Book: bin Laden always a 'kill mission,' Obama told SEALs fight, not surrender, if caught

A comprehensive new book about U.S. special operations reveals that the mission to get top terrorist Osama bin Laden was “a kill mission, not a capture mission,” and that SEAL Team 6 members handpicked for the assault were ordered by President Obama to fight it out, not surrender, if caught.

“Bin Laden was the first time [were were told], ‘This is a kill mission, not a capture mission, unless he was naked with his hands up,'” a Team 6 source is quoted in Relentless Strike, due out September 1.