Based on what the President says, it appears there is no such JSOC involvement in this operation.
Covert are usually commanded by JSOC, a secret group within Special Operations Command.
The JSOC planners, determined to keep the operation as secret as possible, had decided against using additional fighters or bombers.
He found a two-star Army general from JSOC headquarters seated at a conference table with Brian, James, Mark, and several analysts from the C.
Panetta contacted Vice-Admiral Bill McRaven, the SEAL in charge of JSOC.
At dawn, bin Laden was loaded into the belly of a flip-wing V-22 Osprey, accompanied by a JSOC liaison officer and a security detail of military police.
Brigadier General Marshall Webb, an assistant commander of JSOC, took a seat at the end of a lacquered table in a small adjoining office and turned on his laptop.
The JSOC liaison, the military-police contingent, and several sailors placed the shrouded body on an open-air elevator, and rode down with it to the lower level, which functions as a hangar for airplanes.
He says he helped JSOC evolve from a disconnected organization that was slow to catch targets early on in Iraq, because the operators lacked the manpower or communications equipment to analyze intelligence they gathered quickly enough.
At the request of Pentagon security reviewers, the former general made famous by his command at JSOC doesn't use that term, instead substituting "Task Force 714" for JSOC, "Green team" for Delta, and "Blue" for SEAL Team 6.
Attacking terrorist targets in Africa is not a new trend, in fact a secret order (known as the al-Qaeda EXORD) dating back to 2003 authorized lethal action by JSOC forces against al-Qaeda in Algeria, Mali, Nigeria, and Somalia and Syria so long as JSOC forces sought the tacit approval from the country involved or at least a sign-off from higher up on the American chain of command.
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