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Source: New York Times
They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they have emerged soaked in blood that was not their own. On clandestine raids in the dead of the night, their weapons of choice have ranged from customized carbines to primeval tomahawks.
Around the world, they have run spying stations disguised as commercial boats, posed as civilian employees of front companies and operated undercover at embassies as male-female pairs, tracking those the United States wants to kill or capture.
Those operations are part of the hidden history of the Navys SEAL Team 6, one of the nations most mythologized, most secretive and least scrutinized military organizations. Once a small group reserved for specialized but rare missions, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been transformed by more than a decade of combat into a global manhunting machine.
... Almost everything about SEAL Team 6, a classified Special Operations unit, is shrouded in secrecy the Pentagon does not even publicly acknowledge that name though some of its exploits have emerged in largely admiring accounts in recent years. But an examination of Team 6s evolution, drawn from dozens of interviews with current and former team members, other military officials and reviews of government documents, reveals a far more complex, provocative tale.
... Team 6 has successfully carried out thousands of dangerous raids that military leaders credit with weakening militant networks, but its activities have also spurred recurring concerns about excessive killing and civilian deaths.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html
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(2,778 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Oh, that trail of dead bodies? Pay no mind. They surely were very bad people. Anyone who objects is probably in league with the terrorists. God bless America.
This is, quite simply, nauseating.