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Two SEALs broke through the bedroom door. Bin Laden's wife Amal was on the edge of the bed shouting in Arabic at the SEALs, and Osama bin Laden dived across the bed, shoving Amal at the same time, for an AKS-74U kept by the headboard. The SEALs fired four shots at bin Laden; the first missed, the second grazed Amal in the calf also missing bin ...
Robert J. O'Neill (born 10 April 1976) is a former United States Navy SEAL (1996–2012), TV news contributor, and author. After participating in May 2011's Operation Neptune Spear with SEAL Team Six, O'Neill was the subject of controversy for claiming to be the sole individual to kill Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden was killed after being shot in the head and chest, [15] [16] [17] during Operation Neptune Spear, [18] with Geronimo as the code word for bin Laden's capture or death. [19] The operation was a 40-minute raid by members of the United States special operations forces and Navy SEALs on his safe house [ 20 ] in Bilal Town ...
An ex-U.S. Navy SEAL who has said he fired the shot that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. An ex-U.S. Navy SEAL who has said he fired ...
Fellow Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette has also claimed he fired the shot that killed the al Qaida founder. Bisonette even wrote a book, No Easy Day, detailing his role in the May 2, 2011 raid on bin ...
Osama bin Laden had the “Charlie bit my finger” video among his terrorist files at the Pakistan compound where he was killed during a 2011 Navy SEAL raid. The one-minute 2007 video — along ...
The photograph received much publicity after the news of Bin Laden's death was announced. CNN called it a "photo for the ages" and drew comparisons to other famous images of U.S. presidents such as Dewey Defeats Truman. Former White House photographer Eric Draper said that the photo captured "a defining moment in history very well."
The SEAL team’s legacy was forever secured two years later when it conducted a daring nighttime raid on bin Laden’s Pakistani compound in 2011, killing the mastermind behind al Qaeda’s 9/11 ...