CNN: Former Navy SEAL Claims He Killed Osama bin Laden

‘Robert O’Neill was a decorated former Navy SEAL from Montana who now works as a motivational speaker’

TODD (voice-over): "A former Navy seal comes forward saying he's the man who killed Osama bin Laden. Sources in the special operations community tell CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, Robert O'Neil claims to be the shooter. O'Neil is a decorated former seal from Montana who now works as motivational speaker."
O'NEIL: "My name is Robert O'Neil. I was a Navy Seal for almost 17 years."
TODD (voice-over): "O'Neil told the Washington Post he fired a shoot which struck Bin Laden in the forehead. The terrorist leader died instantly, he says, his scull's split by the first bullet. But sources in Seal Team Six, the unit which conducted the bin Laden raid, tell Peter Bergen another seal fired the fatal shot from the area of the stairs leading to Bin Laden's floor, as Bin Laden appeared at the door of his bedroom."
BERGEN: "Most of the people in the Seal community I've spoken to say that the night that Bin Laden was killed, somebody called the point man, who was never going to identify himself publicly, was the guy who took the first shoot of Bin Laden and wind him. And then Bin Laden collapsed on the ground in his bedroom and he was finished off by two other seals."
TODD (voice-over): "So those two Seals, according to Bergen sources, Robert O'Neil and Matt Bissonnette who wrote a book 'No Easy Day' about the raid. Separately, a U.S. military official told CNN's Barbara Star there was a Seal named Robert O'Neil on that mission, but they don't know if O'Neil fired the kill shoot. Bergen acknowledges the scene was confusing."
BERGEN: "There was a night with no moon. There was no electricity in the house. There was the helicopter that crashed, there were two or three fire fights. These guys were wearing night vision goggles and the whole event of killing Bin Laden, my guess, took place  in ten seconds."
TODD (voice-over): "The head of the Seal command sent a letter in recent days reminding Seals not to break their Code of silence, warning of 'judicial consequence' if they do. Former Seal John McGuire says neither O'Neil nor Matt Bissonnette should have spoken about the Bin Laden raid."
McGUIRE: "Everybody wants to know how special operation folks do things. Our enemy wants to know more what we do and we got to protect future missions and other American lives."
 

 

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