FoxNews.com is reporting that a new book by Chuck Pfarrer, the former commander of the Seal Team that conducted the mission, says the men who killed the al-Zaeda chief decided to speak out because they are tired of their "shabby treatment" by politicians who claim they were on a "kill mission."
"I've been a Seal for 30 years and I never heard the words 'kill mission'," Pffarer says. "It's a fantasy word. If it was a kill mission you don’t need Seal Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades."
His book, entitled Seal Target Geronimo, reveals many other details about the now famous mission that starkly contradict the White House version.
For instance, Pfarrer says the president was not nearly as engaged in the mission as he portrays and was actually playing golf until 20 minutes before it was completed. Obama deliberately stayed on the golf course in order to distance himself just in case the mission went bad.
"If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow," Pfarrer writes.
Members of Seal Team 6 are also upset by the official account of the mission and the so-called protracted gunfight which makes them to be cold-blooded killers. In reality, there was no lengthy gun-fight in the Pakistani compound where Bin Laden was living. Only 12 shots were fired and Bin Laden was dead within 90 seconds of their arrival. The Seals also say they would have captured him alive if he had surrendered.
They were also disappointed in the president for announcing Bin Laden's death on television just hours after the May 1 mission was complete.
"There isn't a politician in the world who could resist trying to take credit for getting Bin Laden but it devalued the 'intel' and gave time for every other Al-Qaeda leader to scurry to another bolthole," he said.
"The men who did this and their valorous act deserve better. It's a pretty shabby way to treat these guys."
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