Don't read the link or click the spoilers if you don't want/can't stand the gory details.
I personally don't care what they did to the body really beyond two things (if true of course, this could easily just be a $$$$ grab): 1) purposefully mutilating an adversary's corpse shows some signs of untreated mental illness that needs to be addressed before something far more unfortunate happens by the mutilators in question, hopefully they got some time with the shrink and a lot of leave before going back into a war zone and 2) when it leaks (like now) it can be used as easy propaganda and ultimately more Americans end up killed. Other than that I have not one iota of sympathy for OBL and don't personally get offended by it.
I personally wish that rather than trumpeting his death like he was some great adversary like the Romans did their defeated enemies, they (not meaning SEALS here but the POTUS and military in general) would have just put a round or two in his head and unceremoniously moved on to the next mission. And treated him like the nothing he really was.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/navys...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
An unnamed point man and O'Neill proceeded up to the third floor. After they burst into bin Laden's bedroom, the point man tackled two women, thinking they might have suicide vests, as O'Neill fired at the Al Qaeda founder.
"In less than a second, I aimed above the woman's right shoulder and pulled the trigger twice," he wrote, according to the New York Daily News. "Bin Laden's head split open, and he dropped. I put another bullet in his head. Insurance."
There is some dispute over who fired the fatal shots, but most accounts are that O'Neill shot bin Laden in the head at some point. According to a deeply reported article in The Intercept, O'Neill "canoed" the head of bin Laden, delivering a series of shots that split open his forehead into a V shape.
O'Neill's book says the operators had to press bin Laden's head back together to take identifying photos. But that wasn't the end of the mutilation of bin Laden's body, according to Jack Murphy of SOFREP, a special-operations news website.
Two sources told Murphy in 2016 that several SEALs took turns dumping round after round into bin Laden's body, which ended up having more than 100 bullet holes in it.
Murphy, a former Army Ranger, called it "beyond excessive."
"The picture itself would likely cause an international scandal, and investigations would be conducted which could uncover other operations, activities which many will do anything to keep buried," he wrote.
"In less than a second, I aimed above the woman's right shoulder and pulled the trigger twice," he wrote, according to the New York Daily News. "Bin Laden's head split open, and he dropped. I put another bullet in his head. Insurance."
There is some dispute over who fired the fatal shots, but most accounts are that O'Neill shot bin Laden in the head at some point. According to a deeply reported article in The Intercept, O'Neill "canoed" the head of bin Laden, delivering a series of shots that split open his forehead into a V shape.
O'Neill's book says the operators had to press bin Laden's head back together to take identifying photos. But that wasn't the end of the mutilation of bin Laden's body, according to Jack Murphy of SOFREP, a special-operations news website.
Two sources told Murphy in 2016 that several SEALs took turns dumping round after round into bin Laden's body, which ended up having more than 100 bullet holes in it.
Murphy, a former Army Ranger, called it "beyond excessive."
"The picture itself would likely cause an international scandal, and investigations would be conducted which could uncover other operations, activities which many will do anything to keep buried," he wrote.
I personally don't care what they did to the body really beyond two things (if true of course, this could easily just be a $$$$ grab): 1) purposefully mutilating an adversary's corpse shows some signs of untreated mental illness that needs to be addressed before something far more unfortunate happens by the mutilators in question, hopefully they got some time with the shrink and a lot of leave before going back into a war zone and 2) when it leaks (like now) it can be used as easy propaganda and ultimately more Americans end up killed. Other than that I have not one iota of sympathy for OBL and don't personally get offended by it.
I personally wish that rather than trumpeting his death like he was some great adversary like the Romans did their defeated enemies, they (not meaning SEALS here but the POTUS and military in general) would have just put a round or two in his head and unceremoniously moved on to the next mission. And treated him like the nothing he really was.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/navys...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
