Osama Bin Laden killing: US Navy Seal Row over shooting.

Osama Bin Laden killing: US Navy Seals row over shooting

Retired US Navy Seal Robert O'Neill says he
killed Bin Laden with shots to the head
A public row has arisen over which US
commando fired the shot that killed Osama
Bin Laden, more than three years after the
al-Qaeda leader's death.
Ex-Navy Seal Robert O'Neill, 38, has told the
Washington Post in an interview that he fired
the fatal shot.
This contradicts the account of Matt
Bissonnette, another former Seal involved in
the raid, in a 2012 book.
The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a 2011 Navy
Seal raid on his compound in Abbottabad,
Pakistan.
Navy Seals usually abide by a code of silence
that forbids them from publicly taking credit
for their actions.
Mr O'Neill, who retired in 2012, had previously
told his story anonymously to Esquire
magazine.
He was scheduled to reveal his identity in a
television interview later this month, but news
of the interview angered other former Seals.
A website run by ex-special forces personnel
published his name pre-emptively, apparently
in protest at his decision to claim credit for the
shooting.
Mr O'Neill said he and another member of the
team - whose identity remains secret -
climbed the stairs to the third floor of the
compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and saw
Bin Laden poke his head outside the door of
one of the rooms.
President Obama and his national security
team monitored the raid on Bin Laden's
compound
US Navy Seals killed Bin Laden at his
compound in Pakistan in May 2011
The unnamed commando, at the "point
position" leading the column, fired at him but
missed, according to Mr O'Neill.
An instant later, Mr O'Neill went into the room
and killed the al-Qaeda leader with shots to
the head, he says.


BBC.