A Department of Defense official that there was no leaks from the Afghans. Doubts about this story were raised by families and other concerned citizens due to the fact that the same US Navy SEAL team aboard Extortion 17 had carried out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden three months earlier. The theories suggest that there had been leaked information from Afghan forces to the Taliban about the mission, allowing the Taliban to plan and carry out the strike against Extortion 17.[21]