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Al Qaeda calls for death of Navy SEAL who authored book on bin Laden mission
Book cover for "No Easy Day," a first-person account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.
/ Dutton Adult(CBS News) Al Qaeda has wasted no time in calling for the death of the former Navy SEAL who has written a book under a pseudonym which his publisher Dutton calls a first person account of the death of Osama bin Laden.
A jihadist forum, al-Fidaa, located in Malaysia, posted the death calls and provided the author's name and photograph under a headline titled "First Image of One of the Dogs who killed Bin Laden." Dogs are considered unclean in Islam.
Al-Fidaa, which is also used by al Qaeda to recruit suicide bombers, posted comments by one member, Abu (father of, in Arabic) Dujanah al-Kinani, warning that the "lion's cubs," the mujahedeen (holy warriors), are now waiting for the right time to avenge bin laden's death. Usama means "lion" in Arabic. Ayman al-Zawahiri, the new leader of al-Qaeda has called bin Laden, "the lion of Islam." Jihadi online forums sometimes refer to Bin Laden as the "Lion of the Holy Jihad."
One posting on al-Fidaa called on Allah to kill the author sooner or later. Another member, in the thread, called on God to "make him a living example and let us witness his dark day."
Dutton is promoting the book, "No Easy Day," as the first inside account of "Operation Neptune Spear," the code name for the raid that took place on the night of May 1st, 2011. On that night, 23 Navy SEALS took off from Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border, in two MH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, flew undetected 120 miles into Pakistan to Abbottabad, a city two hours north of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan to the one acre compound where the CIA had determined that bin Laden was hiding.
(Watch: Ex-Navy SEAL pens controversial autobiography)
A day after the author announced that he is publishing the book Navy Admiral Bill McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, warned his troops, current and retired, that he would take legal action against anyone who exposed sensitive information that could cause fellow forces harm.
Dutton has been more worried that the author could be in physical danger. Today's posting show that al Qaeda knows the author's name and what he looks like.
The author's true name was disclosed by Fox News and later repeated by the Associated Press. CBS News does not identify members of the classified counter-terrorism units.
Jere Van Dyk, CBS terrorism consultant, is the author of "Captive, My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban," Times Books, 2010.
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I will admit it must have been quite a ride on the whirlybirds!
Interesting that the sailors don't like Obama. Wonder why Obama gave the sailors a mission like this rather than soldiers who normally do these missions in the mountains.
The real author of course was Kevin Maurer.. He better watch his back it seems..
Fox News and the AP did not do a good thing. They fed a fellow American Soldier to the enemy and put his Family in danger.
May GOD Protect this Brother is Arms / Soldier and Fellow American Patriot.
Someone somewhere is at the controls of a predator looking for the Authors of those recent death threats, who will get who first, that's not even a question.
Oh Yea, before I forget, Screw Fox News and everything affiliated with it.
Am I the only one to see this?
And as I see Fox only has One View theirs they do not care who they expose or what they expose them to be it embaresswment or Possible Death all they care about is really nothing that I can see.
To me it seems they would sell out the American People and it's Goverment just to get ratings.
I now find 5they care nothing for the American People or their Goverment so long as they are ahead in ratings.
Is Fox News even an American News Station ?
Or are they own by a Country seeking to Undermine or Harm us?
I mean Fox Broadcasting was one of my Faves.
But now I am starting to wonder after they Hung this man out to dry or Die.
Depending how things progress if this Youngman Dies because they gave him up then Fox has a lot to Answer for!
Think it Through People if this man is Killed by Al Quadia then Fox Is Not only UnAmerican it is Against all we Hold Dear!
Because they care nothing about Americans but their own rting points and nothing more we are points and nothing more no matter how many Friends,Family Fathers, Sons,Mothers. Daughters Or Motyhers we lose I beg you Prove Me Wrong that is if you can!
In my Eyes Fox Is so UnAmerican I can No longer watch it.
To me it is a dead Channel not worth viewing any more!
All of these 'terrorist' names are well acquaited in our Intel-agencies, even the MeK (Mujihadeen) are at times handy, perhaps why Hillary Clinton turned over an old military base in Iraq to these MeK-Mujihadeen formed killers of US soldiers.
Until someone puts an end to the private-military of US President's (CIA-Paramilitary... Constitutional???), these things will continue to be a problem for someone... or another.