US publisher speeds publication of Seal Team Six in wake of elite soldiers' killing of al-Qaida figurehead A US publisher is racing out a timely behind-the-scenes account of Seal Team Six, the elite counter-terrorism unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on Sunday 1 May. Publication of Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Navy Seal Howard E Wasdin and co-author Stephen Templin was originally planned for 24 May, after St Martin's Press acquired the book almost a year ago. But according to US books magazine Publishers Weekly it is now being rushed out in the wake of Bin Laden's death, with copies shipping early to stores and full distribution across the US planned by the middle of next week. The book is already riding high in the bestseller charts, sitting in second place in Amazon.com's list of the biggest gainers in book sales over the past 24 hours even before publication, and moving into 29th position overall, up from below 4,000 before the al-Qaida leader's death was announced. The book tells of the rigorous training and selection process Wasdin went through to join Seal Team Six ("More than learning how ... (John) In this case, the _mortem_ is literal. One aspect of the raid that killed bin Laden that hasn't yet attracted much attention is the retrieval of computers and other materials that could have intelligence value from the compound where he lived. Reportedly, the SEALs' raid took around 40 minutes. From what we know about how such teams operate, my guess is that only the first few minutes, at most, were required to kill or disable the compound's defenders. (It is still unclear--to me, anyway--how many defenders there were. We have heard about bin Laden, his son, the courier and his brother. One would assume that more al Qaeda members were present as guards, but I've seen nothing about this.) The bulk of the 40 minutes was probably spent searching the compound. The New York Post reports: > Along with bin Laden's body, electronics and hard drives were seized by U.S. forces following the firefight on Sunday afternoon. The information has started to arrive at the CIA's Virginia headquarters.... > > The officials described the cache as a "volume of materials" that will be "exploited and analyzed" at CIA headquarters. There has been a great deal of speculation ... Osama bin Laden's death was the denouement of a decade-long search for America's public enemy number one The helicopters swooped in the dead of night, flying in formation across the lower ranges of the Himalayas, then dropping precipitously on their target, a three- storey house on an acre of land in a wealthy suburb of Abbottabad, the training ground of Pakistan's powerful military officer corps. In one of the houses nearby Omar Nazeer, a 30-year-old official at Pakistan's petroleum ministry, was up late, working on his laptop. As the MH-60 Black Hawks thundered overhead he gave a start, spilling coffee on to the keyboard. "Our windows were shivering because the helicopters were so close," he said. The aircraft – three or four, according to different reports – carried soldiers from the US navy's elite Seal Team Six, a highly secretive counter- terrorism unit that works closely with the CIA. One hovered over the target house; al-Qaida militants fired on it with a rocket-propelled grenade. Then disaster struck: the chopper stalled and slumped towards the ground. Thousands of miles away in the US, officials watching on live video feeds had a heart-stopping moment. Some thought of "Black ... **EXCLUSIVE**: Oliver Stone is putting together a killer cast for _Savages_, the drama based on Don Winslow's bestselling novel. Stone is arranging a _Pulp Fiction_ reunion of John Travolta and Uma Thurman, as the two actors are in talks to join the ensemble cast. Also joining is is _The Town's_ Blake Lively, who beat out a group of young actresses to play the role of O. Travolta will play Dennis, a burned out DEA agent, and Thurman will play O's mom, Paqu. They join Taylor Kitsch, already set to play who'll play the role of former Navy SEAL Chon (Kitsch has already begun training with the real SEALs); Aaron Johnson, who plays the role of Ben; Salma Hayek, who'll play the role of Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena; and Benicio Del Toro, who plays the vicious cartel enforcer Lado. The script is by Winslow and Shane Salerno. There are several more roles to go. Universal Pictures is financing and distributing the film, which begins production in early July. _Savages_ focuses on the relationship between best friend Laguna pot growers Chon and Ben, who live a cozy life with their trippy galpal, O. Their pot is ... **Poised for Action:** As Navy SEAL, Rob Roy picked up leadership skills in combat. Now he" />**Poised for Action:** As Navy SEAL, Rob Roy picked up leadership skills in combat. Now he" />**Poised for Action:** As Navy SEAL, Rob Roy picked up leadership skills in combat. Now he" />**Poised for Action:** As Navy SEAL, Rob Roy picked up leadership skills in combat. Now he's passing on that knowledge through leadership training courses.'> **Imagine this for leadership training:** It's midnight, and you're dropped into the San Diego Bay. The water temperature is a brisk 57 degrees, and you're surrounded by strangers. Ex-military-types begin screaming at you to swim--but you have no idea where you're going. When you finally reach the beach, two miles later, you collapse in exhaustion. Welcome to Leadership Under Fire--you've just begun your 72-hour lesson in becoming a better boss. "The purpose is to tell them that they can walk into any situation and come out ahead," says Rob Roy, the founder of the Leadership Under Fire series and a former Navy SEAL officer. "They can't walk into a boardroom and think they can't make it. They'll refer back to this time, and ... This is not the first time Roy Oswalt has been part of a star-studded starting rotation. For three years - 2004 to 2006 - he was part of a Houston Astros trio that included Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte. To this day, those two still influence Oswalt's pitching preparation.
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References:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/03/navy-seal-memoir-print-bin-laden
http://feeds.powerlineblog.com/~r/powerlineblog/livefeed/~3/BpwOnrU81x8/028955.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-killed-abbottabad-raid
http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/john-travolta-uma-thurman-and-blake-lively-join-savages-cast/
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/inc/headlines/~3/T9tJWPvggNg/americas-toughest-ceo-coach-navy-seal-rob-roy.html
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168491&44=118971499&32=3796&7=195227&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fsports%2Fphillies%2F20110331_Roy_Oswalt_s_training_based_on_Navy_Seal_workout.html
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