by Alexander George | Aug 1, 2014 | Monitor
Here’s the scenario: After suiting up with diving knives and silenced assault rifles, a team of three Navy SEALs on a submarine prepare to head to shore for a sneak attack. They put on their scuba gear and climb into a vessel that shaped like a torpedo and not...
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 9, 2012 | Monitor
A screenshot of Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Courtesy: Electronic Arts In February, movie audiences thrilled to Act of Valor, a big-budget Hollywood film starring actual Navy SEALs. Next month comes Zero Dark Thirty, a major recreation of the raid that killed Osama bin...
by David Axe | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
The guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge tows the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer on April 13, 2009. Photo: U.S. Navy On April 8, 2009, four pirates armed with AK-47s clambered up the side of the U.S.-flagged container ship...
by Noah Shachtman | Oct 10, 2012 | Monitor
A model of Osama bin Laden’s compound, found on Bing. Photo: Microsoft A top-secret base in Taiwan, revealed on Apple Maps. The Navy SEALs’ rehearsal site for the Osama bin Laden raid, found on Bing. Once again, commercial satellites have snapped images of...
by Noah Shachtman | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
Osama bin Laden films an undated propaganda video. Photo: CIA Before SEAL Team 6 was sent into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden, the troops were given a cover story, in case the mission went south. They were supposed to say that they were deep in Pakistani territory,...