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-snip- But the anonymous author isn’t the first to tell his story of the SEALs, or even the bin Laden raid. Here’s a few other examples of stories from former SEALs willing to put their real names on the jacket cover: • SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden (November 2011) — Former Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer uses his status as a former SEAL to gain access to members of the team that carried out the raid on bin Laden to tell the story of Operation Neptune Spear. The U.S. military has called...

The CIA’s armed drones and paramilitary forces have killed dozens of al-Qaeda leaders and thousands of its foot soldiers. But there is another mysterious organization that has killed even more of America’s enemies in the decade since the 9/11 attacks. CIA operatives have imprisoned and interrogated nearly 100 suspected terrorists in their former secret prisons around the world, but troops from this other secret organization have imprisoned and interrogated 10 times as many, holding them in jails that it alone controls in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, this secretive group of men (and a few women)...

There are growing indications that the U.S. military should never have launched the ill-fated helicopter mission that sent 38 U.S. and Afghan troops crashing to their deaths in eastern Afghanistan. [.....] U.S. commanders in Afghanistan, meanwhile, have fueled the growing questions over the mission by providing differing explanations for the mission itself. A former SEAL commander with extensive recent combat experience said he didn't know who the Taliban leader was, but there was no way he was worth losing 38 men. [....] Allen’s account immediately raised questions about why U.S. commanders had sent so many troops, including such a large...

Working through contacts I managed to land an interview with the military working dog that accompanied the special operations forces during the raid on Osama bin Laden. The ground rules were that I could not mention his name or handler, but he told me to call him “Geronimo” because, as he explained, “Dogs appreciate irony.”

VIRGINIA BEACH – A judge today dismissed the first-degree murder charge against Navy SEAL Ronald Gasper, saying there was no evidence of premeditation. Even so, the jury could still convict Gasper of second-degree murder or manslaughter. It is not clear how that would affect his possible sentence. Gasper is accused of shooting to death a fellow SEAL, Bradley Jondahl, in 2004 after the two Navy men returned to Gasper’s apartment after a night of drinking. Gasper admits shooting Jondahl, but claims it was in self-defense. His attorney argued in court that Jondahl was in an angry, drunken rage when Gasper...