Posted on 08/22/2012 10:05:38 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A detailed first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, written by a member of the Navy SEALs who participated in the mission and was present at Bin Laden’s death, will be released next month, the publisher said on Wednesday.
A closely held secret within Penguin, the publishing house that is planning to release it on Sept. 11, the book promises to be one of the biggest titles of the year, with the potential to rattle the presidential campaign in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 election.
Titled “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden,” the book was written by a member of the SEALs who is using the pseudonym Mark Owen. Dutton, the imprint of Penguin that acquired the book, said he used a pen name and changed the names of other SEAL members for security reasons.
The author, a former member of SEAL Team 6, was a leader in the operation that resulted in the death of Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. According to a description of the book provided by the publisher, the author gives a “blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death.” It describes the book as “an essential piece of modern history.”
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Different article.. Just passing on the other thread so you can read it and the comments.
Welp, my Kindle is all fired up and ready to go.
Judging by the reactions of Navy Seals to the release of information by the Obama administration, there are going to be a lot of pixxxxed off Navy Seals when this book is released.
Is it patriotic to buy a book like this?
No. You’ll encourage more of them and isn’t that what the SEALs are pixxed off about?
OOK OUT SEALS!!!! Obama made you all come to the White House so many people KNOW who you are and where you live! If you don’t pay homage to Obama, the IRS will come after you.
LOOK OUT SEALS!!!! Obama made you all come to the White House so many people KNOW who you are and where you live! If you don’t pay homage to Obama, the IRS will come after you.
I’m on the fence on this but judging by old Tom Clancy books, as long as the names are changed due to security reasons, I;m cool with it.
And...as long as the author gives the REAL story of how the Pentagon tried to hide the operations from obama, who was found at the gold course all clueless except for the picture taking later on.
I may be wrong but I thought the team that killed Bin Laden were killed.
Wrong, no US were killed.
Thank God for the Thread Patrol.
He means later when the helo crashed in afghan with a lot of them onboard.
No, None were killed in the helicopter downing later. Some from Seal Team 6, but not any that took part in the raid.
Another thing that apparently has them pixxed off, IIRC, is that Obama gave hollywood access to the SEAL's facilities and ordered current SEALs to cooperate with the production of a movie that was originally planned for release in October.
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