Sunday, August 26, 2012

Al Qaeda Issues A Death Threat To The Navy SEAL Who Authored Book On Bin Laden Mission

Image: Book cover for "No Easy Day," a first-person account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. (Credit: Dutton Adult)

Al Qaeda Calls For Death Of Navy SEAL Who Authored Book On Bin Laden Mission -- CBS

(CBS News) Al Qaeda has wasted no time in calling for the death of the former Navy SEAL who has written a book under a pseudonym which his publisher Dutton calls a first person account of the death of Osama bin Laden.

A jihadist forum, al-Fidaa, located in Malaysia, posted the death calls and provided the author's name and photograph under a headline titled "First Image of One of the Dogs who killed Bin Laden." Dogs are considered unclean in Islam.

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Update #1: UNMASKED: Ex-Navy SEAL Whose Book Reveals Inside Story Of Bin Laden Raid Is OUTED… And Faces Justice Department Probe If He Exposes Military Secrets -- Daily Mail
Update #2: Fox News Outs The Navy SEAL Who Wrote An Anonymous Book On The Bin Laden Raid -- Business Insider

My Comment:
FOX News should never have outed Matt Bissonnette's name and Business Insider should never have published his picture. Having said that .... I can only hope that Matt Bissonnette knew what he was getting into when he agreed to publish this book .... and that he has taken all the necessary precautions from it's blow-back.



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