NEW YORK: 25 SEALs, a Pakistani-American translator, and a dog named
Cairo comprising the team that hunted Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden on
May 1 in Abbotabad, a New Yorker reveals.
There were 25 Navy
SEALS aboard the two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters that raided bin
Laden’s Abbottabad compound, an article published on news.yahoo.com on
Monday said.
They were accompanied by a Pakistani-American
translator (Schmidle gives him the pseudonym "Ahmed"), and a Belgian
Malinois dog named Cairo, according to the publication.
The
report added that the SEALs were from Team Six, "which is officially
known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU".
The
report says that a bullet, struck bin Laden in the chest and as he fell
backward, the SEAL fired a second round into his head, just above his
left eye.
The body who fired bullets against OBL directly
reported on his radio, ’For God and country—Geronimo, Geronimo,
Geronimo.’ After a pause, he added, ’Geronimo E.K.I.A.’—’enemy killed
in action.’ According to the report, Bin Laden’s code name was
’Crankshaft’. Geronimo’ was to signify that bin Laden had been found.
The
report also claim that after the raid US president Obama visited the
special group headquarters in America but never ask name of the person
who fired on OBL. It further claim that the president met the dog which
was part of the operation.
Many of the details of the mission
have been shrouded in operational secrecy until now and this is the
reason that laymen in Pakistan doubts the degree of truth in the raid
in Abbotabad. Online
