Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden hits back after Trump retweets conspiracy theory claiming ‘body double’ died instead
THE Navy Seal who shot Osama bin Laden has dismissed a conspiracy theory pushed by President Donald Trump that the Al Qaeda leader was not assassinated - and his body double was killed instead.
Rob O’Neill, who shot bin Laden during a raid in Abbottabad Pakistan in 2011, took to Twitter on Tuesday after Trump shared a tweet linking to the .
The retweet read: "Hiden Biden and Obama may have had Seal Team 6 killed! EXPLOSIVE: CIA Whistleblower Exposes Biden’s Alleged Role with the Deaths of Seal Team- Claims to have Documented Proof. RETWEET!!!”
The QAnon-linked Twitter account, which shared the original tweet, has since been suspended.
On Tuesday morning, O'Neill hit back at Trump, : "Very brave men said goodbye to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden.
"We were given the order by President Obama.
"It was not a body double. Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy."
He later added: "I know who I killed, homie. Every time."
O'Neill shot Osama bin Laden three times during a raid on the compound in Pakistan in May 2011.
He also took part in the rescue of a merchant ship that was taken over by Somali pirates in 2011 - a mission that inspired the plot for the movie 'Captain Phillips' starring Tom Hanks.
After killing the 9/11 mastermind, O'Neill wrote a detailed account about the slaying.
Bin Laden had been hunted for 10 years before US spies finally tracked him down and sent in the Navy Seals to kill him.
O'Neill made light of the situation also tweeted: "S**t. I just found out that I killed Osama bin Johnson. Drinks are on me, I guess..."
A Twitter account for Biden's campaign also responded to Trump's tweets.
It : "Trump has endorsed a falconer's Benghazi conspiracy theory that Joe Biden killed Navy SEALs in a blood sacrifice and that Osama Bin Laden is still alive because Seal Team 6 killed his body double.
"He is seriously unhinged."
According the the , the claim that bin Laden's body double was killed stems from "a falconer who says he uncovered secrets about Al-Qaeda, Iran, and U.S. intelligence in his work as a falconer for Middle Eastern power players."
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