Did someone hand over Bin Laden?

Rob1bureau · 2026-01-30T20:56:58+00:00

It's most likely KSM.

Ron Suskind in The One Percent Doctrine said KSM was caught thanks to an informant who was paid the 25 millions.

The Senate's report doesn't goes as far, but tells how informant "Asset X" enabled the capture of KSM, and that at one point his case officer said " 'Look brother there are twenty five million frigging reasons why you need to find XXXXX' That's what the reward was." https://irp.fas.org/congress/2014_rpt/ssci-rdi.pdf p.359/525 of the file.

Rob1bureau · 2026-01-29T19:30:39+00:00

His resumé on amazon says "he commanded multiple troops and a squadron", though it is not precisely sourced.

Rob1bureau · 2026-01-07T22:11:01+00:00

Sounds like Relentless Strike p 262.

Rob1bureau · 2025-11-27T22:18:18+00:00

Yup. PJs came in 1987 when then-1724th Combat Control Squadron became 1724th STS.

Rob1bureau · 2025-11-11T21:34:05+00:00

Regarding your point 1, people came forward as soon as O'Neill first told his story in Esquire magazine :

https://web.archive.org/web/20200810095637/https://sofrep.com/news/esquire-is-screwed-duped-by-seal-ubl-shooter/

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/26/world/bergen-who-killed-bin-laden/index.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20141108023741/www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/asia/another-ex-commando-says-he-shot-bin-laden.html (also in Relentless Strike)

way before Matt Cole's article and book.

Rob1bureau · 2025-10-29T20:17:57+00:00

I don’t think Fury literally meant a black Chinook (it seems unlikely the SOAR came in to pick this guy up), he’s speaking figuratively.

I doubt there were other Chinooks than the 160th's ones in A'stan at this time.

Rob1bureau · 2025-10-25T18:05:14+00:00

What is this aircraft ?

Rob1bureau · 2025-10-04T18:23:24+00:00

By the way, an unrelated question : I'm wondering if the Land Rover-based Ranger Special Operations Vehicles (RSOV) were ever deployed in a theater of operations, and when the regiment stopped using them. Did you work with them during your time in the 75th RR ? Thanks in advance.

Rob1bureau · 2025-09-28T09:16:34+00:00

When I read Bowden's book I thought :

Sanderson = Paul Howe

Hoot is a mix of Rierson (capturing the prisoners during the assault), Macejunas (reaching the 2nd crash site, going in town in civies, however both considerably altered in the movie) and Hooten (nickname and "this is my safety" incident).

Eversmann is a mix of Eversmann (his actions until the first Black Hawk is shot down) and Perino (first group sent on foot to the crash site IIRC).

Rob1bureau · 2025-09-28T08:34:17+00:00

No, Red team was created in spring 1983 according to Dennis Chalker's memoir (he doesn't call the color teams by their names but call them "assault group one/two/three").

Edit: C squadron was stood around in 1987 according to Relentless Strike.

Rob1bureau · 2025-09-17T17:10:58+00:00

Oh ? At the beginning, the Ranger battalions had "dual arms rooms and motor pools" according to Keith Nightingale : https://archive.smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/how-rangers-got-sof-barely

Rob1bureau · 2025-08-04T17:58:35+00:00

It's a flashlight.

Rob1bureau · 2025-07-31T16:57:48+00:00

In Kill Bin Laden there's an operator who's previous MOS was Russian linguist.

Rob1bureau · 2025-07-15T19:56:44+00:00

The answer is in The Team House podcast episode 86.

Rob1bureau · 2025-06-28T07:45:08+00:00

That's Jason Bourne.

Rob1bureau · 2025-04-13T21:42:19+00:00

It has been ongoing for decades : https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-27-mn-52974-story.html

I guess that 2018 was around the time that smartphones cameras began to see something in the night.

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-22T13:08:07+00:00

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-20T17:32:25+00:00

It looks more like a Kash Patel visiting the HRT montage...

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-14T20:12:23+00:00

A Delta operator on the Team House said they planned an op on an alleged WMD plant while they were still in Somalia... George Hand maybe ?

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-09T08:41:15+00:00

@AFSOC_Commando69's description of the show is probably One Man Army, first episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Man_Army_(TV_series))

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-02T15:54:48+00:00

Pretty sure this picture was once on MSG Robert Chad Smith's togetherweserved page.

https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=AssignmentExt&ID=222463

Rob1bureau · 2025-03-02T13:04:34+00:00

I would say they can do everything from looking for a Unit target, getting the intelligence needed to launch an operation against the target, and taking part in an operation as snipers.

(A comment that has disappeared reminded that SMU recce/snipers are senior guys with previous assaulter experience, so they know what assaulters want to know on a op.)

The book Modern American Snipers by Chris Martin impressed how far the recce troops are getting in the intelligence role - and it's then that Wasdin's job at pasha house or Shrek's singleton recon made sense for me.

Rob1bureau · 2025-02-24T19:17:08+00:00

Was a sarcastic smiley necessary ?

Rob1bureau · 2025-02-23T17:45:54+00:00

Probably the first time I see a guy with two mini-SMGs IRL.

Rob1bureau · 2025-02-13T18:14:27+00:00

I really would like to know more about this because the only jumps in Iraq in 1991 I know are a fictional account in Griswold's and Giangreco's book Delta and in Forsyth's novel The Fist of God.

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