Posted on 07/06/2025 8:03:05 AM PDT by Racketeer
Rob O'Neill recounts the ride to Osama Bin Laden’s house.
Red Squadron was Neptune Spear to kill Bin Laden and Gold was on Extortion 17 on a QRF. It was a devastating war time shoot down by the enemy but no conspiracy contrary to many. Evidently a SEAL nicknamed “Red” actually killed Bin Laden. The BS meter goes off as he throws out his sometimes disjointed time line and observations and Tucker challenges none of it. He’s up there with “Lone Survivor” Latrell. A story and book crafted by DOD. I like O’Neil but he absolutely lies and embellishes beyond typical military “fish stories”.
Don’t others say it was someone else who killed OBL?
You need to stfu
“So why did you try to mislead everyone?”
It was certainly not intentional. However, the entire team of Seals on board that chopper were members of Seal Team 6. All of them aboard were killed.
Thirty GIs died in the crash, 17 were SEALs and 15 were from Team 6, but not from the same team.
I don’t know how many Seal team 6 members there were then but they number in the 100s today and it was probably similar then.
Check the Antihero Podcast, "Ep 37: Rob O'Neill: The Web of Lies". This was uploaded August 27, 2023. At 19 minutes it gets into who killed Bin Laden. Going back further, Task and Purpose (web), "Robert O’Neill Is Not The Hero Of The Bin Laden Raid", Published Nov 7, 2014.
"But he’s not the hero of the raid that killed bin Laden. Task & Purpose spoke with a member of the SEAL community under the condition of anonymity who said that SEALs and many in the special operations community are pissed that O’Neill is now stepping up to claim the spotlight."Osama Bin Laden was killed May 2, 2011, and O'Neill started taking credit a few years later. Carlson can't claim ignorance of the controversy around O'Neill and that the Special Operations community is mad at him for taking the credit. The SEAL community knows who shot Bin Laden, and that he does not want his name public. That man was not Robert O'Neill.
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"But it’s O’Neill — who almost certainly was not the most heroic man on the raid, and may not have even fired the shots that killed bin Laden — who now stands to garner all the credit." "“You have this point man, one of the real heroes of this thing, keeping quiet, being humble, and setting a good example,” Task & Purpose’s source said."
Food for thought:
For O'Neill and other SEALs on the Bin Laden raid to still be alive and tell their stories, as to who did and didn't kill Bin Laden, means they were not killed during Extortion 17.
But why let reality get in the way of a conspiracy theory?
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