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5-On-A-Toboggan t1_itkra0q wrote

Reply to comment by Holinyx in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc

We're not supposed to conduct assassinations. Since 1976, every U.S. president has upheld Ford's prohibition on assassinations, BUT both Democrat and Republican administrations have been weaseling around this ever since.

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PuckSR t1_itld07k wrote

The prohibition is against assassinations: e.g. killing legitimate political leaders.

Osama bin Laden was very clearly not a political leader and killing him did not constitute an assassination.

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5-On-A-Toboggan t1_itltow7 wrote

What's the rationale behind Gaddafi then?

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PuckSR t1_itlyh8g wrote

We assassinated Gaddafi in your mind?

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5-On-A-Toboggan t1_itlz9cg wrote

"We came, we saw, he died."

Hillary Clinton

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PuckSR t1_itlzr8h wrote

I mean, there is a video. I dont see any US military operators

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5-On-A-Toboggan t1_itm0co4 wrote

Proxy assassinations are nothing new. A bunch of failed attempts on Castro were similar for the thin veneer of plausible deniability it would have granted the US.

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PuckSR t1_itm1aex wrote

You are proposing that an unpopular dictator who was literally stabbed by a throng of people may have been killed secretly by proxies of the US govt?

Not following the theory. So, they could have just told about a million different people where he was located and they would have tried to kill him. But that isn't exactly assassination.

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5-On-A-Toboggan t1_itmgkpp wrote

NATO intercepted a satellite phone call from Gaddafi which pinpointed his fleeing in a convoy. NATO aircraft and a US predator drone, piloted remotely from the US, fired on Gaddafi's convoy crippling it so that he could be taken out by Libyans. None of this is conspiracy; it's the official narrative.

'We found him, handcuffed him, and threw him in the tiger cage, but it was the tiger that did the deed, not us.'

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litux t1_ittkxz0 wrote

Huh, TIL.

I had no idea that the convoy was stopped by NATO aircraft.

Although, since you mentioned the official narrative...

> According to their statement, NATO was not aware at the time of the strike that Gaddafi was in the convoy. NATO stated that, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, it does not target individuals, but only military assets that pose a threat. NATO later learned "from open sources and Allied intelligence" that Gaddafi was in the convoy and that the strike was likely to have contributed to his capture and therefore his death. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muammar_Gaddafi

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Holinyx t1_itm7wec wrote

lol his own people put in in the trunk of a car and then stabbed and shot him. Watching the video of it was quite surreal.

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