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In a rare on-the-record denial, U.S. Special Operations Command has come forward to dispute the story told in a controversial new book exploring how al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden met his end at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALS.
Its just not true, said Col. Tim Nye, U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman of the account told in Chuck Pfarrers new book SEAL Target Geronimo.
Its not how it happened.
Pfarrer, a former Navy SEAL himself, says the Obama administration has a political interest in sticking to its guns, and that he has staked his career on the facts in his book.
I think its very important that the administration itself push back on this. They have never really come out with a complete story, said Pfarrer, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller. The story they did come out with was a series of factoids: a 45-minute firefight, the deliberate wounding of a woman, a groundup assault, trying to explain how a helicopter landed on the wrong side of a 20-foot wall and a 10-foot steel gate.
Pfarrer,whose tale rejects each of those claims,says that the Administration's story told most comprehensively by The New Yorker was born of haphazard political expedience.
Read more: bin Laden Raid | Obama | Tim Nye | The Daily Caller
Its just not true, said Col. Tim Nye, U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman of the account told in Chuck Pfarrers new book SEAL Target Geronimo.
Its not how it happened.
Pfarrer, a former Navy SEAL himself, says the Obama administration has a political interest in sticking to its guns, and that he has staked his career on the facts in his book.
I think its very important that the administration itself push back on this. They have never really come out with a complete story, said Pfarrer, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller. The story they did come out with was a series of factoids: a 45-minute firefight, the deliberate wounding of a woman, a groundup assault, trying to explain how a helicopter landed on the wrong side of a 20-foot wall and a 10-foot steel gate.
Pfarrer,whose tale rejects each of those claims,says that the Administration's story told most comprehensively by The New Yorker was born of haphazard political expedience.
Read more: bin Laden Raid | Obama | Tim Nye | The Daily Caller