The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead in the US special
force’s most famous operation, the raid on a house on Abbottobad, in Pakistan,
on 2 May 2011, has been revealed by TheMail Online.
He is Rob O’Neill, a highly-decorated 38 year old, who quit
after 16 years service. He is scheduled to make an appearance on Fox News later
this month, reported Mail Online.
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.
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.
O’Neill grew up in Butte, Montana, a former copper mining
boomtown that has now fallen on hard times.
Tom O’Neill lives in a single story home with a garage full of
stuffed animals — including a bear, moose, caribou, big horn sheep and several
deer — shot by the two men. A full stuffed kodiak bear has place of pride in
his living room.
O’Neill has said the basic reason he became a SEAL was a teenage
romance gone wrong. At 19 he went to a Navy recruiter’s office in an attempt to
get over his lost love.
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