Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Critics Call "SEAL Target Geronimo's" Description Of The Bin Laden Raid A Lie

Spec-Ops Command: SEAL Raid Book 'A Lie' -- MSNBC/AP

Spokesman disputes author's claim that SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving at compound.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Special Operations Command is calling a former Navy SEAL's book bogus over its claims to describe the "real" version of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

"It's just not true," U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Col. Tim Nye said. "It's not how it happened."

Laden with conspiracy theories and attacks on the Obama White House, Chuck Pfarrer's "SEAL Target Geronimo" claims an alternative version of the raid in which the SEAL team shot bin Laden within 90 seconds of arriving at the Pakistan compound where the al-Qaida mastermind was holed up.

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More News On Critics Calling The Book "SEAL Target Geronimo" A Lie

Former Navy Seal's book on Bin Laden's death branded 'fabrication' -- The Guardian
'Categorically incorrect': Special Ops Commander brands book on SEAL raid that killed bin Laden a lie -- Daily Mail
U.S. Military Says Bin Laden Slay Book Tells Lies -- IBTimes
U.S. military: Bin Laden raid book "a lie" -- CBS/AP
Don’t Believe the WMD Hype in ‘SEAL Target Geronimo’ -- Kris Alexander, Danger Room
Military crying foul over alternate account of raid that killed Osama Bin Laden -- New York Daily News

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