In action: A rare picture of O’Neill as a serviceman shows him in uniform in Liberia, where the Navy was involved in operation to stabilize the war-torn country. (Daily Mail)
Posted on 11/06/2014 3:38:26 AM PST by servo1969
The Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden has been identified.
In action: A rare picture of O’Neill as a serviceman shows him in uniform in Liberia, where the Navy was involved in operation to stabilize the war-torn country. (Daily Mail)
Rob O’Neill, a team leader of Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is currently a circuit speaker.
Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill’s mantra is “Never quit.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJYdTobSTsY
Rob O’Neill shot Osama three times in the head.
The Daily Mail reported:
The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead in the special force’s most famous operation can be named today.
The Navy hero is set to give a full interview to Fox News later this month and waive his anonymity but MailOnline has established that he is Rob O’Neill, a highly-decorated veteran who quit after 16 years service.
In an exclusive interview Rob’s father, Tom O’Neill, tells MailOnline, ‘People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public. I say I’ll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us.’
Rob O’Neill, 38, is a former member of SEAL Team Six who has been portrayed on screen in Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.
He is one of the most distinguished members ever of the elite force – but now faces being frozen out of its circles for revealing its most closely-held secrets.
O’Neill was personally congratulated for killing bin Laden – in his account at close range with three shots to his forehead – during the SEAL raid on Abbottobad, in Pakistan, on 2 May 2011.
Questions have previously been raised over the exact narrative of how bin laden came to die, although the dispute centers on an alternative account which claims O’Neill shot him once, leaving him mortally-wounded and the terrorist was killed by two other SEALs with further shots to the chest rather than forehead.
O’Neill’s decision to speak out was prompted by losing some of his military benefits by quitting the SEALs after 16 years rather than staying for a full 20 years of service.
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Even if it was, do you want to guess why? bin Laden hadn’t been seen or heard much for a long time, so it was probably a matter of do the mission, wait a little to see if anyone from al qaeda cares he’s at least missing, then run the story. I believe it’s true that bin Laden was dead. I doubt that anyone from al qaeda cared much for him at the time. If the operation was a fake, well then it probably was because he wasn’t talking and possibly dead and we couldn’t find the corpse.
Like millions of others, I’d like to buy O’Neill a beer. God Bless this patriot!
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