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War and Conflict • SEAL Team 6 member who killed bin Laden left with a ‘go f***
Report: SEAL Team 6 member who killed bin Laden left with a ‘go f*** yourself’ from government
1:19 PM 02/11/2013
The SEAL Team 6 member who killed Osama bin Laden is facing an uncertain future after leaving the service and receiving a “go fuck yourself” from the government, an Esquire article about the unnamed hero reveals.
“I left SEALs on Friday,” the unnamed SEAL told author Phil Bronstein last September. He exited a little over three years short of the 20-year retirement requirement. “My health care for me and my family stopped at midnight Friday night.”
“I asked if there was some transition from my Tricare to Blue Cross Blue Shield. They said no,” the SEAL told Bronstein, executive chairman of the Center for Investigative Reporting. “You’re out of the service, your coverage is over. Thanks for your sixteen years. Go fuck yourself.”
Bronstein reports that after leaving the service and killing the nation’s most wanted man the SEAL is left with “nothing. No pension, no health care, and no protection for himself or his family.”
The report details the raid and some of its ironies: politicians and film stars have profited both monetarily and politically, but given the secrecy of the mission, the SEAL cannot even use his greatest accomplishment to get another job.
“He’s taken monumental risks,” his dad told Bronstein. “But he’s unable to reap any reward.”
Without a stable income, the shooter told Bronstein — between details of the harrowing kill mission — he still has bills and remains concerned about the safety of his family.
“I just want to be able to pay all those bills, take care of my kids, and work from there,” he is quoted as saying. “I’d like to take the things I learned and help other people in any way I can.”
Bronstein goes in depth into the raid with the SEAL with details such as what he was thinking as he was flown into the compound. “Instead of counting, for some reason I said to myself the George Bush 9/11 quote: Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. I could just hear his voice, and that was neat. I started saying it again and again to myself. Then I started to get pumped up. I’m like: This is so on.”
He said he gave the female CIA analyst who whose intelligence work lead them to bin Laden the remaining magazine from his rifle.
And he recalled what Osama looked like after he was shot.
“And I remember as I watched him
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Biblical • Ancient Jewish rituals confirmed by discovery of purity seal
JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists said on Sunday they had found a 2,000-year-old clay seal near Jerusalem’s Western Wall, confirming written accounts of ritual practices in the biblical Jewish Temple.
The button-shaped object bears the Aramaic words “pure for God,” suggesting it was used to certify food and animals used in sacrificial ceremonies.
The Western Wall is part of the compound revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, where Islam’s al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock shrine now stand in a holy complex Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary.
“It seems that the inscribed object was used to mark products or objects that were brought to the Temple, and it was imperative they be ritually pure,” the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement announcing the find.
The authority said it believed it was the first time such a seal had been excavated, providing direct archaeological evidence of ritual activity in the temple described in ancient texts.
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