The SEALS didn’t see any weapons but they decided to interrupt the convoy due to their suspicions about a man’s white garb.Ĭhinook helicopters were flying over the convoy and Operation Bull was put into action. On March 6, The team was desperately trying to find terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and they saw on drone footage a convoy of cars on the move in the Shah-i-Kot Valley in Afghanistan’s Paktia province. He was stranded and the helicopter was shot at by al-Qaeda fighters.Īccording to The Intercept, the helicopter couldn’t return for Roberts until two hours later, by that time he was dead and had been shot in the head at close range by the enemy shortly after he fell out the helicopter.Īccording to The Intercept, the revenge all started in March 2002, after Roberts was killed. SEAL Team 6’s Red Team were travelling over Takur Ghar, a high mountain in the Arma Mountains in southeastern Afghanistan in March 2002.Īl-Qaeda fighters were on the mountain top and as the SEALS got ready to fight, Roberts fell about three metres from a helicopter.
The death of SEAL officer Neil Roberts led to the mentality that the enemy had to suffer.Īccording to The Intercept, he was the first member of SEAL Team 6 to be killed in the Afghan war after 9/11. The team of officers were painted as heroes, but according to The Intercept - who conducted a two-year investigation, interviewing 18 current and former SEALS - officers on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan began seeking serious revenge on their enemies, leading them to commit some dark acts. SEAL Team 6 was the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and was part of a team that took down Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. AN EXPLOSIVE investigation claims Navy SEAL Team 6 had a dark side and some officers committed war crimes including beheadings and mutilations while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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