SEAL Team 6, the CIA and the secret history of US kill missions in Afghanistan - Washington Post
military focused heavily on the Iraq war in 2006, the general in charge of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) noticed something alarming: The Taliban was regrouping in Afghanistan, and the United States didn’t have the manpower... McChrystal, responded by unleashing the Naval Special Warfare Development Group — popularly known as SEAL Team 6 — on a variety of missions in which the unit wouldn’t have typically been involved, according to an investigative report published by... [ SEAL leaders warn troops about being ‘selfish’ and disclosing operations ]. “No figures are publicly available that break out the number of raids that Team 6 carried out in Afghanistan or their toll,” the Times reported. But between 2006 and 2008, Team 6 operators said, there were intense periods in which for weeks at a time their unit logged 10 to 15 kills on many nights, and sometimes up to 25. ”. The report, long-rumored in the Pentagon and U. S. intelligence... SEAL Team 6 members joined with the CIA in something known as the Omega Program, which hunted down Taliban fighters with fewer restrictions than other military units, the Times reported. Together, they performed “deniable operations” in Pakistan using a model with similarities to the Phoenix Program, a Vietnam-era effort in which Special Operations troops performed interrogations and assassinations, the newspaper reported. Source: www.washingtonpost.com
