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herders while they waited to kill or capture a High ranking Taliban he said the four men voted to spare the herders but that 45 min utes later they were surrounded by 80 Taliban killed were Petty officer 2nd class Danny and Petty officer Matt in the Abc interview and in the Luttrell describes a discus Sion by the four seals and then a vote to let the herders that said Daniel Mur is a far cry from what he said Luttrell told the Murphy family not Long after the death of their that directly contradicts what he told Murphys Mother Mau myself and Michaels brother John in my said Mur who watched Luttrell on Tele vision but said he Hast read the he said that Michael was Adamant that the civilians were going to be that he want going to kill innocent peo ple Michael put that up for in the who was subordinate to Murphy on the casts himself As the Deci Sive player in the writing that he cast the deciding vote to release the he says he was torn Between his warriors soul that favored an ice cold military decision to execute these and his Christian crowding in on Luttrell could not be reached and his publicist declined to according to the Murphy was against killing the herders not out of moral considerations but seemingly selfish he said Axelson was in favor of kill ing the while Dietz said he didst senior chief Petty officer Scott a Seal spokesman in san declined to discuss specifics of Luttrell Book but said it had been cleared ahead of the spokesman said the official rules of engagement in play for this incident remained in nearly All situations in War experts the killing of civilians can be considered in the Book and Lut Trell said he regretted the Deci Sion to spare the herders and upset Darnel Luttrell was awarded the Navy Cross for the
