Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden

CHERRY:
What do you want me

to talk about?

I mean...we trained

just like we always trained

for any other mission, you know.

It's all serious.

STUNNER:
The reason I wanted

to join the SEALs

was for missions like this.

The dream of getting this call.

VIVIAN:

As it happened that night,

the President was due

to give a speech.

White House

Correspondents' Dinner.

A room full of journalists.

The fact is,

only a handful of his aides knew

that just before the event...

the President had

authorized the raid.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:
All right,

everybody, please have a seat.

[applause]

My fellow Americans...

[cheering]

it is wonderful to be here...

at the White House

Correspondents' Dinner.

What a week.

STUNNER:
We done hundreds

of missions like this.

Dead-of-the-night type raids.

What was different

was the target.

SETH MEYERS:
It's such an honor

performing for

those of you here tonight,

as well as the handful of people

watching at home on C-SPAN.

People think Bin Laden is hiding

in the Hindu Kush,

but did you know that every day

from four to five,

he hosts a show on C-SPAN?

[laughter and applause]

CHERRY:
In this world,

you don't get to live free

without working for it.

You got to earn it every day.

And...that day we did.

MAN:
It's good to see you.

"Talk" may be the wrong word.

Can you imagine being tied down

and your skin peeled off?

Did you know you have

three layers of skin?

So it can take a while.

It will make your time here

seem like heaven.

I expect you will end up dying.

Their torture chambers

are state-of-the-art.

And your wife and children.

They will go, too.

MAN:
What can I do?

MAN:
Give me something

to chew on.

I need to show

the guys with the keys

that you are worth

keeping around.

And there are

25 million green reasons

for you to help us find

the man we want.

MAN:
I have nothing.

[sighs]

MAN:
I know.

That's why I'm letting

the Saudis borrow you.

[sniffs]

I wish it could end up

better for you.

But at least now

you can take comfort

in the fact that this is

definitely going to end.

You're on your own.

MAN:
What have you got?

MAN:
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti

MAN:
The courier?

MAN:
Let's find him.

MAN:
Understood.

MAN:
Now.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:
If we have

actual intelligence

about high-value

terrorist targets

and President Musharraf

will not act, we will.

SENATOR McCAIN:

Teddy Roosevelt used to say,

"Talk softly,

but carry a big stick."

Senator Obama

likes to talk loudly.

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

We will kill Bin Laden,

we will crush Al-Qaeda.

That has to be our biggest

national security priority.

[horns honking]

VIVIAN:

The phone call that we traced

tied the courier back in

with Al-Qaeda.

We immediately put two assets

on the ground in Peshawar.

ANALYST:
Pan to the left.

Your other left.

Got it.

And watch the profanity.

I understand Pashto.

[speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language]

ANALYST:
On your left, talking

right now. That's our man.

WASEEM:
It's okay.

There he is.

He's coming out.

Let's go!

MALIK:
Hold this.

ANALYST:

We've got a good signal.

Don't blow your cover.

WASEEM:
Keep the distance.

You have caught him.

MAN:
Target is heading due east.

WASEEM:
Give him some space.

[horns honking]

WASEEM:
Get up here.

Take this way.

ANALYST:
There he is.

You're coming up behind him.

MAN:
Stay on course.

ANALYST:
I'm getting

some interference.

Keep your eyes on him.

WASEEM:
We have got him.

We have got a visual.

MAN:
Target is approaching

Karakoram Highway.

Target is leaving Peshawar.

ANALYST:
Do you still have him?

We're trying to get eyes on you.

WASEEM:
Yeah.

We have still got him.

The boy is headed to Abbottabad.

MALIK:
Are you sure?

WASEEM:
Yes.

WASEEM:
He's going off the road.

[horn honking]

ANALYST:
We've got eyes

back on him.

WASEEM:
So do we.

ANALYST:
Good work, gentlemen.

We'll take it from here.

MAN:
Mr. President,

this is the first time

we've had eyes on the courier.

We know he used to be

a courier for Al-Qaeda.

We have no confirmation

they are still in contact,

but we know the place

is built like a fortress.

REPORTER:

The pace of American operations

keeps going up

from week to week.

Night raids up six-fold,

air strikes nearly doubled.

The American troop surge

in Afghanistan

is part of what

an aide to Petraeus calls

"squeezing down on the Taliban

like a giant anaconda."

SOLDIER:

Come on, let's move, Cherry.

This gear ain't

gettin' any lighter.

MAN:
SEAL Team Six,

this mission should be simple.

Transporting

two Taliban operatives

back to Khandahar Base.

Pick-up within 10 mikes.

Get in and get out.

SOLDIER:
Let's go, Mule.

Keep that pace up.

CHERRY:
Growing up...

it's pretty much

just me and my mom.

Eh...

As a kid in junior high,

I got stuffed in trash cans

all the time.

And then there was

this one year I decided

that wasn't gonna

happen anymore.

I started doing the beatin'.

So now, here I am.

I'm fightin'

at the highest level

of the United States of America.

It was like...

the SEALs were waiting for me,

and I'd been waitin' for them.

STUNNER:
Exile 2 1, Exile 2 1,

this is Wild Eagle Niner.

Can I get a sit rep

on that bird? Over.

STUNNER:
I joined because I felt

I had a duty to my country,

a country that I love.

And there was really

no other choice for me.

TECH:
Wild Eagle Niner Reaper 6

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