I'm in two minds about this.
On one hand , I am glad he's dead , he did deserve to die plus it may weaken Al Quaida temporarily.
On the other , they shouldn't have killed him straight away , I mean they could have interrogated the guy and found out more about the Al Quaida operations THEN execute him if they must.
Idk I just thnk there was information to be obtained from his capture rather than the gratification of his death.
I believe the orders were bring him in alive if possible. The fact was that he resisted and there was a shoot out. Better to have killed him while getting an opportunity
than risk him loose another ten years. I wonder what will happen to the 25 million bounty that was on his head? will that go to whoever fired the shot?
True , but I can't shake the feeling that someone was a tad trigger happy.
*whispers to squiddeh...Americano's - they never slow on the trigger?
We're talking about SEAL Team Six here. They're the very best of the best, the most professional of the professional.
If it was possible to take him alive, he'd be alive today.
I have heard the American Seal teams are bloody good.
Heard the Australian SAS were the best of the best though " Lt. Gen. Frank Hagenbeck (US Military), Coalition Commander in Afghanistan, had to say about the Australian SAS during "Operation Anaconda" --
LT GEN FRANK HAGENBECK: You had to have someone there on the ground that could see and hear and smell and pick up the sense of the battlefield of what was going on and we were very much dependent upon the Aussies, certainly in that part of the battlefield....I tell you, I would not have wanted to do that operation without the Australian SAS's folks on that ridge line. I mean, they made it happen that day....The Australian SAS displayed those kinds of things that make them the elite, in my view, of small unit infantry men throughout the world. And that's autonomy, independence, tenacity that they will never ever be defeated. "
Then against I have heard that there have been similar things said about British SAS, French Foreign Legion and Spetsnaz. I understand too that the Indian special forces and Candian Special forces are top notch.