Navy SEAL Who Claimed Bin Laden Kill Says Team Covered Up War Crime
Rob O’Neill, who claims he fired the fatal shots, now says he witnessed another operator shoot the wounded and dying terrorist leader in the face and the team lied about it.
What really happened in the third-floor bedroom where Osama bin Laden died?
More than a decade after the raid was celebrated in countless books, documentaries, magazine articles, news specials, and in the Oscar-nominated Hollywood film Zero Dark Thirty, the answer remains murky.
There have been conflicting accounts of who fired the fatal shots, and now one of the SEALs who built a multimillion-dollar business claiming he fired them is telling a different story, saying he and his teammates covered up a war crime.
Rob O’Neill, a former member of SEAL Team Six’s Red Squadron, said in a podcast released Monday that one of his teammates shot Osama bin Laden in the face at close range as he lay on the floor dying from multiple bullet wounds during the 2011 special operations raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
“Someone point-blan…
