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With cam gigandet, jenny gabrielle, anson mount, freddy rodriguez. The navy seal who wrote the book about the bin laden raid. A former member of seal team 6, known by the pseudonym mark owen, recounts the raid that killed the worlds most wanted man. Cairo, a belgian malinois and military working dog. This contradicts the account of matt bissonnette, another former seal involved in the raid, in a 2012 book.
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