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'No controversy': Bin Laden's killer gives interview responding to critics

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The SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden comes forward

Robert O'Neill, the Navy SEAL who claims to have been the one that killed Osama Bin Laden during the 2011 raid in Pakistan says that there is "no controversy," about his story, "I shot him and I killed him."

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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
11/14/2014 (9 years ago)

Published in U.S.

Keywords: Osama bin Laden, U.S., Robert O'Neill, Navy SEAL

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - O'Neill spoke to Today, the retired SEAL countered rumors that have come up from other SEALS from the mission.

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About the raid he said that "We knew this is what we're here for, this is the number one mission that the country has asked us to do."

O'Neill spoke about the raid in detail, and his encounter with one of America's greatest enemies.

"He was on the third floor and I was behind one man. There was unknown women and the SEAL pushed them away," he said. "I turned right and I was a few feet from bin Laden."

The leader of al-Qaeda was behind a woman, but the SEALs were concerned that bin Laden might have been wearing a suicide vest.

"He was not surrendering and he was a threat. He needed to be shot."

"It was surreal. It was another target-I'd seen it before (on other missions) and I was seeing it again," he said. "It was not the most difficult target we've ever done."

Other members of SEAL Team Six have claimed that O'Neill's version of events is not true. Matt Bissonnette said that it was he who fired shots into bin Laden's fallen body.

O'Neill dismissed these claims as "fog of war."

"I can only speak to what I saw. I turned to the right, Osama bin Laden was standing there. I shot him and I killed him and there's no controversy as far as I'm concerned. This was a very good thing that we did."

O'Neill has also been criticized for revealing details about the mission which are still classified, and breaking the traditional code of the Navy SEALs to be "silent professionals."

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