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Navy SEALs Killed Fishermen to Hide Failed Mission to Wiretap North Korea

It’s impossible to tell how many other times U.S. special operations failed and killed innocent bystanders in the process.

Seth Harp, author of The Fort Bragg Cartel, roughly estimates that Joint Special Operations Command killed 100,000 people during the Iraq War "surge" from 2007 to 2009. Based on aerial surveillance beforehand, the military planners had concluded that this part of North Korea was supposed to be free of boat traffic at that hour of the night in the winter. Afterward, the Times reports, "U.S. spy satellites detected a surge of North Korean military activity in the area," which could have been because someone heard the gunshots and spotted strange movements, or because a group of fishermen were lost at sea.

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