US soldier recounts shooting Osama
New York, April 9: An exNavy Seal, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, has revealed that the al-Qaeda chief ’s head was so severely destroyed by his gunfire that it had to be pressed back together for identification.
Ex-Navy Seal team shooter Robert O’Neill has reasserted his claim that he alone pumped three bullets into Osama, killing the architect of the 9/11 attacks, in a new book.
In The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Bin Laden, the former Navy Seal Team 6 shooter lays out the details of what went down that night inside the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the New York Daily News reported.
While controversy still swirls around Mr O’Neill’s version of the May 2, 2011, raid, much of it centres on his breaking the Special Ops code of silence.
O’Neill, in his book, makes the gruesome claim that Osama’s head was so severely destroyed by his
Ex-Navy Seal operative Robert O’Neill says bin Laden’s head was so severely destroyed, it had to be put back together for identification
gunfire that it had to be pressed back together for identification photographs.
In Mr O’Neill’s version, he was trailing five or six other Seals climbing the stairs to the compound’s second floor when Osama’s son Khalid appeared on the half-landing with an AK-47.
Mr O’Neill recounts that finally he decided to take action. Bin Laden stood near the bed, his hands on the shoulders of the woman in front of him. She was later identified as Amal, the youngest of his four wives, the report said.
“In less than a second, I aimed above the woman’s right shoulder and pulled the trigger twice,” Mr O’Neill writes. “Bin Laden’s head split open, and he dropped. I put another bullet in his head. Insurance,” he writes.
According to Mr O’Neill, the other members of the team rushed into the room only after he placed a twoyear-old boy found cowering in a corner near a bed.