JUST-IN: Navy SEAL Team 6. Troop Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

The same operators who killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in 2011 extracted a downed Air Force colonel from the Zagros Mountains of Iran in 2026.

The parallels are exact and the differences are what matter. In 2011, 24 SEALs flew two stealth Black Hawks into Pakistan, spent 40 minutes on the ground, destroyed one crashed helicopter to protect its classified stealth modifications, and flew out with bin Laden’s body. Zero casualties.

In 2026, according to the Times, hundreds of special operations troops and other military personnel, dozens of warplanes and helicopters, and the full spectrum of cyber, space, and intelligence capabilities were deployed to extract one injured weapons systems officer who had been evading capture for over 24 hours while IRGC forces and Bakhtiari tribesmen hunted him through mountains 200 miles inside Iran.

The operation that killed the world’s most wanted man used two helicopters. The operation that rescued one pilot used an air armada.See more details, report. .