Ex-Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill recalls the moment ‘he shot dead Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’
O'Neill maintains he killed the al-Qaeda leader in 2011, blasting his head with two bullets for 'insurance’
A FORMER elite soldier from the crack assassination squad that killed Osama bin Laden has described the moment he claims he pulled the trigger and blew open the terror chief’s head.
Ex-Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill says he killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden and has written a detailed account of how he slayed the al-Qaeda leader.
Once they entered he describes trailing at least five other Navy SEALs up the stairs to the second floor.
They believed this was where bin Laden, three of his four wives and 17 of his children were holed up.
Bin Laden's son, Khalid, was believed to be hiding around a corner and armed with an AK-47.
But O’Neill writes that a simple but devastatingly effective plan had been hatched for this very situation
Agents simply called out to him in Arabic, saying: “Khalid, come here.”
Popping his head round the corner, he shouted “What?”
But in chilling detail O’Neil recalls how the bullet entered the young man’s chin and exited at the back of his head.
Intelligence had suggested if Khalid was present then his dad would be upstairs.
Running upstairs they found two women who were pounced on.
And then, standing near the entrance of the bedroom at the foot of a bed was the man the American’s had been waiting to kill ever since 9/11.
O’Neill said Osama bin Laden standing near the entrance at the foot of a bed.
He said the terrorist was taller and thinner than he’d expected, his beard shorter and hair whiter.
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