Ex-SEAL Says He Killed Osama Bin Laden
The elite fighter outed himself as the terrorist's assassin.
A 38-year-old Montana native told The Washington Post he was the shooter who killed Osama bin Laden in 2011.
The Navy SEAL who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden has admitted to the heroic deed.
According to an exclusive in The Washington Post, Robert O’Neill was near the head of the group of U.S. soldiers that burst into bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout in 2011. He shot bin Laden in the forehead, but acknowledged that other shots were fired by other SEAL team members.
O'Neill, 38, is a Montana native and a a highly decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I rolled past him into the room, just inside the doorway,” O’Neill told The Washington Post. “There was bin Laden, standing there. He had his hands on a woman’s shoulders pushing her ahead.”
