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
1 comment:
Money.
PMC's looted billions, the head of the NSA used Agency assets and covert intel to play the markets, the Infamous Airline shorts of 9/11 turned out to be the work of a CIA Bankster,
It's the predicable end result of a deeply corrupt and inequal system.
When you watch them throwing "footballs" of freshly minted cash, unaccounted for, and come back home to dysfunctional VA services and pension cuts, well, it changes the rules.
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