The Navy SEAL who says he pulled the
trigger on Osama bin Laden is speaking out for the first time to describe his
key role in the harrowing raid, and to say he feels abandoned by the military
he served for so long now that he's left the service, "the Shooter," gives the first eyewitness account in which
the al Qaeda leader is described as a direct threat right up until the moment
he was killed in early May 2011 in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"I'm just
looking at him from right here," the SEAL said, moving his hand about 10
inches from his face, according to Esquire. "He's got a gun on the shelf
right there, the short AK he's famous for. And he's moving forward... He's got
a gun within reach. He's a threat. I need to get a head shot so he won't have a
chance to clack himself off [blow himself up]."
"In that
second, I shot him, two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as
he's going down. He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him
again, Bap! same place... He was dead. Not moving. His tongue was out. I
watched him take his last breaths, just a reflex breath," the Shooter
said.
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