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Man who killed Osama Bin Laden felt sorry for his son after shooting terrorist in front of him

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Updated 17:27 19 Oct 2022 GMT+1Published 17:26 19 Oct 2022 GMT+1

Man who killed Osama Bin Laden felt sorry for his son after shooting terrorist in front of him

Former Navy Seal Robert O'Neill killed the most wanted terrorist in the world, but as a father he felt sorry

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

The man who took down Osama Bin Laden has said that he felt sorry for his son, after killing the terrorist in front of him.

Navy Seal Robert O'Neill recounted the famous 2011 Operation Neptune Spear on Joe Budden TV; and while he may have killed the most wanted terrorist in the world, the moment was not a joyous one - as Bin Laden's young son witnessed him being shot.

"I killed Osama bin Laden in front of his son," he said.

"I just killed Osama bin Laden, and I saw his two-year-old kid. And as a father, I just killed the number one terrorist in the world, and I looked at him and I thought, 'This poor kid has nothing to do with this.'

"And I actually picked him up... Put him over next to his mum on the bed. Two years old, nothing to do with it.

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"He didn't even know how to speak yet."

His version of events has been contested by other Seals.
Paul Hennessy/Alamy Stock Photo

The 46-year-old has previously recounted how exactly he remembers the killing going down.

Speaking on The Brilliantly Dumb Show in 2020, he said: "It hit me after I shot him. Bin Laden was pushing his wife towards me and I was three feet away from him. And I am looking in his eyes and thinking, that's his nose, that's him, he is not surrendering, he is a threat. I've got to kill him.

"I shot him over his wife Amal twice and then once again, and I pulled her towards me because you can sort of tell when there is a threat, and she wasn't a threat.

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"So I pulled her and as I'm moving her I can hear him taking his last breath, smoke out of his head where I just shot him."

Bin Laden was the most wanted terrorist in the world.
Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo

Robert's version of events is contested by other Navy Seals.

Matt Bissonnette, another member of the raid team, published a book entitled No Easy Day in which he said that he, Robert and 'the point man' found Bin Laden down and bleeding from the head after the latter fired shots from the stairway.

He said that he and Robert then fired shots into his dying body.

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Other Seals condemned both for sharing their stories, claiming they breached a code of quiet professionalism in pursuit of publicity.

Featured Image Credit: World History Archive/Alamy/YouTube/JoeBuddenTV

Topics: US News, Terrorism

Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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