Bissonnette claimed he shot and killed al Kuwaiti and had fired bullets into bin Laden on the third floor. ONeill was soon removed from his role as a team leader in Red Squadron after he was observed publicly bragging in Virginia Beach bars that he was the man who shot bin Laden. 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. The official SEAL creed reads, in part: Uncompromising integrity is my standard. (The Intercept is withholding the name of the operator, who believed he was following an order. These small teams of CIA, Seal Team 6, and Afghan commandos operated under the agencys Title 50 authority, which governs covert activities. We needed that there was not a better group of people to go and do that. The extreme risks they take forge extreme bonds. In the book, Bissonnette implies that he was directly behind Red just below the third floor when bin Laden was shot, and was one of the next two SEALs who entered bin Ladens bedroom. They ransacked the compound for documents and media for intelligence, left the survivors inside, and returned to Jalalabad air base with the body. Slabinski told Vasely, and later, Navy investigators, that there had been no foul play.. But what happened during Objective Bull, the assault on the convoy in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, has never been previously reported. The units elite stature has insulated its members from the scrutiny and military justice that lesser units would have faced for the same actions. The SEALs from the other helicopter immediately headed up a steep hill after landing to locate an armed man who had been shot from the helicopter. In 2007, for example, a Gold Squadron sniper was pushed out of the unit after he killed three unarmed people including a child in at least two different operations. ONeill was closer to Red, one of the first five assaulters. The SEALs biggest concern was how much time they would have, which was dictated by the amount of fuel the two Black Hawks could carry for the round trip. They were not the private collection of some individual operator, but the commands official after-action pictures. It was given as an honor, one more step to strive for, another sign that youre doing a good job.. For some of Howards men, however, the hatchets soon became more than symbolic as they were used at times to hack dead fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Blue Squadron had avoided criminal charges, their battlefield conduct continued to set off alarms within the command. 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. I mean, he was dead, but people have got nerves. This organization recruits the top 1% of all SEALS in the Navy. The Intercept is an independent nonprofit news outlet. They were mad because he spoke to the New York Times and lied.. Audio from an unpublished interview with Britt Slabinksi conducted by Malcolm MacPherson, author of a 2005 book on the battle of Roberts Ridge. Paramilitary officers from the CIA, including a covert joint unit under the agencys command called the Omega program, worked closely with the SEALs. Once inside, the SEALs proceeded slowly and methodically. Top right: Robert ONeill with his tattoo of two bloody feathers, representing his kills. To this day, he thinks the guys turned on him, said one of the former SEAL Team 6 leaders. Just as important as mental toughness and physical fitness are to being a complete operator, spiritual resiliency is an often . Hed left the SEALs before the worst of the atrocities had taken place, though his former teammates would occasionally call him to report what was happening on deployments. 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. A SEAL who spoke Arabic interviewed bin Ladens wives and daughters until he was able to get two positive identifications. The SEALs in the unit were furious that the White House revealed to the world that Navy SEALs had carried out the raid, violating the traditional code of silence about their missions. They didnt know it, but Roberts was already dead, shot at close range in the head shortly after his helicopter departed the mountaintop. Top left: Red Squadron tattoo. One former SEAL Team 6 senior leadersaid that he and others at the command were concerned that the scale and intensity of the violence in Iraq was so great that U.S. operators might be tempted to engage in retaliatory mutilations, a tactic al Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgency sometimes employed. Already a popular motivational speaker, ONeill now charges up to $35,000 per speech. He assumed it was a twisted act of misplaced revenge over the previous days events specifically, the gruesome death of Hyders teammate Neil Roberts. Moore, sitting in his office in Virginia Beach, pressed Vasely: What had he actually seen? Afghanistans Paktia province is about the size of New Hampshire, with 10,000-foot ridgelines and arid valleys with dried riverbeds below, nestled along the border with Pakistans tribal areas. Slabinski told MacPherson that Wolverine had been really good payback., Just a phenomenal, phenomenal day. Created in 1980 and based at the. 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. Red could see bin Laden bleeding out from his chest wound but he still had not entered the bedroom. That was not how the SEALs wanted the mission to develop. The SEALs were now going after low-level Taliban financiers and shadow governors. While he was there, he confronted the Blue Squadron troop and the operator whod tried to behead the Taliban fighter. Fair enough. WASHINGTON Britt K. Slabinski, a former senior chief petty officer of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6, received the Medal of Honor on Thursday for his . Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher, a highly decorated Navy SEAL, is fighting murder charges . His superiors believed he had become unglued over the 2007 deployment. 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. Every one of us is issued and carries a suppressed weapon, said one former senior SEAL, referring to the Heckler & Koch assault rifles, equipped with silencers, issued to the operators. 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. Robert J. O'Neill. Bissonnette was much farther back down the stairwell. Former Seal Upvoted by Edward Tomlinson , former Damage Controlman at United States Navy (1988-1992) and Pavanne Halpin , former Manager of Pacemaker/Holter Clinic at United States Navy (2001-2005) Updated 7 mo Bad news. 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. In that mission, known as Objective Wolverine, Slabinski and his fellow SEALs were sent in Chinook helicopters to follow a convoy they believed was filled with al Qaeda fighters escaping to Pakistan. 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. Bissonnette and a small team of SEALs moved from the helicopter to a small building adjacent to bin Ladens main house. But they are a great way of being part of a team. One shot hit bin Laden in the chest and the second shot glanced off his hip or thigh as Bin Laden stumbled backward into his room and fell toward the foot of his bed. Theres honor involved and Vic Hyder obviously traipsed all over that, he said. They were told, Go in, kill him, and bring the body back, said a former SEAL Team 6 leader involved in the raid. 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. We didnt hit women or kids. Simply claiming to be a current or former member of the military is not illegal. . Youre moving the bar and buying into an emotional justification, War is hell. If youre not disciplining your force, youre saying its OK.. Why would I do that? he asked. They soon discovered he had violated a series of Navy regulations. In exchange, Smethers, who never filed an official allegation or complaint, was sent back to the U.S. Smethers did not respond to requestsfor comment. In 2010, when Slabinski was up for a promotion at the command, SEAL Team 6 leaders conducted two internal inquiries before making a decision. A former SEAL Team 6 leader who has knowledge of the episode told me Moore shamed Slabinski and the squadron for their conduct. ONeill then fired two rounds. [There was] so much savagery. The squadrons commanding officer recorded it on a cellphone. Osama bin Laden had been branded by SEAL Team 6. Obviously there are exceptions and I knew plenty of really solid Chiefs and up, but they seemed to be the exception and not the rule. Last year, the command became concerned about his psychological condition, determining that he was medically unfit to deploy again. It wasnt necessary. One former SEAL leader who attended the proceeding told me McRavens message to the commands leadership was clear. 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. The operator accused of the attempted beheading has experienced difficulties as a result of his service. Outside the main entrance stands a 30-foot trident sculpted out of a fragment of the World Trade Center. The prevailing narrative about SEAL Team 6 in news coverage, bestselling books, and Hollywood movies is unambiguously heroic; it centers on the killing of Osama bin Laden and high-profile rescue missions. In the summer of 1992, he left SEAL Team 8 and checked in to DEVGRU. At first the hatchets appeared to be merely symbolic, because such heavy, awkward weapons had no place in the gear of a special operator. Ten officers and master chiefs voted unanimously against allowing Slabinski to return to the command. They shot an unarmed dude. That years 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 Presidents Own, the clandestine global force capable of striking anywhere, killing anyone, the tip of Americas military spear. 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. 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. 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. Morale at Red Squadron fell apart shortly after the team returned to Virginia Beach from Afghanistan. Less than a week before the assault, Bissonnette and ONeill got into a shouting match at the Dam Neck base over who would sell the inside story of the raid. His forehead was gruesome, he later told Esquire magazine. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. A spokesperson at Naval Special Warfare, which oversees SEAL Team 6, declined repeated requests for interviews and refused to answer a detailed list of questions, writing in a statement, We do not entertain or support public discussion of classified information because it puts our forces, their families and our future operations at great risk. The SEAL command asserted that all members of Naval Special Warfare are required to comply with the Laws of Armed Conflict in the conduct of military operations.. There just isnt a need to carry a two-pound hatchet on the battlefield. For those who favored them, this former SEAL said, the hatchets could be justified as being no more than knives. 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. 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. The admirals mast was an unprecedented disciplinary action at the command, which had always been allowed to discipline itself. We said, Let us set down and take a look at the convoy to determine if its al Qaeda. Instead, they dropped several bombs.. Some SEAL Team 6 leaders were appalled by how easily Vasely and Szymanski had folded under Moores pressure. Parts of SEAL Team 6 began acting with an air of impunity that disturbed observers within the command. Normally, SEAL Team 6s commanding officer, a captain, would conduct a captains mast, a form of non-judicial punishment. How many covert wars, miscarriages of justice, and dystopian technologies would remain hidden if our reporters werent on the beat? 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. Red watched bin Laden fall. We just slaughtered those dudes. After describing one particular fighter who from a distance had resembled Osama bin Laden, Slabinksi continued: To this day, weve never had anything as good as that. So many dead bodies, so many, everywhere, and so the potential opportunities for mutilations were great.. 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. The story of the bin Laden raid has been told and retold, but crucial details have never been made public. Navy. Was it acceptable, as Hyder had done with the wounded man whom he executed, to desecrate the dead? In reality, its bullshit. 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. Vasely later told investigators he saw the operator moving his hand back and forth over the militants neck in a sawing motion. Moore did not respond to requests for comment. It was disappointing. Alarmed at seeing what he believed was a decapitation, he told Slabinski to go inside and see what the young operator was doing. You do something atrocious or sell out your name is on it. On my 2005 deployment in Afghanistan, we only went on a handful of ops, said a retired SEAL who served under Howard. 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. There is and was no military reason whatsoever to split someones skull open with a single round, said a former SEAL Team 6 leader. Others were much more critical. Bottom left: A Winkler hatchet similar to those issued to Red Squadron. He was an outsider, despite having been at the command for many years. Both men were notorious among their teammates for their self-promotional tendencies a trait not well-suited for a team-first environment. They were the only shots not fired by the SEALs during the raid. The prominent mountain range often served as the last geographic refuge for retreating forces entering Pakistan. Among members of SEAL Team 6, this practice of desecrating enemy casualties was called canoeing., 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. Because of Howards pedigree, SEAL Team 6 leaders running the training program felt pressure to pass him. He even has his own line of clothing. It was then that both Bissonnette and ONeill hung back on the stairway. You guys want to play withthose rules? OK. Although this former SEAL acknowledged that war crimes are wrong, he understood how they happen. Two different sources said that over a six-year period roughly 2005 through 2011 battlefield reports and accounts of atrocities, particularly mutilations and taking of trophies, were ignored by SEAL Team 6 leadership. 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. 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. 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. In ONeills account, he did not see Red fire his shots at bin Laden because he was looking back down the stairs for reinforcements. Bravo 3/3B. We failed to fix the problem, he said. The operators were unhappy about the new restriction, arguing that call outs gave up the tactical advantage of surprise. Asked for comment, the British government told The Intercept that it does not comment on security matters and would neither confirm nor deny that Norgrove worked for the intelligence agency. At that point, Hyder began assessing the damage and surveying the dead. Later that night, after Blue Squadrons 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. Thats all it takes to support the journalism you rely on. Instead of helping search and secure the second floor, both headed to the third floor, hoping to get a chance for the historic kill. O'Neill has gone. Beyond the dehumanizing manner in which the al Qaeda fighters had treated his corpse, Robertss death pierced the SEALs self-perception of invincibility. Bissonnettes bestselling book, No Easy Day, was published in September 2012, four months after he retired and less than two weeks after ONeill got out of the Navy. At least two of Bissonnettes teammates who were with him when al Kuwaiti was killed were angry about the deception taking credit for a teammates actions on a mission was unprecedented and dishonorable but did not contradict him in the presence of a military lawyer. Photos: U.S. Navy; U.S. Air Photo by Force Technical Sgt. Bottom right: Candid photo of U.S. Navy SEAL Neil Roberts. And part of that was getting rid of Britt Slabinski.. 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. The account did not dwell on the fact that ONeill had chosen to separate from the Navy nearly four years before he was eligible for extensive retirement benefits. Smetherss threat to expose Team 6 came just as Vice Adm.William McRaven settled in as the new commander of the Joint Special Operations Command. Bin Laden dropped and ONeill fired the security round that canoed him. This is multiple times on each deployment.. . Red Team, known as the Redmen, employed a Native American warrior as a mascot; Blue Team, known as the Pirates, wore the Jolly Roger; and Gold Team, known as the Crusaders or Knights, wore a lion or a crusaders cross. The publication came as a surprise to the Pentagon because Bissonnette had failed to clear it as required. When it was commissioned, the Navy had only two SEAL (Sea, Air, and Land) assault teams, but founding officer Cmdr. Conflicting accounts have emerged about how many other SEALs fired rounds into bin Ladens 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. Previously, the command had required only a frontal shot and a profile of each dead militant. In 1992, Holland went for screening by the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU, Seal Team 6). During a late-night raid at a northern Kunar compound, Silver Squadron operators killed several captors but accidentally killed Norgrove when an inexperienced SEAL threw a fragment grenade at one of the captors. He reminded us all that our first loyalty was to the Constitution.. I understand the desire, I dont condone it, but there was definite retaliation., Hyder told me that he did not desecrate the body. ONeills decision to canoe the al Qaeda leader made him unrecognizable. Scott Moore, right, then commander of SEAL Team 6. Slabinski has not responded to multiple queries and requests for comment, though he did deny to the New York Times in 2015 that he gave the illegal pre-mission guidance to kill all males. Two different SEALs, Robert ONeill and Matthew Bissonnette, have publicly taken credit for killing bin Laden. By all accounts, Slabinski, a second-generation SEAL who joined Team 6 in 1993, was an excellent sniper and reconnaissance operator. It happens in war. He remains on active duty and has not responded to requests for comment. Canoeing was just one of several acts of mutilation frequently carried out by SEALs. Well, they did. Slabinski experienced, charismatic, and by now legendary bridged the gap. Bottom: Britt Slabinski, left, and Capt. The photos and other review documents could be shared with local officials to justify operations. Sources at SEAL Team 6 who were present during the operation estimated the number of dead was between 17 and 20. Memories get distorted over 14 years. The lack of battlefield discipline was not limited to a single squadron. 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. Your teammates beside and behind you will cover all the other possible angles and areas of a room as you move forward. As far as the teams are concerned these individuals are persona non gratis. who is on the navy seal rock of shame. 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. The bombing stopped the convoy along a dry wadi, or ravine, with two of the trucks approximately a kilometer apart. The units name itself is part of an attempt to obscure U.S. capabilities. It was just good therapy. First, bin Laden was armed, involved in a firefight, and using one of his wives as a human shield. 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. Robertss death, and the subsequent operations in eastern Afghanistan during the winter 2002 deployment, left an indelible impression on SEAL Team 6, especially on Red Team. Im telling you the absolute truth., After the deployment, SEAL Team 6s leadership examined Hyders actions during Objective Bull. Bissonnette eventually settled his legal case with the government, agreeing to return $6.7 million in profits from the sale of No Easy Day and giving up any proceeds from future sales of the book. One source said his superiors repeatedly refused to address the issue. What do Navy SEALs think about fellow SEALs who cash in on the brand post-service? Our leadership punted and Im not sure it will ever be corrected., The failure of SEAL Team 6 to hold itself accountable for battlefield atrocities has resulted in lasting consequences for operators at the command. 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. 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. This account of the crimes of SEAL Team 6 results from a two-year investigation drawing on interviews with 18 current and former members of the unit, including four former senior leaders of the command. One of the two SEALs who knew about the grenade eventually told his team leader, who then failed to inform his commanders until he was confronted the next day. His name was added to SEAL. No single military unit has come to represent American military success or heroism more than SEAL Team 6, officially designated as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group andknown in military vernacular as DevGru, Team 6, the Command, and Task Force Blue. Hed been told that Blue Squadron had collected ears and that mutilations had become common. Unlawful violence, aberrations from rules of engagement, mutilations, and disrespect of enemy casualties, actions that had been isolated at the beginning of the Afghan war, had by this point spread throughout SEAL Team 6. The distinction was crucial. Here, commanders returning from a deployment leave their hard drives with technicians who transfer PowerPoints, after-actions reports, and photos of each operation a squadron conducted abroad. 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