US Navy SEAL who claims he killedOsama bin Laden in Pakistan has said that he heard the world's most wanted man
take his last breath after he pumped three bullets into the head of the al
Qaeda chief.
"I was standing above him when he took his last breath and I heard it," Robert O'Neill recounted. In part two of The Man Who Killed Osama Bin Ladan" Broadcast on media, O'Neill told Fox News that it was just chance that he ended up being the shooter in the famous mission at bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad in 2011.
The
38-year-old commando described how after making it into the compound with his
team, he entered the room and saw bin Laden.
"Standing
on two feet in front of me, with his hands on his wife's shoulders behind her
was the face that I had seen thousands of times, Osama," he said. "I recognized
him very quickly and then it was just shoot 3 bullet in his head."
After bin
Laden's death, the SEALs' mission was not over. O'Neill described the team's
harrowing 90-minute flight back to Afghanistan after completing the raid on May
2, saying the team knew at any moment they could be shot down from the sky.
Eighty-something minutes into it, somebody came over the radio to
everybody and said, “All right gentleman for the first time in your lives
you're going to be happy to hear this -- welcome to Afghanistan,'" he
said.
"And everyone was like; oh my God.... we just did it. We just
pulled it off and we got him. And we all lived. We are all fine. It
was Crazy. So then, there was high-fiving and stuff. Guys were, because I mean,
we got Osama bin Laden and we are going to live....amazing."
O'Neill said that he and the other SEALs did not think they would
make it out of the compound, but he said they felt that the mission would be
worth sacrificing their own lives.
"We are going to die eventually, this is a good way to go and
it's worth it to kill him," he said they thought. "He's going to die
with us."
O'Neill has faced heat from other Navy SEALs who have either
discredited his claims or said that it's impossible for O'Neill to know that it
was his bullets that struck and killed Osama bin Laden.
Without directly addressing O'Neill and his claims, the military
brass wrote a timely letter criticizing SEALs who take public credit for their
actions.
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