Who Really Shot Osama Bin Laden?

Who Shot Bin Laden? A Tale of Two SEALs -- Matthew Cole and Anna Schecter, NBC

Two different alumni of SEAL Team Six, the secretive group of highly trained soldiers that killed Osama bin Laden three years ago, have been profiting off their role in the terror leader’s death since leaving the military.

Former Team Six member Matt Bissonnette, who wrote a bestseller under a pseudonym about shooting bin Laden, is about to publish his second book about being a Navy SEAL. Rob O’Neill, meanwhile, is the unnamed “shooter” who was credited in numerous magazine articles with firing the fatal shots, and according to two SEAL sources will be presented again as the “shooter” in a Fox News interview that airs later this month. He has been traveling the country giving paid motivational speeches on the unspoken understanding that he’s the man who killed bin Laden.

Neither man is the SEAL who was first up the stairs at bin Laden’s Pakistan compound and fired the first shot at Osama. But their dueling narratives are a sign of the backbiting and dysfunction that has roiled a once tight-knit band of warriors as former members violate their code of secrecy in search of the spotlight.

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Update: So Who Actually Killed Osama Bin Laden? -- ABC News

My Comment: I am surprised that these two former U.S. SEALs have come out with their stories .... albeit conflicting accounts. So much for the code of silence .... but on the bigger issue and the one that rally counts .... I am glad that Osama Bin Laden is dead and at the bottom of the sea.

Update #2: Did Robert O'Neill really kill bin Laden? -- Peter Bergen, CNN

BREAKING NEWS: Rob O'Neill Is Revealed As The U.S. Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden By Shooting Him Three Times In The Head

In action: A rare picture of O'Neill as a serviceman shows him in uniform in Liberia, where the Navy was involved in operation to stabilize the war-torn country

EXCLUSIVE - Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Revealed: Rob O'Neill Named As SEAL Team Six Hero Who Shot 9/11 Mastermind Three Times In Head - And Has Already Inspired Series Of Hollywood Films -- Daily Mail

* SEAL Rob O'Neill named ahead of Fox News interview in which he will tell how he killed bin Laden and why he is giving up his anonymity
* Navy hero is upset at lack of healthcare and retirement after leaving the service and wants to speak out
* In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Rob's father reveals he and his son are NOT worried about being in the ISIS crosshairs
* Dad says 'I'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us'
* His actions have already featured in three movies including Captain Phillips, Zero Dark Thirty and Lone Survivor
* Decision to out himself as 'the shooter' has caused fury at SEAL headquarters and in the Pentagon
* 'Family man' completed more than 400 combat missions, killed more than 30 targets and is one of the most-decorated SEALs ever

The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead in the special force's most famous operation can be named today.

The Navy hero is set to give a full interview to Fox News later this month and waive his anonymity but MailOnline has established that he is Rob O'Neill, a highly-decorated veteran who quit after 16 years service.

In an exclusive interview Rob's father, Tom O'Neill, tells MailOnline, 'People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public. I say I'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us.'

Rob O'Neill, 38, is a former member of SEAL Team Six who has been portrayed on screen in Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.

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More News On Rob O'Neill Being Revealed As The Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

Was Robert O’Neill The Osama Bin Laden Shooter? Navy SEAL Identified: Report -- IBTimes
Website IDs the bin Laden 'Shooter' -- Newser
Navy SEAL who Shot Bin Laden Steps Forward -- Arutz Sheva
Naval Special Warfare Leadership Responds to ‘The Shooter’ & Mark Owen -- Sofrep
Man who killed Osama bin Laden is revealed -- ITV

Pentagon Warns SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Not To Go On FOX News

Pentagon: The Navy SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden Should Not Reveal Himself On Fox News -- Business Insider

On Wednesday, Fox News announced it planned to reveal the identity of the Navy SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden in a documentary set to air next month.

However, in a statement issued to Business Insider the Pentagon stressed that anyone who participated in the 2011 operation that left the Al Qaeda leader dead was "still bound" by a "non-disclosure agreement to not discuss classified information, especially in a nationally televised interview."

This seems to indicate the SEAL could face a criminal investigation for participating in the documentary.

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Previous Post: The Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Going To Reveal Himself To The World On May 1

My Comment: The Pentagon is right .... stay low-key and hidden. But what can the Pentagon do if he decides to show up and reveal himself .... there are no good options for the Pentagon is such a case .... put the man who killed the man who organized 9/11 into court and/or into jail ... I doubt it.

The Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Going To Reveal Himself To The World On May 1

The Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Is Reportedly Going To Reveal Himself To The World -- Business Insider

Fox News will broadcast an exclusive interview with the Navy SEAL who shot dead Osama Bin Laden during the raid on Bin Laden's Pakistan compound on May 1, 2011.

The SEAL, commonly referred to as "The Shooter," will reveal himself for the first time almost two and a half years after the stealth Abbottabad mission that killed the man behind the 9/11 attacks and leader of the international terrorist network Al Qaeda.

According to the network's press release, Fox’s Peter Doocy will interview the SEAL over the course of a two-part documentary called “The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Laden.”

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Update: Fox News Lands Interview With SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden -- Daily Caller

My Comment: In my opinion .... he should keep low and silent ... there is no upside to being publicly exposed .... unless he wants to/and is being paid to do it (but even then .... I cannot see it being worth it).

Why Is The U.S. Government Ignoring The Documents And Intel Retrieved In The Bin Laden Raid?

President Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room. Pete Souza/White House

Al Qaeda Wasn’t ‘On The Run’ -- Stephen F. Hayes, Weekly Standard

Why haven’t we seen the documents retrieved in the bin Laden raid?

In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, an elite team of 25 American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the walls of a compound just outside the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. CIA analysts had painstakingly tracked a courier to the compound and spent months monitoring the activity inside the walls. They’d concluded, with varying levels of confidence, that the expansive white building at the center of the lot was the hideout of Osama bin Laden.

They were correct. And minutes after the team landed, the search for bin Laden ended with a shot to his head.

The primary objective of Operation Neptune Spear was to capture or kill the leader of al Qaeda. But a handful of those on the ground that night were part of a “Sensitive Site Exploitation” team that had a secondary mission: to gather as much intelligence from the compound as they could.

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My Comment: A million pages of documents were seized from the Bin laden raid .... and only 10% has been looked at and analyzed !?!?!?!?! There is something seriously wrong here.