded knife maker in North Carolina who designed several of the period tomahawks and knives used in the movie “The Last of the Mohicans.” Winkler sells similar hatchets for $600 each. The situation was not particularly unusual. “Guys are going out every night killing everything. The operator accused of the attempted beheading has experienced difficulties as a result of his service. He took Roberts’s death hard. After leaving the compound and returning to their base in Kandahar province, Vasely reported to Moore, his superior officer, that he believed he had witnessed a war crime, a mutilation. Eventually, two other elements of a quick reaction force – one of which included Hyder – landed at the top of Takur Ghar. 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 decade’s worth of bloody “sport” by elements of SEAL Team 6 who considered themselves craftsmen of killing. The Crimes of SEAL Team Six is a sad commentary on what we have become after 15 years of war. Today, he is a paid on-air commentator for Fox News and is reportedly eyeing a run for the Senate in his native Montana. No one was upset that he ordered a beheading or all the men shot even if they were unarmed. The vehicles were headed east toward the Pakistani border, as if they were trying to escape. “It’s 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. SEAL Team 6 members are alleged to have acted improperly in the rescue of Capt. Yet immediately after the mission, O’Neill described shooting bin Laden while he was on the floor. 1; 2; First Prev 2 of 2 Go to page. Inside a heated tent, as many as 40 SEAL Team 6 operators asked themselves how they wanted to treat their fallen enemies. Canoeing was just one of several acts of mutilation frequently carried out by SEALs. “They have an internal process that they think is sufficient and they are not inclined to cooperate unless they absolutely have to.” Raser, who conducted investigations into both regular SEAL units and SEAL Team 6, said that in her experience, SEALs simply didn’t report wrongdoing by their teammates. Top left: CIA paramilitary officer and former SEAL Team 6 member Richard Smethers. 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