US President Barack Obama vetoed the idea of a Seal 6 team tasked with killing Osama bin Laden surrendering if surrounded by Pakistani troops, instead, he planned to “rain hell” on the Pakistani military in such an eventuality, stirring new insights into the Abbottabad invasion that nailed the world’s No 1 terrorist have revealed.
An exhaustive account of the Abbottabad raid in Esquire magazine by Phil Bronstein, former Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, provides granular details of the foray based on interviews with the Seal 6 commando who shot bin Laden dead, identifying him merely as the “shooter”. Discussions during the planning stages looked at what would happen if they were surrounded by Pakistani troops. The original plan was to surrender and have Vice-President Joe Biden fly to Islamabad and negotiate their release.
But President Obama called it differently. “This is hearsay, but I understand Obama said, Hell no. My guys are not surrendering. What do we need to rain hell on the Pakistani military?” Bronstein paraphrases the shooter as saying. The commando also makes known his admiration for the president, “That was the one time in my life I was thinking, I am f***king voting for this guy. I had a picture of him lying in bed at night, thinking, You’re not f***king with my guys. Like, he’s thinking about us. “
The Seal 6 team later got word that the US would be scrambling jets on the border to back up the raiding party.
Obama was ready to ‘rain hell’ on Pakistan during bin Laden raid
