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SEAL Team 6 became a household name for their role in killing
Osama bin Laden. On May 1, 2011, the country rightly celebrated the death of
bin Laden. The
Obama administration, however, wanted to do more. It sought to claim full credit for the assassination, deciding to spike the football. On May 3, at an event in Washington,
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. did the unthinkable: He publicly revealed the identity of the special-operations unit responsible...SEAL members immediately realized they were going to be hunted by
al Qaeda sympathizers.
Karen Vaughn, the mother of slain
SEALAaron Vaughn, says that within hours after
Mr. Biden’s comments, her son called to tell her to wipe away every piece of information regarding the family on social media,
Facebook and
Twitter. “I never heard
Aaron that afraid in his life,”
Mrs. Vaughn said in an interview. “He told me: ‘Mom, we’re picking up chatter. We’re not safe. You’re not safe. Delete everything.’”...
Their reward, however, for killing the world’s foremost terrorist mastermind was to be outed by their own government.
Yet, the betrayal did not stop there. On Aug. 6, 2011, a Chinook helicopter carrying 30 U.S. service members — including 15
SEAL Team 6 members — was shot down in
Afghanistan. Everyone on board was killed...
Talibanfighters were waiting on three sides for the aircraft as it approached. The Chinook was a sitting duck as it hovered in the sky. The evidence is overwhelming and disturbing:
SEAL Team 6 members were ambushed.
... They (parents) have numerous troubling questions. Why was the Chinook not provided a military escort plane, as is standard military procedure when a special-operations unit conducts a raid? Why were the SEALs placed on an outdated aircraft built in the 1960s? Why were they not flying in a special-operations aircraft that is designed to take enemy fire and go deep behind enemy lines? Why were they ordered not to return fire against the tower from where insurgents were firing? Did the strict rules of engagement cause the deaths of our service members?
The most troubling question of all is, why did seven of the eight Afghans on that aircraft board at the last minute? They were not on the flight manifest, which was a gross violation of military procedure. The original Afghans scheduled to be on that Chinook were replaced just prior to the mission. In other words, the SEALs were accompanied by strangers....
...a DVD from the U.S. military that recorded the funeral services in
Afghanistan for her dead son, as well as the other slain SEALs. To the parents’ horror, a
Muslim cleric presided over the services. In Arabic, he damned the “infidel” SEALs, condemning their souls “to hell.”
...
Mr. Biden is no bumbling fool. Rather, his deliberate, reckless disclosure placed
SEAL Team 6 in mortal jeopardy. He and his boss, President Obama, exploited them in order to boost their re-election chances. The SEALs, however, paid the ultimate price. Mr. Obama and
Mr. Biden have American blood on their hands....
Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a radio commentator on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.
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