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The raid killed three prominent members of Al Qaeda: Abdulraoof al-Dhahab, Sultan al-Dhahab and Seif al-Nims [107] [109] The US military estimated that 14 Qaeda fighters were killed in the raid, that women were among the Qaeda fighters killed and injured, and that "the SEALs saw the women running to fighting positions as the team approached."
[29] [34] [35] Two American snipers aboard a helicopter killed two guards using sound-suppressed rifles. [29] An AC-130 Spectre gunship provided the US troops on the ground with close air support, killing two fleeing Taliban. [36] [37] The Rangers secured enemy positions on the nearby hills, [29] and all six Taliban gunmen who fought the US ...
Richard Marcinko – Served two combat tours in the Vietnam War before serving as commanding officer of SEAL Team Two (1974–1976). First commanding officer of SEAL Team Six from October 1980 to July 1983 and Red Cell from 1984 to 1986; co-author of New York Times bestseller Rogue Warrior.
In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday. Navy SEAL, 8-year-old American girl died in Yemen raid Skip to ...
[3] [4] By February 2018, the strangulation had prompted a broad internal military audit and investigation of SEAL Team Six, which named the two members who were persons of interest in the homicide and initially focused on analyzing their conflicting statements regarding Melgar's death. While they had stated that Melgar had been intoxicated on ...
The unprecedented media coverage raised the public profile of the SEAL community, particularly the counter-terrorism specialists commonly known as SEAL Team 6. The Walt Disney Company tried unsuccessfully to trademark the name "SEAL Team 6" the day after the raid. [98] The official name of the military operation was Operation Neptune Spear.
Richard “Dick” Marcinko, the first commanding officer of Navy SEAL Team 6, died on Christmas Day at the age of 81, according to his family.
The SEAL team exited and needed to breach two walls and then into the house. As a result, Osama bin Laden was killed several minutes into the operation. [54] Pfarrer's account differs in that he wrote that a SEAL team was inserted onto the roof of the main house, that Osama bin Laden was killed seconds into the operation, and that the main ...