Author: Eric Sof. And he fires two shots into bin Laden. But no one else is told, going forward, in any other assignment that you get, that thats what happened to you. The team guys that chose to walk down that road are certainly never coming back psychologically. But with such a professional force, it was really startling to hear that Americas most heralded unit, the best of the best, the Presidents Own, were so emotionally involved with this war and these battles that they felt the need to conduct a form of psychological warfare on the enemy. I couldnt get a sense, actually, ofmy sources couldnt remember, because it was a long time agohow much money was the total dollar figures. AMY GOODMAN: The title of your investigative expos in The Intercept is The Crimes of SEAL Team 6. The crimes. You know, it is important to remember that in all of this, most members of SEAL Team 6, the majority of SEAL Team 6, did not commit war crimes and atrocities. That was in 2004, 2003-2004. Like the Navy SEALS taking the Morning Glory tanker in a blatant display of piracy on the high seas. Other military and intelligence officials who have served with or investigated the unit were also interviewed. In their time commanding Group 2, Szymanski and Slabinski helped craft what has become the unofficial Navy SEAL creed, which ends with this: I serve with honor on and off the battlefield. And they were inquiries because theres no paper record of this. Its a work of fiction billed as the Bible, as the truth. But he wasnt going tothey werent going to punish him or reprimand him in any way. MATTHEW COLE: Absolutely. When you join SEAL Team 6, you already have six years of experience as a SEAL. /u/nowyourdoingit care to weigh in on this? What say you now? And so, he did exactly as he was trained to do, which was to go slowly to the doorway and see and assess whether or not the person he shot was still a threat. He makeshe makes it sound as though he was there and next to ONeill and, with ONeill, fires the last shots that kill bin Laden. 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. And the SEALs went out and did it, very effectively. A member of the Navy's SEAL Team 6 has been found guilty of catfishing three women and soliciting nude photos of them. He was standing with two female relatives to the sideon each side of him. I always thought war was the crime. Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Howard was convicted of indecent conduct on . Well, they did. Slabinski later told author Malcolm MacPherson, in a taped interview obtained by The Intercept, that a few days after the battle, his team ambushed and killed nearly two dozen Al Qaeda fighters headed toward the Pakistan border. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. The SEALs disagreed, and Rear Adm. Timothy Szymanski, the commanding officer of Naval Special Warfare, pushed for an upgrade for Slabinskis service cross. The officer, Cmdr. But the announcement of the award for Britt Slabinski and the concurrent decision to give the same award to John Chapman, a deceased Air Force combat controller came after a yearslong campaign to recognize disputed events 16 years ago on a remote mountain in Afghanistan. Members of SEAL Team 6 have told me they believe the award is meant, in large part, to help validate and cover up a series of ultimately fatal decisions taken by Szymanski and other senior SEAL Team 6 officers. And so, youre never fired. on about your day, ask yourself: How likely is it that the story you just read would have been produced by a different news outlet if The Intercept hadnt done it? http://i.imgur.com/cZ1ChhE.jpg, xcbassxNvm, asked and answered. In the room with four of the suspected insurgents, four SEALs counted down and canoed each sleeping man with a shot to the forehead. Describe where that his and what happened. With additional teammates severely wounded, and believing Chapman was dead, Slabinski ordered his SEAL team to retreat down the mountain. We are just the ones who are willing to do what others won't. BRITT SLABINSKI: After I shot this dude in the head, there was a guy that had his feet, just his feet, sticking out of some little rut or something over here. And I think the audio that we played, that you played earlier, is indicative of someone who does not have his head right. And he was. Would I also do my best to be sure I didn't kill anyone that didn't need it and that I didn't make a habit of using that stuff? 22. And heby all accounts, what he did on the battleon the top of Takur Ghar during Roberts Ridge to try to retrieve his teammate was heroic. And it makes a big difference in terms of understanding what really happened. 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Heupon learning that Slabinski had been blackballed out of the unit for substantiated allegations of war crimes or criminal activity, what does he do? Chesapeake, VA c.1995. No one pushed for the upgrade more than Szymanski, according to both current and former Navy officers. AMY GOODMAN: Matthew Cole, I want to thank you for being with us, national security reporter for The Intercept. They spun a story to make themselves heroic and make money off of it, and it wasnt accurate. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit VKontakte Share via Email Print. And what came there was a slowsorry, I should say, a fast cover-up by three members of SEAL Team 6 who were on the mission, to avoid the embarrassment of what had just happened, which was that, in fact, the captor had not killed her, SEAL Team 6 had. Sgt. They arethey have no bullets in them. Theres a propaganda show called What on Earth, some very subjective interpretations of satellite images. This isn't just SEALs, it's warfighters from all the branches. Both versions of what happened at Takur Ghar cannot be true. Whatever war crimes are being pointed out are a calculated tactic to instill fear in the enemy with the intent to demoralize them and avoid more deaths. And the man who led them, at a very high level, understood that. I think I doI do knowand it wasnt in this piece, but there is more toyou know, he had some subsequent positions in the Navy SEALs that werehad somethere were some ethical flags raised in those positions, as well, towards the end of his career. AMY GOODMAN: Matthew Cole, as you talk about, really, in some of these cases, for the first time, what this unit has done, TeamSEAL Team 6, and you talk about canoeing, in general, there are those who wanted to expose this, like a CIA paramilitary officers attempt to blow the whistle on this. And so, he got caught. What kind of response did you get to your piece? In the memo, the commander claimed the article was full of grievous, accusatory claims and allegations that had been previously investigated and determined to be not substantiated., The article alleges involvement of ST-6 personnel in law of armed conflict violations, including accusations of cover up by senior officials, the memo continued. More significantly, the decision to award a Medal of Honor to Slabinski represents the enduring failure of the SEALs, the Pentagon, Congress, and the White House to reckon with the dark history of SEAL Team 6 in the post-9/11 wars. AMY GOODMAN: And the names of the officers you feel should be challenged? Mutilating the dead is considered a war crime, and in at least one reported instance the desire to mutilate the dead ran overrode explicit orders: Late that year, the CIA joined operators from Gold Squadron for an operation near Jalalabad. 2023 Getty Images. AMY GOODMAN: And, Matthew Cole, the difference between your piece for The Intercept, your piece called The Crimes of SEAL Team 6, and The New York Times in the summer of 2015, SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines? Just because someone runs from the objective doesn't mean they were innocent. This is viewer supported news. Canoeing is the act of aiming a final gunshot through the top of the victims forehead such that the head splits open to form a V like the bow of a canoe. I mean, Zinke has still never responded. Linda Norgrove worked for DAI, Development Alternatives Inc, an American NGO, a cover for being an agent for MI-6. And thats the point, you know, that no one has looked deeply at whats occurred. The trauma from Roberts Ridge was clear and Slabinski has saidthat he still sees fighters moving in slow motion from that day. For two hours, SEAL Team 6 and officers from the Joint Special Operations Command scrambled a rescue force to recover Roberts. So, after a mission, he tries to cut a mans head off. They do the needed dirty work to protect the rights of much lesser men that write articles to virtue signal. They put his name on after he went and spoke on the record and lied to the press.. On one occasion, one member of SEAL Team Six was said to have mutilated a body just for fun: I mean, talk about the funny stuff we do. One, the last episode of last season, was about China putting in defensive bases on islands in the South China Sea. Is that right? Updated: May 05, 2011 00:18 IST. Yesterday,The Intercept published the results of a two-year investigation on alleged war crimes and war profiteering of SEAL Team Six in its rapid expansion of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The team guys will go and not because we want to kill people, it's because we want to do our job and willing to risk our lives to accomplish it. Winkler hatchets are tomahawks made by craftsman Daniel Winkler for the SEAL Team 6 Red Squadron, known as the redmen, who are expected to bloody their hatchets as they conduct their raids. Itll hurt the administration. For that sin, SEAL Team 6 added Slabinski to the rock of shame, a list of former members of SEAL Team 6 who were no longer welcome to visit the command. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. For 15 years, as SEAL Team 6 senior officers and leaders received reports that their operators were skinning, scalping, canoeing, and otherwise mutilating enemy corpses with custom-made hatchets in Afghanistan and Iraq, they either ignored the warnings or helped cover them up. And when you look deeply at some of the things that happened under his command, its quite disturbing. The NCIS investigation was part of the cover-up. And in the case of both ONeill and Bissonnette, and in SEAL Team 6 at large, thats what we have here. But three years later, a small group of unit leaders quickly substantiated the allegations and even secured a confession. It hasnt happened. The Intercept is an independent nonprofit news outlet. And they had gotten out of control. They are a praetorian guard and duty and honor are utterly beyond them, they are just sadistic savages. Does that mean they are psychopaths? So, the British government requested that SEAL Team 6 go save her. MATTHEW COLE: Yeah, we had calledwe had sought comment before the story ran. AMY GOODMAN: You write that even before the killing, that two of the Team 6 members, Matt Bissonnette and Robert ONeill, had an argument that had to be broken up by their fellow SEALs about who would tell the story after. And a lot of that was meant to pull the leash on SEAL Team 6. There is no one they hate more than us. Just like your Momma taught you. by inciting war among all parties and selling arms and drugs all around. Hes got a family, and, you know, hell lose pay. There are bad eggs in every bunch, and unfortunately this is true with the teams. I will say, generally speaking, I've had more nights than I'd like where I had to sit, silently nodding and consoling a guy who had too much to drink and wanted to get some shit off his chest; lighting up a kid in a car, turning a mini-gun on civilians, taking a shot on someone running away. So, you know, and I still think that there are questions that remain unanswered about the mission, the operation and how thewhat the administration knew about his location. Allowing a lack of integrity to grow and develop within any organization will lead to abuses like it or not. And they did. 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. I shot him about 20 times in the legs. John McPhee, ex-Delta guy, there was an interview of him posted on this sub a few days ago. A lot of it has to do with politics and rank and stature and always, in my opinion, the more dynamic and public the screw-up, the more likely it is that someone is going to get highly decorated., Another of Slabinskis former teammates said 25 years of experience as a SEAL convinced him that the award system for valorous action has little integrity. You cant call them in investigations. They are the origin of terror. And my story pieces together what really happened. And that was another case where the punishment, you know, the way the command tried to hold itself accountable, was considered insufficient. Furthermore, the op tempo at the time was ridiculous and some DG dudes have killed more people than the electric chair. Slabinkski and others in the squadron had fallen under the influence of an obscure war novel, Devils Guard, published in 1971 by George Robert Elford. Background, Helicopter Shot Down in Afghanistan Killing Members of SEAL Team 6: Latest Political News & Articles | Observer, Extortion 17 Is A Bigger Scandal and Betrayal Than Benghazi - Freedom Outpost, Cher is back on the charts with Womans World, Obama : Sent Radical Muslim Cleric to condemn Seal Team 6 to hell during Funeral (May 10, 2013), San Juan County mourns death of Jason Workman Navy Seal from Blanding - With the death of Navy Seal Jason Workman San Juan County and the nation as a whole has lost one of its best warriors. Don't get caught, and don't do it just to do it, and if you do get caught you should be punished, because the system matters more than you. In the aftermath of the mission off the coast of Africa to end the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama (later made into the movie Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks), Navy investigative officials apparently suspected the SEALs of stealing $30,000 in cash that had been stashed in a lifeboat. He is a descendant of an admiral, a long history of naval officers in his family, graduate of the Naval Academy. Thats all it takes to support the journalism you rely on. A Team 6 member at the time, Britt Slabinksi, describing the aftermath of an operation to take down a convoy that they believed was filled with al-Qaeda fighters trying to escape to AfghanistanSlabinski and a team of snipers, who killed nearly 20 al-Qaeda fighters. AMY GOODMAN: So you say bin Laden was killed unarmed and in the dark. The cover-up wins. Your email address will not be published. Your support of that shit makes YOU a confirmed Baby Killer, punk. And what we know is that despite the fact that. Access the best of Getty Images and iStock with our simple subscription plan. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. He was expensing it to the U.S. government and calling it work, when in fact it was personal. AMY GOODMAN: Lets go back to that clip, which we played in Part 1 of the conversation. Browse 8,940 seal team stock photos and images available, or search for navy seal team to find more great stock photos and pictures. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report, as we turn to another of Donald Trumps picks for his Cabinet. But it didnt provide a whole lot of answers. The answer lies in how effective and widespread the culture of lies and cover-ups has been at SEAL Team 6. This is a rush transcript. It was murder. NO,NO, and NO!! According to two senior SEAL Team 6 sources, however, the leadership dynamic in Blue Squadron was a failure. AMY GOODMAN: They called you because you called them? And he says to histo the debrief and to the team later, he wasnt a threat, so he then wraps his arms around two of the women who are in the room, who are becoming hysterical. MATTHEW COLE: He was effectively forced to leave SEAL Team 6. A lot of it turns out to be agricultural activity or archaeological sites. So McRaven orders a stand-down, about a two-week stop in almost all special operations forces. But they feature prominently in an Intercept expos about the war crimes of Americas most famous death squad. After Slabinskis admission, the most senior enlisted member of SEAL Team 6 told him, Thats not what were about. MATTHEW COLE: There are three in particular that my story goes into. And the commandthis was in 1999 or 2000, before the warsdecided that he had to leave the unit. They have tattoos. It is a special operation forces unit considered a Tier 1 or Special Missions Unit alongside Army Delta Force and 24th Special Tactics Squadron. So, you are putting this out at the end of the Obama administration. We may earn a commission from links on this page. AMY GOODMAN: But he is awarded a Navy Cross. But, I mean, you know, it gotpeople got nervous. This occurs all the way up. AMY GOODMAN: So explain how, as you put it, Osama bin Laden was canoed. But Intercept national security reporter Matthew Cole reveals a darker side of the celebrated group. 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. In your experience did you find it to be common for Team members to practice some kind of prayer or mediation? And so, on December 17th, 2007, they conduct a raid into a compound in Helmand province, killing three or four Taliban fighters. He was a member of SEAL Team 6 at the time. August 31, 2022. And what I know, and is not in the story, but what I know is that his face was so disfigured, when they brought his body back to Jalalabad and they took him out of the body bag, they had him nude with only his genitals and his face covered, becausegenitals, out of respect, and face, because it was so disfigured, they put a small towel or tissue over his face. Total silence. As the SEAL Team 6 operations officer at Bagram Air Base, Szymanski was the mission planner for Slabinskis reconnaissance team. And so he shoots him, he drops, and then he puts a third bullet in his forehead. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. Workman. I really like to think so. In wartime humans have to adapt to survive. And politically, Karzai was hitting U.S. forces. And he was warned verbally not to do it, and then he got caught doing it again. It is thought that Marcinko set-up his new unit in his own image. So if a seal wants to canoe a dead piece of garbage all we need to say is thank you. You dont whistleblow on the teams and when you win on the battlefield, you dont lose investigations.. We continue our conversation with reporter Matthew Cole about his stunning new expos published this week in The Intercept about the elite military unit SEAL Team 6 that reveals a darker side. Zinkes team never responded. MATTHEW COLE: So, SEAL Team 6 hasand any unit can do this, but there are effective ways to get someone to move on, which is that when their time is up, when their pre-assigned task is over, their assignment, the evaluation is written in such a manner, as I understand it, that they cannot get another job within that command afterwards, because of the way the evaluation is written. Slabinski also admitted he had given an illegal order for his men to shoot all males on an operation regardless of whether or not they were armed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation. In addition, SEAL Team 6 operators were canoeing dead or dying enemy targets firing bullets at close range to the top of the skull, splitting it open at the forehead and exposing the brain matter. And what they found was that during that deployment, Slabinski had, A, said that he wanted a head on a platter. The canoeing photos are dramatic documentary evidence of the extreme and unnecessary violence that began to occur during multiple high-risk, exhausting, and traumatizing tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Only the discussion of facts. Yeah.probably doesn't like being called "less clever" either. AMY GOODMAN: And your allegations of what Vasely did? Like the war against the Lakota nation over water and oil. By awarding it to Chapman, the military endorses the view that Chapman survived his initial injuries and fought with valor after Slabinski and his SEAL team retreated down the mountain. Slabinskis military career did not end on March 4, 2002. MATTHEW COLE: He was awarded a Navy Cross, and that wont ever be taken away from him. | Skip to content News Scoops Investigative Counterspin Local News Activism Headlines That's Rich Culture Reading Found Art Spoiler Alert Yarns Disinfo Info Virus Libel On War Machine Sight-Bites Resources Manifestos Communist Manifesto 1848 Port Huron Statement 1962 Part of Seal Team 6thrown under the bus by the Obama administration along with the rest of the Seal Team members when the administration decided to "spike the ball" after Bin Laden. Wikileaks spills Afganistan War Logs detail Task Force 373, US death squad. It was good therapy. And she was unfortunately killed in the raid, unintentionally, by SEAL Team 6, as theas a firefight broke out when they arrived. By the militarys own standard, Slabinski should have been disqualified from the Medal of Honor for his actions in subsequent deployments to Afghanistan. Just as important as mental toughness and physical fitness are to being a complete operator, spiritual resiliency is an often overlooked aspect of a healthy and effective warrior. A spokesperson for the Special Operations Command did not reply to a request for comment. /u/SCUBA_STEVE34 What do you make of this? You know, one thing that I didnt mention before, and one of the things that needs to be said, is that what they were doing, in large part, was a form of psychological warfare. AMY GOODMAN: So, that is, at the time, SEAL Team 6 member Britt Slabinskiactually, not at the time, because this is recounted afterwards. One of their teammates killed the other two targets in another room. MATTHEW COLE: Vasely initially reported the beheading in Afghanistan in 2007, but, effectively, allowed Slabinski to cover it up. That all being said, allegedly ordering a team to kill all men (armed or otherwise) encountered on a mission, allegedly lying about the OBL raid for personal gain, those are just objectively bad internal dynamics that one would think need to be addressed by DevGru's leadership in order to keep the unit as effective as possible. For Advisors (480) 270-5240 Client Login, 7033 E Greenway ParkwaySuite 160 And he did this several times and was warned, I think after one or two times, that what he was doing was travel fraud. And so, in the subsequent years afterwards, their teammates viewed that lie, that he had killed the courier outside in the adjacent compound, as the beginning of Bissonnettes effort to shape his story so that he could sell it, because you need to have drama whenever youre selling a myth. Already barred from serving at SEAL Team 6, Slabinski was now physically banished. And what was interesting, actually, is how much, I learned over the two yearshow much animosity was directed towards the two SEALs who spoke out and exaggerated or lied, whatever you want to say, falsehoods. And that was a bona fides that SEAL Team 6 needed to feel comfortable with sending their men out to find her at this location. So he wasnt a kid. And they deployed to Afghanistan late in the year into Kandahar and Helmand, which at the time was, and still is, an incredibly violent, incredibly destabilized section of the country where the Taliban effectively rule. Sign up for our Daily News Digest today! While this is a harrowing and honestly depressing look into the mindset behind what SEAL Team 6 is said to have done, the Intercept report is full of other deeply disturbing incidents. It was really good therapy for everybody who was there. He also implied that it was his leadership and discipline that prevented the near-beheading in 2007. He didnthe portrayed it as asomething that was justifiable, but that the Navy ultimately decided they wouldnt pay for. Yeah. Some inside SEAL Team 6 were stunned. Bill & Karen Vaughn - "BETRAYED Parents of Navy SEAL - from South Carolina Tea Party Convention 2014, Was SEAL Team Six Executed by the US Government - Humans Are Free, DEVGRU/SEAL Team 6 3D image by Serge Averbukh. There will be no speculation. Wyman Howard was commander of Red Squadron. See more ideas about seal team 6, navy seals, special forces. And it was under the command then of Captain Wyman Howard, who had just taken over at SEAL Team 6. It is a very thorough accounting of what this unit became, first under President Bush and then under President Obama. And I wont speculate as to why. I mean, he was dead. They have a rock that sits in one of their senior leaders offices that has names on of former SEAL Team 6 members that are no longer welcome to come to the command physically. The teams just get a better opportunity at it or more chances. But the order itself was illegal. I used to do insane things with my friends at age 17 that I would never have done if I were by myself; I can only imagine what I could be capable of if I were: stationed in some Middle East hellish place for 5 years during a time of war, given authority to use force, and given plenty of weapons to do so, been reminded by those around me that I am apart of the most badass spec ops force on the planet, been made apart of some elite mohawk navajo gang, wearing decals and tomahawks that exist outside of US military insignia. sobtactical@xcbassx exactly, mighty43@sobtactical did other sof units in country know what devgru was doing? If its worth saying then put your fucking name to it. Collect, curate and comment on your files. And the initial story that the SEALs presented to their superiors and to the British government was that she had been killed by one of her captors, who had detonated a suicide vest that he was wearing, and it blew up, and she was nearby, and it killed her. And in the aftermath, one of the young operators begins to try to cut off the head of one of the fighters. He certainly was fully aware of what occurred in that room, and walked away from it. For many, he was a legendary SEAL. And we will go about taking care of our guys.. And they killed him. AMY GOODMAN: Forced to leave SEAL Team 6 but not the Navy. Again their helicopter took fire as it landed near the top. You areyour time is up, and you are quietly told that you just wont be able to come back here. is boulder star coral a producer or consumer; mcdonald's distribution channels; four brothers food truck san angelo tx; e*thirteen trs plus wheel; ensuring that proper measures are taken to keep machinery Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. And the Smethers issue, the whistleblowing, just sort of fades off into the sunset. In announcing the nomination of Republican [Rep.] Ryan Zinke, a retired Navy SEAL commander, Trump praised his military background. In 2016, after the Pentagon began reassessing silver stars and service crosses awarded during the war on terror, the Air Force put together forensics and drone video that they claimed showed Chapman got up after Slabinski and the SEALs retreated and continued to fight, alone and outnumbered, before succumbing to his wounds. And you can be removed from a unit, but it saves your career. I think it might have lessened. MATTHEW COLE: So, Congressman Zinke was a member of SEAL Team 6 as a mid-career officer and junior officer in the 1990s. He was unrecognizable. You dont like that, yall can line up and take turns helping yourselves to a Texas-size all-you-can-eat buffet of Kiss My Liberal ASS. Our sense of whats right and whats wrong is warped. I can't imagine the depths of the mental trauma that doing that kind of wanton violence to another human being does to you. Get started today on securing your financial future with BridgeLight Capital. Matthew Cole, thank you for staying with us for Part 2 of this conversation. AMY GOODMAN: And why wont he contradict them? After learning that he would never again serve at SEAL Team 6, Slabinski was thrown a lifeline by Szymanski, then commodore of Naval Special Warfare Group 2, who selected him to be his command master chief. However, it is best that the teams police their own. 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