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Who Shot Bin Laden? A Tale of Two Seals
http://www.nbcnews.com ^ | November 6, 2014 | Matthew Cole

Posted on 01/19/2016 12:11:22 PM PST by NKP_Vet

Two different alumni of SEAL Team Six, the secretive group of highly trained warriors that killed Osama bin Laden three years ago, have been profiting off their role in the terror leader's death since leaving the military.

Former Team Six member Matt Bissonnette, who wrote a bestseller under a pseudonym about shooting bin Laden, is about to publish his second book about being a Navy SEAL. Rob O'Neill, meanwhile, is the unnamed "shooter" who was credited in numerous magazine articles with firing the fatal shots, and according to two SEAL sources will be presented again as the "shooter" in a Fox News interview that airs later this month. He has been traveling the country giving paid motivational speeches on the unspoken understanding that he's the man who killed bin Laden.

Neither man is the SEAL who was first up the stairs at bin Laden's Pakistan compound and fired the first shot at Osama. But their dueling narratives are a sign of the backbiting and dysfunction that has roiled a once tight-knit band of warriors as former members violate their code of secrecy in search of the spotlight.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mattbissonnette; matthewbissonnette; navyseal; noeasyday; osamabinladen; pages; roboneill
"The man who shot Bin Laden, the man who shot Bin Laden, he was the bravest of them all". My apologizes to Gene Pitney

Hard to believe this these two self-promoting loudmouths were ever Navy Seals. Remember when this elite military organization and it's members kept their mouths shut about clandestine operations, which most are classified as Top Secret. I heard that other Seals won't even talk to these two characters. Matt Bissonnette is currently in trouble for allegedly having a picture of a dead Bin Laden. Never heard him interviewed on Fox News. Rob O'Neill is on three or four times a week. He's all the sudden a great military analyst.

1 posted on 01/19/2016 12:11:22 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

“At this point, what difference does it make!?”


2 posted on 01/19/2016 12:12:33 PM PST by IncPen (There is not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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Bin Laden shot ? Show me the body.

check this out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385718/posts

If Bissonnette is going to get hammered for having and misusing classified info, Hillary should already be in jail.


3 posted on 01/19/2016 12:19:59 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: NKP_Vet
Thread should be subtitled, "A tale of two SEAL's who couldn't keep their mouths shut."
4 posted on 01/19/2016 12:22:30 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: NKP_Vet

I never saw the body.


5 posted on 01/19/2016 12:25:37 PM PST by paintriot (Desperado...why don't you come to your senses.)
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You don’t need to. The lyin’ king shot him and we have his word that osama is D.E.A.D. Sheesh, if you can’t believe him, who can you believe? /s


6 posted on 01/19/2016 12:30:36 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: paintriot; windcliff

Neither did I.

“It’s Bissonnay.”


7 posted on 01/19/2016 12:41:50 PM PST by onedoug
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To: NKP_Vet
Hard to believe this these two self-promoting loudmouths were ever Navy Seals.... Rob O'Neill is on three or four times a week.

I have a problem with that also...especially since he was a member of a "TEAM"......

8 posted on 01/19/2016 12:48:26 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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All this secret squirrel James Bond complex is going to a lot of peoples heads. There is no reason we shouldn’t know it all.
By this standard we’d never know who flew the P-38s to shoot down Yamamoto, that Tibbets flew Enola Gay, who lead the Son Tay raid, etc.

All the beards, hype, masks and revenge worries seem mostly groundless. As far as i’ve ever heard the only legitimate threat after an action came to the Skipper of the USS Vincennes after the Iranian airliner.


9 posted on 01/19/2016 1:42:00 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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TTIUWP’s...


10 posted on 01/19/2016 1:54:20 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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