Carl Higbie

Carl Higbie is a former Navy SEAL[1] and author.[2] He served two tours of duty during Operation Iraqi Freedom.[3] Higbie led the Navy SEAL Team which captured the Butcher of Fallujah, Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi.[4] Al-Isawi was the second most wanted man in the world at the time after Osama bin Laden.[5] Higbie is the author of two books Battle on the Home Front: A Navy SEAL’s Mission to Save the American Dream[6] and Enemies, Foreign & Domestic: A SEAL's Story. He is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN to provide commentary on political and military issues.[7] Higbie unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Connecticut in 2014.[8]

Navy

Carl Higbie served for nearly a decade as a U.S. Navy SEAL capturing high value targets in Iraq.[9] After Higbie's book Battle on the Home Front: A Navy SEAL's Mission to Save the American Dream[10] was published in 2012, his security clearance was downgraded from "top secret".[11] He signed out of the SEALs before the end of his term of duty with an honorable discharge. Some two months later the Navy downgraded his discharge to "general".[11] Higbie successfully challenged the Navy in court and had his honorable discharge reinstated.[12] A second book, Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: A SEALS's Story, was published in 2016.[13]

Butcher of Fallujah

Carl Higbie led the Navy SEAL Team which captured the infamous "Butcher of Fallujah" Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi.[14] At the time of his capture, al-Isawi was the second most wanted man in the world after Osama bin Laden.[15] Al-Isawi was responsible for the gruesome murders of four U.S. military contractors, three former SEALs and one former Army Ranger.[16] He ruthlessly murdered them, burned their bodies, then dragged them through the streets before hanging them from a bridge.[17] In 2009, Echo Platoon, of SEAL Team 10 received intel on his location and they undertook a daring nighttime raid.[18] Higbie was joined by Team members Matthew McCabe and Jonathon Keefe, among others. They flawless executed the raid and brought al-Isawi back to base.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Edwards, David. "Fox guest tells female combat veteran: ‘No offense to women, but they don’t have a place’". Raw Story. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Ingersoll, Geoffrey. "There's Another Navy SEAL Book Out That's Going To Make People Furious". Business Insider. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Hoffman, Bill. "Ex-SEAL Higbie: 'Morale Is Terrible in the Military Right Now' Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/military-morale/2014/09/22/id/596187/#ixzz46PckydOB Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!". Newsmax. Retrieved 20 April 2016. External link in |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Marchant, Robert. "Fight on the Home Front". Greenwich Times. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Smith, Kyle. "How political correctness took down Navy SEALs". New York Post. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  6. ↑ Villines, Maggie. "Carl Higbie Navy SEAL: Politics Have Infiltrated Military – Battle on the Home Front". Maggie's Notebook.
  7. ↑ Gold, Hadas. "Trump wannabes shake up cable airwaves". Politico. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  8. ↑ Vigdor, Neil. "Mission Congress for retired Navy SEAL". CT Post. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Ingersoll, Geoffrey. "There's Another Navy SEAL Book Out That's Going To Make People Furious". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
  10. ↑ Higbie, Carl. A Navy SEAL's Mission to Save the American Dream. Riverside, CT: Ameriman. ISBN 9780985113704.
  11. 1 2 Brandon Caro (11 December 2013). Did a Navy SEAL Lose His Honorable Discharge as a Punishment for Exercising his Rights?. The Daily Beast. Accessed April 2016.
  12. ↑ Marchant, Robert. "Fight on the Home Front". Greenwich Times. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  13. ↑ Higbie, Carl. Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: A SEALS's Story. Post Hill Press. ISBN 9781618688118.
  14. ↑ Higbie, Carl. Enemies, Foreign & Domestic: A SEAL's Story (1st ed.). New York: Post Hill Press. p. 181. ISBN 9781618688118. Retrieved 3 May 2016. More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)
  15. ↑ Smith, Kyle. "How political correctness took down Navy SEALs". NY Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  16. ↑ Smith, Kyle. "How political correctness took down Navy SEALs". NY Post.
  17. ↑ Smith, Kyle. "How political correctness took down Navy SEALs". NY Post. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  18. ↑ Scarborough, Rowan. "Navy SEALs cite shabby treatment as Team Obama helps Hollywood instead". Washington Times. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  19. ↑ Nicholson, Amy. "American Sniper Is a Rah-Rah War-on-Terror Fantasy". LA Weekly. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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