And it takes the team, it takes individuals to pull you back. By then, there was no question about whether the attempted beheading had occurred; the question was why. Two different SEALs, Robert ONeill and Matthew Bissonnette, have publicly taken credit for killing bin Laden. The power of the Native American mascot, he said, was not to be dismissed. ONeill, by contrast, was not considered as clever as his teammate, but he was a deadly sniper and had a successful tour as a team leader in Red Squadron. Red came to a stop and fired two shots with his suppressed rifle. The group gave him a five-star rating, its most ignoble designation. In his interview with the Times, Slabinski asserted that it was he who had witnessed the operator slashing at the dead fighters throat, saying, It appeared he was mutilating a body. Slabinski portrayed himself as trying to police his men and said that he gave them a very stern speech. He claimed to the Times that he told his men, If any of you feel a need to do any retribution, you should call me. Slabinski says nothing in the Times story about Vasely ordering him to investigate the scene or the remark about a head on a platter. 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. Bottom: McRaven, left, and Capt. It was a mess.. The sixth season of SEAL Team has been ordered on February 1, 2022, then has premiered on September 18 and concluded on November 20, 2022. For many on the raid, including those who had been present in bin Ladens bedroom with ONeill, it was the first time theyd heard anyone in the command say the terrorist leader was standing, posing a threat of any kind. War is an adrenaline rush. In an interview, Hyder said the man had approached his position with his arms tucked into his armpits and did not heed warnings from other SEALs to stop. During the mission, the SEALs reported receiving small arms fire from exterior positions, though no one was hit. By the time Robert ONeill entered Osama bin Ladens 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. They realized the man had been trying to protect the women and children. Late that year, the CIA joined operators from Gold Squadron for an operation near Jalalabad. The discussion covered battlefield ethics. I was going around to the different KIAs with my camera to take photos, Hyder told me in an interview, using the military term for enemies killed in action. These were family weapons, said the retired SEAL. He even has his own line of clothing. Bissonnettes helicopter crashed into bin Ladens side yard. Former US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, identified in news accounts as the member of SEAL Team Six who killed Osama bin Laden. We needed that there was not a better group of people to go and do that. During the debrief, Red was identified as having hit bin Laden with a fatal shot, and ONeill was credited with putting security rounds into him after bin Laden had already gone down. Oh my gosh. After I shot this dude in the head, there was a guy who had his feet, just his feet, sticking out of some little rut or something over here. MostSEALs did not commit atrocities, the sources said, but the problem was persistent and recurrent, like a stubborn virus. [There was] so much savagery. After Robertss death, Slabinksi wanted revenge. By the time we moved over to Iraq, we were doing missions as much as five nights a week. It was like a game. Local residents and media on May 5, 2011, outside the compoundwhere al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Fifi was mutilated, said a retired noncommissioned SEAL leader who was involved in internal discussions about how to prevent SEAL Team 6 from seeking revenge. Last year, the command became concerned about his psychological condition, determining that he was medically unfit to deploy again. By late 2007, Slabinski was deployed to Afghanistan as the senior noncommissioned officer in Blue Squadron. It was then that both Bissonnette and ONeill hung back on the stairway. But we all see what we want to see. Slabinski and the Blue Squadron SEALs deployed to Afghanistan were frustrated, and that book gave them the answers they wanted to see: Terrorize the Taliban and theyd surrender. If a guy cuts off another guys head and nothing happens, that becomes the standard, said oneof the former SEAL Team 6 leaders. They shot an unarmed dude. He then stood above the now indisputably dead man and canoed him, firing a round into his forehead and splitting open the top of his skull, exposing his brain. The two leading officers at the command, Moore and Szymanski, were informed that small groups in each of the three squadrons were mutilating and desecrating combatants in both Iraq and Afghanistan. It was just good therapy. Our sense of whats right and whats wrong is warped. We said, Let us set down and take a look at the convoy to determine if its al Qaeda. Instead, they dropped several bombs.. The units name itself is part of an attempt to obscure U.S. capabilities. Howard was often heard asking his operators whether theyd gotten blood on your hatchet when they returned from a deployment. 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 didnt report wrongdoing by their teammates. May 24, 2018. In that operation, Hyder led a team of Red operators on a nighttime mission to capture suspected al Qaeda militants in a compound. Our job is to ensure that we conduct ourselves in a way befitting the American people and the American flag. 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. Since the 1980s, when Red Team was first created, there were many operators in the unit who had experienced a metamorphosis of identity and persona into Native American warriors. The unit conducted a captains mast on at least seven SEALs for revealing sensitive information during a series of promotional videos for the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The reprimand ended the careers of two veteran SEAL Team 6 noncommissioned officers. As he did so, he approached the manHeath had shot. There's a strong bias in the Teams where the best guys get out after one or two Platoons and the turds stick around. While he was there, he confronted the Blue Squadron troop and the operator whod tried to behead the Taliban fighter. Well, they did. 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. It was given as an honor, one more step to strive for, another sign that youre doing a good job.. The planning was so meticulous, one retired SEAL Team 6 leader told me, that a helicopter pilot warned mission planners that one of the two stealth Black Hawks they were to use would likely experience a vortex ring state, which means air disturbed by the rotors would prevent the helicopter from getting the lift necessary to continue hovering. Killing unarmed civilians whether on purpose or by accident has a profoundly harmful effect on the human soul. After participating in May 2011's Operation Neptune Spear with SEAL Team Six, O'Neill was the subject of controversy for claiming to be the sole individual to kill Osama bin Laden . The SEALs were now going after low-level Taliban financiers and shadow governors. Evidence was presented that Slabinski gave an order to shoot all the men they encountered during another raid, whether or not they were armed. On its ``Wall of Shame,' CyberSEALs says Nolan claimed to be a member of Seal teams 2 and 6. So many dead bodies, so many, everywhere, and so the potential opportunities for mutilations were great.. In audio of an unpublished interview with the late MalcolmMacPherson, author of a 2005 book about Roberts Ridge, Slabinski describes in great detail an operation that took place about a week after Objective Bull. Later, a JSOC officer watching drone footage of the operation noticed one of the SEALs throw an object that landed and exploded near where Norgroves body was found. Photos: U.S. Navy; U.S. Air Photo by Force Technical Sgt. The FBI and NCIS investigated two members of Red Squadron and conducted polygraphs, but the money was never recovered and neither of the SEALs wascharged. No issues with that. Illustration: Attila Futaki for The Intercept. Men, women, and a small girl, motionless and in the fetal position, appeared dead. On my 2005 deployment in Afghanistan, we only went on a handful of ops, said a retired SEAL who served under Howard. (The Intercept is withholding the name of the operator, who believed he was following an order. ONeill and two or three more assaulters moved past Red intothe bedroom as bin Laden lay on the ground. The defense contractor, Atlantic Diving Supply, or ADS, has military supply and equipment contracts with SEAL Team 6, according to several former SEAL Team 6 operators, as well as other. In the room with four of the suspected insurgents, four SEALs counted down and canoed each sleeping man with a shot to the forehead. A fierce firefight erupted between the four SEALs and a much larger enemy force of more than 50 anti-coalition insurgents. Instead of helping search and secure the second floor, both headed to the third floor, hoping to get a chance for the historic kill. Shortly after that operation, Slabinski returned to the SEAL Team 6 base at Dam Neck. 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 Chinooks gunners, who had unloaded after the free fire zone had been declared. Hes just beginning to suffer for what he did, said anotherSEAL Team 6 leader. Its a great way to explain it away, but they have the hatchets to flaunt the law. According to his own description, the first two rounds hit bin Ladens forehead. 36 39 Sponsored by The Penny Hoarder The operation commanded high-level interest because Norgrove, though in Afghanistan as an aid worker for DAI, an American NGO, secretly worked with Britains MI-6, according to four U.S. military and intelligence sources. Over the years, he had worried about battlefield discipline and retaliation after Neil Roberts had been nearly beheaded, and he had feared his men would seek retribution in Iraq during the height of the violence there. Then ONeill canoed bin Laden with a final shot. Previously, the command had required only a frontal shot and a profile of each dead militant. Even if it was true, I dont know why he would say that. Hyder said he was not aware of the Bagram meeting held by the enlisted operators about him or the accusations. 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. While on active duty, hed formed a consulting company with four other SEALs and secured a contract with one of the commands biggest equipment suppliers. Simply claiming to be a current or former member of the military is not illegal. The SEAL mission was compromised when the local nationals spotted the team, who presumably reported its presence and location to the Taliban. Several of us confronted the officers, said one former noncommissioned officer who tried to stop the criminal behavior. According to multiple members of SEAL Team 6, the fight with the CIA was one of the few instances in which the commands battlefield misconduct was in danger of being exposed. During the first deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, it was common practice to take fingers, scalp, or skin from slain enemy combatants for identification purposes. One former SEAL Team 6 leader who was involved in the raid told me he was never too concerned about the discrepancies between ONeills and Bissonnettes claims. Both operators were accused of breaking with standard operating procedure to get themselves in position to be among the first to see or kill bin Laden. I shot him about 20 times in the legs, and every time youd kick him, er, shoot him, he would kick up, you could see his body twitching and all that. There were no heroics, and, apart from al Kuwaitis shots, no firefight. Unlike the hundreds of other assaults SEAL Team 6 had carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which the operators would plan and carry out a raid within a matter of hours, this time they had weeks to prepare. Early in the war, the SEALs mission was to hunt down al Qaedas senior leaders, who had largely vanished into Pakistan, but now Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the leader of JSOC, extended the mission to target the Taliban, whoalong with al Qaeda weremoving back and forth across the Pakistani border with impunity. Historically, SEAL Team 6 is known as a unit where officers rent their lockers, because they typically serve about three years before rotating out, whereas the enlisted operators remain for much of their careers, often for a decade or more. 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 emergedsoon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the commands leadership. When SEAL Team 6 first deployed to Afghanistan in January 2002, the commandhad three assault teams, Red, Blue, and Gold, each with a mascot. The list also includes Britt Slabinski, who was blacklisted in 2015 following the New York Times article that quoted him denying hed ever ordered his men to kill unarmed Afghan targets. Bissonnette's name is reportedly inscribed on a "rock of shame" outside SEAL Team 6 headquarters, alongside others who are officially "persona non grata" at that elite unit. They soon discovered he had violated a series of Navy regulations. His superiors believed he had become unglued over the 2007 deployment. His actions, if proven in a court of law, should be punished accordingly. He was told that the photographs were part of SEAL Team 6s greatest hits of terrorists killed since 9/11. They were mad because he spoke to the New York Times and lied.. Iraq was a target rich environment, and Wyman allowed us to be more aggressive. According to several former SEAL Team 6 leaders, it was JSOC commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal who ordered the increased operational tempo and pushed SEAL Team 6, including Howard, to conduct more frequent raids to help wipe out the insurgency in both Iraq and Afghanistan. His account credits Red with the shot that felled bin Laden and holds that he and a third SEAL presumably ONeill fired several rounds into bin Laden as he was lying on the floor. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. War crimes case expands to SEAL Team 6. Thats when you take away a hatchet, the retired SEAL said. Scott Moore, right, then commander of SEAL Team 6. Id almost wish theyd beaten him to death. After a joint British-American investigation into the operation identified the failures and recommended that only the SEAL who threw the grenade be punished, McRaven personally traveled to Dam Neck and determined that all three SEALs involved in the cover-up should be thrown out of SEAL Team 6. What youre saying is you have no faith in the commander, he said. They were both talented and competitive, and they were determined to profit from their experiences as SEALs. Created in 1980 and based at the Dam Neck Annex of Naval Air Station Oceana near Virginia Beach, the command prided itself on its culture of nonconformity with the larger military. They had bonded over Robertss death. 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. Seal team 6 rock of shame. As the legend of SEAL Team 6 grew, a rogue culture arose that operated outside of the Navys established mechanisms for command and investigation. Made up of no more than 200 SEAL operators when the Afghan war began, SEAL Team 6 was the lesser known of the U.S. militarys elite special mission units. When Heath, who witnessed Hyders actions, reported them to his team leader in the presence of other members of the team, several of the guys turned and walked away, said the retired SEAL. In ONeills account, he did not see Red fire his shots at bin Laden because he was looking back down the stairs for reinforcements. Bissonnette was much farther back down the stairwell. This directive had one primary purpose: to protect U.S. forces from accusations of unjustified killings by Afghan government officials. After the operation, $30,000 in cash, which the pirates had stashed in a lifeboat, went missing. O'Neill (born 10 April 1976) is a former United States Navy SEAL (1996-2012 . No one prepared our guys for the collateral damage and the second- and third-order effects of this war, the former SEAL leader said. In the world of SEAL Team 6, where operators never face criminal charges despite allegations of war crimes, unjustified killings, and corruption the admirals mast was a serious rebuke. Slabinski retired from the military in 2014 after 25 years in the Navy. He hasnt returned since. Others used them to break doorknobs on raids or kill militants in hand-to-hand combat. A former SEAL filed an appeal Tuesday, Dec. 21, that paints military leaders and their attorneys as corrupt martinets and levels allegations of rampant legal and sexual shenanigans by senior operators inside the ultrasecret Development Group, better known as "SEAL Team 6." Senior leaders at the command knew about the misconduct and did little to eradicate it. The retired SEAL, who spent the better part of two decades at the command, said he never asked Hyder why he mutilated the corpse. Photos: Facebook; airsoft-army.com; www.lightfigher.net; Facebook. Sitting with old friends, the retired SEAL was handed a ring-bound portfolio. Morale at Red Squadron fell apart shortly after the team returned to Virginia Beach from Afghanistan. . The men who make it through the grueling training represent roughly the top 10 percent of all SEALs. Thin and lanky, he was less physically imposing than many SEALs but was charismatic and dedicated. One former teammate who served with Slabinski described his effort that day outnumbered and with inferior fire support, taking incoming fire from the moment the helicopter landed as one of the most heroic things Ive ever seen. On the day when SEAL Team 6 lost its first operator in the post-9/11 era, Slabinski became a unit legend. Top left: Red Squadron tattoo. Not provide them., During one Iraq deployment, Howard returned from a raid to an operations center with blood on his hatchet and his uniform. Other military and intelligence officials who have served with or investigated the unit were also interviewed. Inside, they found six militants, four in one room, all sleeping with weapons near their beds. The hatchet was too intimate, too closely aligned with a tomahawk, to have been a good idea. The former SEAL, who himself had served in Red during his career, said that by giving operators the weapon of their battlefield persona, Howard sent an unmistakable message to his men: Use it. What we didnt do was turn him in. According to two senior SEAL Team 6 sources, however, the leadership dynamic in Blue Squadron was a failure. Eventually, two other elements of a quick reaction force one of which included Hyder landed at the top of Takur Ghar. The operator accused of the attempted beheading has experienced difficulties as a result of his service. The death andattempted decapitation of Neil Roberts on Takur Ghar affected no one so profoundly as Britt Slabinski, the operator who led the rescue team back up the mountainonly to find that Roberts was already dead. Joining is simple and doesnt need to cost a lot: You can become a sustaining member for as little as $3 or $5 a month. 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. And afterwards, we added the psychological warfare.. A Predator drone video feed filmed an enemy fighter standing over Robertss body for two minutes, trying to behead the dead American with a knife. Then officials took all three of those details back, though they maintained the al Qaeda leader posed a threat. Overall, it had become clear that Slabinskis run as a leader on the battlefield caused Blue Squadron to come off the rails, according to a former SEAL Team 6 leader. A. J. Buckley as Special Warfare Operator First Class Percival "Sonny" Quinn a.k.a. ONeill was closer to Red, one of the first five assaulters. You dont whistleblow on the teams and when you win on the battlefield, you dont lose investigations.. By 2006, the command rapidly expanded, growing from 200 to 300 operators. After the raid, the White House struggled to describe the exact circumstances of bin Ladens death. The SEALs had been specifically asked to avoid shooting bin Laden in the face. The book purported to be a true account of an S.S. officer who with dozens of other soldiers escaped Germany after World War II, joined the French Foreign Legion, and spent years in Vietnam brutalizing the insurgency. But in 1998, after intervention by a senior officer at Dam Neck, Howard was given a slot on Green Team. Szymanski, according to these sources, was directed by Moore to make the episode disappear. With more extensive photographic documentation, SEAL operators had less time to fire unnecessary rounds into the dead, and they had to use the photos to explain why they fired their weapon. Fair enough. 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