Bissonnette had not submitted the book, which gives his account of the bin laden raid, for. Geronimo was the code name for bin laden, and ekia stands for enemy killed in action. Give this piece of military deathporn a wide berth and wait for kathryn bigelows version. A chronicle of the decadelong hunt for alqaeda terrorist leader osama bin laden after the september 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the navy s.
Killing bin laden, joining the navy seals, life after and his new book duration. A new book above details how a navy seal shot osama bin laden code name. Geronimo was to signify that bin laden had been found. Navy seals firsthand account of osama bin ladens death. Hours after the geronimo code name was reported, reports suggested that white house officials had revised the story, saying geronimo was a general. How seal team six took out osama bin laden history. Operation neptune spear the killing of osama bin laden.
Completed in february 2011, the book is currently at press and comes on the heels of the capture and killing of osama bin laden, also known as geronimo ekia enemy killed in action. Code name geronimo controversy military wiki fandom. The americans chose the code name of a native american warrior chief in the operation to kill osama bin laden. Native american leaders are upset that geronimos name was used as code for osama bin laden.
I n the weeks following the raid on osama bin ladens compound in abbottabad, pakistan, by united states forces, u. These words, spoken by a navy seal, ended osama bin ladens reign of terror. Book on bin laden raid is a fabrication, says us special. Code names can provide some insight into what an agency is thinking. Geronimo, which is the other osama bin laden movie, directed by. One signifier of this is that initially bin laden issued a fatwa 23 february 1998 in conjunction with islamic leaders copingersymes, 2003, p. Seal who killed bin laden details the mission in new book. The second seal shoots bin laden in the chest and the head and then reports, via radio, for god and country, geronimo, geronimo, geronimo. The controversial book no easy day, written by a nowouted navy seal, reveals the tools he took with him on the raid to get osama bin laden.
As osama bin laden came into their line of sight, a navy seal secretly reported back to the white house situation room that he had spotted geronimo, using. The al qaeda leader osama bin laden, killed in pakistan by u. When the rumored whereabouts of osama bin laden are revealed, the cia readies a team of seasoned u. Seal target geronimo and millions of other books are available for instant access. Geronimo raid this transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate. Native americans object to linking geronimo to bin laden. In pfarrers account, the total time elapsed from jumping on the roof to osama bin. Though the navy seal team storming into bin ladens pakistan compound referred to the al qaeda leader as geronimo, pentagon and cia analysts knew him by a. Osama bin laden by michael scheuer, paperback barnes. The official mission code name was operation neptune spear45 a reference to the trident in the seal insignia, with jackpot as the code name for bin laden as an individual and geronimo as the code word for bin ladens capture or death. The osama bin laden file national security archive. The code name geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the u. After the bin laden hideout was located in abbottad, pakistan, president obama met with national security top advisers to formulate a plan of action. Winona laduke explores the militarization of indian.
No one cared about osama bin laden when i started writing it, so i wrote it as a travelogue because i assumed that that was the only way to get people interested in. Native americans are understandably pissed off after the u. After 911 you explained the worldview of osama bin laden to others in. As president barack obama and his team sat on tenterhooks in the situation room, the cia.
The code name for the operation to capture osama bin laden is thought to have been geronimo. When president obama brought the search for osama bin laden to an end, it was with a roll of the dice. Osama bin laden, the founder and first leader of the islamist terrorist group, al qaeda, was. Osama bin laden operation ended with coded message. The raid on osama bin laden will be released on the national geographic channel on november 4, 2012 and netflix on november 5. Mark bowdens new book, the finish, tells of the hunt for osama bin laden from the top down based on access to obama. One well told event in this book will always stick in my mind. By giving osama bin laden the code name of the great american indian chief geronimo, the pentagon has unnecessarily raised the ire of native americans and stirred up unpleasant memories. Seal team six raided an alqaeda compound in abbottabad, pakistan, in may 2011 and killed the worlds most wanted terrorist. From the tragedy of september 11, 2001, to the events that brought a global search for one of the most notorious fugitives in modern times to a dramatic end, killing geronimo is the compelling graphic retelling of the hunt for alqaeda leader osama bin laden.
The most provocative part of the book is pure speculation. The first indication for president obama that osama bin laden had been killed came when a navy seal sent back the coded message to washington that said simply, geronimoe kia. Robert oneill, the former navy seal credited with killing osama bin laden in 2011, has revealed the intense details of the fateful mission in a controversial new book. This remark bookended president bushs statement to a joint session of. In an adaptation from the authors new book, indepth interviews with obama and other. I found it offensive to conflate geronimo with bin laden by using that as the codename regardless of ones feelings about osama b. A wife of bin laden called him by name during the raid, inadvertently. Whether it was intended only to name the military operation to kill or capture osama bin laden or to give osama bin laden himself the code name geronimo, either was an outrageous insult and. Intelligence linked a courier to a large compound in pakistan. Bin ladens geronimo code name questioned fort worth weekly.
The best books on osama bin laden five books expert. This books content adds a bit more drama to bin ladens previous news stories because they include private covert operations carried out during the past few decades, whereas alqaeda spawned terrorists to commit atrocities of deaths and destruction, on land, air and sea. He was initially located after us intelligence officials tracked one of his couriers after almost two decades of the manhunt. Press reports claimed that geronimo was used in the raid to refer to bin laden himself, but this was later contradicted by.
The hunt for osama bin laden and millions of other books are. That was the call that went over the command net on may 1, indicating that navy seals had found their man. Geronimo was the code name for the operation that sent two teams of 12 seals zooming by blackhawk helicopters to a walled compound in abbotabad, pakistan, on sunday to. But, as samira ahmed writes, geronimo did more than evade capture. The hearing was scheduled well before the osama bin laden operation became news, but the concerns over the linking of the name of geronimo, one. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin laden is inside the compound, and ignoring the possible ramifications of an unannounced. A group of navy seals comes to learn the identity of their target. With jessica chastain, joel edgerton, chris pratt, mark strong. Syracuses the poststandard reports that onondaga nation leaders blasted the code name as reprehensible. What no easy day reveals about navy seal gear osama bin. Why was it named after one of the bestknown native americans. Geronimo bravely and heroically defended his homeland and his people, eventually surrendering and living out.
The seal team leader radioed, for god and countrygeronimo, geronimo. Geronimo was worlds most wanted terrorist osama bin laden. Out of government scheuer has continued to be one of the most original and thoughtful interpreters of bin laden and al qaeda, and in this volume he has distilled his decade and half of thinking about them to great effect, synthesizing a large body of literature to produce a portrait of bin laden. John stockwell directs this tense action drama documenting the covert mission undertaken by a us navy seal team to capture or kill osama bin laden.
Geronimo ekia is what special forces said when osama bin laden was killed. I respect their concern, but i dont think this particular reference is the insult tribal leaders think. Chuck pfarrers book seal target geronimo claims the stealth helicopter involved in the raid on bin ladens compound on may 2, 2011, crashed later than the white house reported in. When the code name for bin laden was revealed, native american groups sat up and took notice.