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Éric Jacopin
CREC Saint-Cyr
Écoles de Coëtquidan
F-56381 GUER Cedex
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U.S. officials said there were 22 people in the compound.
Five were killed, including Osama bin Laden. Pakistani officials gave conflicting reports
suggesting between 12 and 17 survivors. The Sunday Times subsequently published excerpts
from a pocket guide, presumably dropped by the SEALs during the raid, containing pictures
and descriptions of likely compound residents.The guide listed several adult children of
bin Laden and their families who were not ultimately found in the compound.
Because of a lack of verifiable information, some of what follows is thinly sourced.
5 adults dead: Osama bin Laden, 54;
Khalid, his son by Siham (identified as Hamza in early accounts), 23;
Arshad Khan, a.k.a. Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, the courier,
described as the "flabby" one by The Sunday Times, 33;
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti's brother Abrar, 30; and Bushra, Abrar's wife, age unknown.
4 surviving women: Khairiah, bin Laden's third, Saudi wife a.k.a. Um Hamza, 62;
Siham, bin Laden's fourth, Saudi wife a.k.a. Um Khalid, 54;
Amal, bin Laden's fifth, Yemeni wife, a.k.a. Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, 29 (injured);
and Mariam, Arshad Khan's Pakistani wife.
5 minor children of Osama and Amal: Safia, a daughter, 12;
a son, 5;
another son, age unknown;
and infant twin daughters.
4 bin Laden grandchildren from an unidentified daughter
who had been killed in an airstrike in Waziristan.
Two may be the boys, around 10, who spoke to Pakistani investigators.
4 children of Arshad Khan: Two sons, Abdur Rahman and Khalid, 6 or 7;
a daughter, age unknown;
and another child, age unknown.
The raid was carried out by approximately two dozen heliborne U.S. Navy SEALs
from the Red Squadron of the Joint Special Operations Command's U.S.
Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU). For legal reasons (namely that
the U.S. was not at war with Pakistan), the military personnel assigned to the mission were
temporarily transferred to the control of the civilian Central Intelligence Agency.
The DEVGRU SEALs operated in two teams and were reportedly equipped
with Heckler & Koch 416 carbine military assault rifles and Heckler & Koch MP7
personal defense weapons (with attached suppressors), night-vision goggles,
body armor and handguns.
According to The New York Times, a total of "79 commandos and a dog" were involved in the raid.
The military working dog was a Belgian Malinois named Cairo.
According to one report, the dog was tasked with tracking "anyone who tried to escape
and to alert SEALs to any approaching Pakistani security forces". The dog was to be used
to help deter any Pakistani ground response to the raid and to help look for any hidden rooms
or hidden doors in the compound. Additional personnel on the mission included a language
translator, the dog handler, helicopter pilots, "tactical signals, intelligence collectors,
and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers".
Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer, Ce jour-là, Seuil, Planche n°1 entre page 224 & 225.
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Mark Owen & Kevin Maurer, Ce jour-là, Seuil, Planche n°8 entre page 224 & 225.
(2012 – 151 min)
Navy SEAL Who Shot Osama bin Laden Reviews Zero Dark Thirty In Time for Oscar Voting
By Julie Miller
5:00 PM, February 11 2013
He laughs at the beginning of the film about the bin Laden hunt when the screen reads,
“Based on firsthand accounts of actual events.”
As the action moves toward the mission itself, I ask the Shooter whether his heart is beating
Faster. “No,” he says matter-of-factly. But when a SEAL Team 6 movie character yells,
“Breacher!” for someone to blow one of the doors of the Abbottabad compound,
the Shooter says loudly, “Are you fucking kidding me? Shut up!”
He explains afterward that no one would ever yell, “Breacher!” during an assault.
Deadly silence is standard practice, a fist to the helmet sufficient signal for a SEAL
with explosive packets to go to work.
But his criticisms at dinner afterward are minor. “The tattoo scene was horrible,” he says about
a moment in the film when the ST6 assault group is lounging in Afghanistan waiting to go.
“Those guys had little skulls or something instead of having some real ink that goes up to here.”
He points to his shoulder blade.
The tactics on the screen “sucked,” he says, and
“the mission in the damn movie took way too long” compared with the actual event.
the stairs inside bin Laden’s building were configured inaccurately.
a dog in the film was a German shepherd; the real one was a Belgian Malinois
who’d previously been shot in the chest and survived.
And there’s no talking on the choppers in real life.
The SEAL did have some praise for the film, however, especially when it came to
Jessica Chastain’s “awesome” portrayal of an inspired-by-a-real-person character,
Maya: “They made her a tough woman, which she is.”
Overall, though, it seems as though the SEAL had more practical expectations of the film
than Congressman Courtney did, concluding that “[i]t was fun to watch. There was just little stuff.”
In addition to pointing out a few of the other technical inaccuracies—
“they talked way, way too much [during the assault itself].
If someone was waiting for you, they could track your movements that way”—
the SEAL explained,
“They Hollywooded it up some.”