Navy SEALs 'took turns dumping HUNDREDS of bullets' into Osama bin Laden's dead body, a new report

[Tony_FLADEM]

reveals

Special operations sources have claimed that the terror leader was shot more than one hundred times in the fatal 2011 raid.

A new report from a website known within the intelligence and armed services community claims that the sheer number of times that Osama bin Laden was shot is the reason why the government has never released photos of his dead body.

Citing two confidential sources, The Special Operations Forces Situation Report tells how 'operator after operator took turns dumping magazines-worth of ammunition into Bin Laden’s body'.

The site goes on to argue that while the Navy SEALs may have felt it was 'morally, legally, and ethically appropriate to shoot the body a few times to ensure that he is really dead and no longer a threat,' that does not justify the extent of this damage.

'What happened on the Bin Laden raid is beyond excessive. The level of excess shown was not about making sure that Bin Laden was no longer a threat. The excess was pure self-indulgence,' author Jack Murphy writes.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581354/Navy-SEALs-took-turns-dumping-HUNDREDS-bullets-Osama-bin-Ladens-dead-body-new-report-reveals.html#ixzz2w68NO3xW
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[1000words]

1. Uh, huh ...

[yuiyoshida]

2. Bullets cost money...

I am sure the COMPANY that makes bullets were very happy.

[bluestateguy]

3. Um, OK thank you

Meanwhile, were still waiting on the Congress to raise the minimum wage, extend unemployment benefits and pass an immigration bill.

[Mojorabbit]

4. Immature and unprofessional. nt

[rudolph the red]

5. I don't believe a word of that

I was just a support guy in the Marines, but I worked hard supporting Force Recon and SEAL Teams and I know a lot of them very well. They are far too professional to behave that way, particularly on a mission of such great importance and visibility.

[dogknob]

24. You got all of that out with a straight face, too. That was very disciplined.

[rudolph the red]

25. You're right,

movies are much more accurate than real life.

[dogknob]

30. That is a very interesting response.

Since I only posted a clip of the film, with no explanation -- I certainly made no assertion that a Frank Sinatra movie has anything at all to do with reality-- you must have your own idea of why I did it.

Please share your idea with us.

[rudolph the red]

31. Your comment implied that i was lying, then you posted a YouTube clip.

Take a deep analytical look at that.

[dogknob]

33. That's just silly. I live in San Clemente, CA near Camp Pendleton...

...and I get to witness firsthand the professionalism and superlative ethical and moral standards of hundreds of U.S. Marines on a daily basis -- daily meaning all day and all night. Every single day.

[rudolph the red]

34. Yeah? I'm south of you about 30 miles,

I still don't get your point, but Hi Neighbour!

[Desert805]

57. No point-- just snark.

Hellooooo San Diego!

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Not believable and here's why:

Aside from the fact that I doubt they operate that way, would they really hang around in hostile territory longer than necessary to line up and empty clips into a dead guy and risk being engaged by hostiles.

[BlueMTexpat]

8. Good point. eom

[anneboleyn]

55. Exactly! the timeline was very strict, and "hundreds of rounds" would also make noise, plus the ID

of the body still needed to be made officially. It seems unlikely that the SEAL team would have spent time doing this -- given that they needed to be in and out quickly (plus the body needed to be bagged and moved -- this is kind of macabre but given the fact that the body needed to be transported back, pumping it full of hundreds of rounds of bullets could severely compromise the integrity of the body and just make an enormous, very difficult-to-maneuver mess). The SEAL team (based on what we know) did not have time to waste in such a manner.

[demosincebirth]

7. I don't believe it.

[MrScorpio]

9. "Is he dead yet?" "Nope, let's kill him some more."

"Is he dead yet?"

"Nope, he was twitching."

"Is dead yet…"

[Behind the Aegis]

10. I always hate when the title doesn't match the article.

Stinky!

[PlanetaryOrbit]

11. I doubt it.

They were in dangerous surroundings. They needed to conserve ammo.

[Separation]

12. +100 bullets

Is an unamed source who knows a guy that drank a bear with some guys that claimed to be SEALS.

[yuiyoshida]

43. hahaha...

Drinking a "bear" would be a very painful and difficult thing to do... you would have to be awfully drunk to do that.

[bluesbassman]

13. Yeah, well the source of this "report" is one Jack Murphy...

A former Army Ranger Spec Ops vet who now writes for sofrep.com. The article that Sgt. Murphy wrote relied on two "confidential" sources "within the community". That the Daily Mail referred to it as a "new report" is a flat out lie. At best it's hearsay.

A quick tour around sofrep.com gives a little better picture of where Sgt. Murphy and his friends are coming from. (Hint: They're not too found of President Obama. Surprise! )
http://sofrep.com/33599/why-us-govt-hasnt-released-photos-ubl-corpse/

[Orrex]

14. I heard that it was 500 guys who each fired one bullet into the corpse

True fact.

[jsr]

18. And then they lined up again to stab him with knives

"See, this is the knife I killed Osama bin Laden with," says Grandpa...

[SCUBANOW]

15. I call BS on this story.

The SEALs had more important things to do that night then standing around and shoot a dead body. They were not on the ground for very long to play these kind of games. Again I call BS.

[sorefeet]

16. Now if they were talking about

any big city American police department, this story would be believable.

[Mugu]

17. Even if they did,

I don't care.

[jwirr]

19. Childish.

[MineralMan]

20. Unsourced claptrap.

Unnamed sources and an inflammatory website. Why is this even posted on DU and why did the Daily Mail publish it?

[Bluenorthwest]

36. Why did the Daily Mail publish it? Why does FoxNews cheer for Republicans?

It's the Daily Fail. It's a Conservative tabloid.

[uncommonlink]

21. I call bullshit.

Seals aren't going to stand around pumping bullet after bullet into a dead body, in hostile terrority, limited amount of ammo, possibly hostile forces enroute.
That's just not the way Seals, or for that matter, any of our Special Forces operate. They're professionals, they get the job done and get out.

[madokie]

22. I don't think I believe this

I was a member of the SERE school where we trained the Seals and UDT in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape back in '68 and early '69. I don't buy this at all. sorry

[arely staircase]

23. yeah, because it isn't like they were in a hurry to get out of pakistan or anything nt

[Sunlei]

26. what a bunch of BS. dailymail is another tabloid media similar to fox.

[unblock]

27. more likely bin laden knew his time was up and shot himself 500 times.

he was probably pretty sure he was dead after the first 499, but shot himself

one more time

just to be sure.

[Lost_Count]

28. Doesn't pass the sniff test...

[Sunlei]

29. I don't think dailymail crap 'articles' should be allowed on DU or give tabloid media their own list

[karynnj]

32. Note - a tabloid speaking of unnamed "sources" on an unnamed website -speaking of a "report"

Note the "report" is from the unnamed website - not any credible source. Here is a google of the name of the website and "wiki" - hoping to get a definition without going there. It looks pretty sketchy - and a source for Glenn Beck! https://www.google.com/search?q=sofrep+wiki&oq=sofrep+wiki&aqs=chrome..69i57.6987j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

[Auntie Bush]

35. Nothing like spreading some more propaganda to irritate the

Muslims into a frenzy to kill more Americans. I really think this post should be eliminated.

[Ilsa]

37. That was my first thought.

And let's try to mar a tactical event that that proved that PBO wasn't soft on terrorism. Plays right into RW hands to try and find fault with the operation.

[bobduca]

45. Yeah ... consider the source, the DAILY MAIL...

[CJCRANE]

38. The Daily Mail has no quality control.

They pretty much accept any old BS story onto their website.

That can make for interesting reading but a lot of it is planted propaganda or just irresponsible and sloppy reporting.

[Rex]

39. I doubt it, there would be mush and no solid body.

IMO.

[Mojo Electro]

40. I don't know about this.

It seems to me like "hundreds" of the type of rounds fired by Navy Seals would turn the body into Hamburger Helper. Secondly. I'm sure that all the Seals were acutely aware of the importance of positive identification, and wouldn't want to be the one that jeopardized that. That, taken along with later descriptions of the body and of the burial at sea, makes this seem highly exaggerated. Maybe there was an extra few rounds to make sure he was down, but I don't know about everybody there pumping rounds into him for posterity. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Navy Seals are more disciplined than that.

[LiberalFighter]

41. I don't support the military unless they are professional and ethical

But I will also give the military the benefit of the doubt until otherwise called for.

In this regards, there is no confirmation or reliable support for the accusations.

I wonder if the next mission for the Navy SEALS might be the Daily Mail? At least put some fear into them.

[Rocknrule]

42. I'm pretty sure that after 100 bullets

he'd be nothing but 170 lbs of ground chuck and there'd be no body left to dump into the ocean

[WilliamPitt]

50. Right?

Master Sargent, get the spatula.

Oy.

[chrisa]

44. That would take probably 5 seconds to do, but this is the Daily Mail, so it probably never happened

in the first place.

[Throd]

46. I would have pissed on his corpse.

But then again, I'm not held to the same standards as a Navy SEAL.

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. Why is it that I do not buy this one?

[undeterred]

48. No, but they shot each of the children 100 times.

Just as believable.

[WilliamPitt]

49. In the middle of a hostile area with a crashed chopper after a firefight?

Yeah, I totally believe this.

Not.

[Demonaut]

51. thats disgusting...wasting that many bullets

[Baitball Blogger]

52. It never happened because it would have left messy evidence behind that

would have been used by Al Qaeda to rile up the masses.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. Boys will be boys. Did they pee on him also?

[CFLDem]

54. Probably not true

but it's nice to think about. Hope they took a nice steamy dump on him, too. 💩

[rppper]

56. I'm throwing the horsesh@t flag on this...

Two of the four submarines I served on were dedicated spec-ops boats...including the test bed boat for submarine/special forces ops after 1990...I'm the guy who let them in and out of the escape chambers...they would tell you some gruesome war stories, but it was all strictly line if duty stuff, not pumping 500+ additional rounds into a dead body on site. I seriously doubt they fired inside a helo or onboard an aircraft carrier with 6000 crew-members...none of the spec-ops teams, from any of the services, I ever assisted onboard showed anything but the utmost professionalism and seriousness towards their missions. The entire team probably carried just over 500 rounds between them. They're not heavily armored.

[Raine1967]

58. Conspiracy BS, IMO.

from your link:

A new report from a website known within the intelligence and armed services community claims that the sheer number of times that Osama bin Laden was shot is the reason why the government has never released photos of his dead body.

Citing two confidential sources, The Special Operations Forces Situation Report tells how 'operator after operator took turns dumping magazines-worth of ammunition into Bin Laden’s body'.

I find it all very skeptical.

The Special Operations Forces Situation Report page where they list the charities they support.

You'll see this:

The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation

Glen Doherty was one of the four Americans killed in a terror attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. The Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation is our way to honor Glen’s life and his beliefs.



Glen believed in education, improving oneself and building skills. He believed life should be earned by hard work and hard play. Celebrate this beautiful world that we live in, recreate as much as humanly possible. Help others, and surround yourself with people that you respect who challenge you and make you a better person. Through this Foundation our goal is to pay it forward, to spread Glen’s love and passion for life to as many individuals as possible.