on 09-11-2014 11:03 AM
WASHINGTON – A growing number of former Navy SEAL team members claiming to have fired the shot that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has sparked a controversy within the uniformed ranks over military codes governing the role of America’s “silent warriors.”
Two years ago, Matt Bissonette, the author of the book “No Easy Day,” said in his account that he fired the shot that killed Mr. Bin Laden. Over the past week, overlapping accounts of the fatal shot have emerged.
On Thursday, a member of the military’s famed SEAL Team Six became the second member of the elite group since the 2011 raid in Pakistan to claim he was the shooter who killed Osama Bin Laden.Robert O’Neill, 38, told the Washington Post Thursday that he was the SEAL to fire the round that ended Mr. Bin Laden’s life.
Later Thursday, the New York Times reported that a third, unnamed Navy SEAL was the one who killed the al Qaeda leader.
Muddying the waters? Trying to keep a secret on the verge of being revealed by creating confusion? Is bin Laden even really dead? Remember there were no distinguishing pictures of his body, and the hurried burial at sea.
on 09-11-2014 01:19 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Muddying the waters? Trying to keep a secret on the verge of being revealed by creating confusion?
Or simply jumping on the band wagon, the body was probably riddled with bullets and no-one can say for certain who fired the fatal shot; but I guess that's too simple and logical an explanation for conspricy theorists.
Read a few accounts of The Battle Of Britain and see how many pilots claimed a "kill" for each plane shot down.
"Read a few accounts of The Battle Of Britain and see how many pilots claimed a "kill" for each plane shot down."
You confirm my point.
Who do you believe?
the body was probably riddled with bullets and no-one can say for certain who fired the fatal shot; but I guess that's too simple and logical an explanation for conspricy theorists.
on 09-11-2014 01:28 PM
I have no idea why it is even relevant....................... aren't things like that kept secret for many years?
Not much to be proud of, arguing about who killed him? really? .
on 09-11-2014 01:35 PM
@goldenjet16 wrote:
Who's they??
Everyone else.
on 09-11-2014 03:55 PM
on 09-11-2014 03:57 PM
on 09-11-2014 05:52 PM
on 09-11-2014 06:22 PM
If he was really dead long before they say he was, then I doubt they would have risked a confrontation with Pakistan (who is supposed to be their ally) by virtually invading that country in order to fake a killing. They would have chosen somewhere a lot less controversial.
on 09-11-2014 06:33 PM
on 10-11-2014 03:04 AM
on 10-11-2014 04:34 AM
10 Facts that prove the Bin Laden fable is a contrived hoax- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfbGXAmtmnc
Bin Laden died of marfan syndrome shortly after he was visited by CIA physicians at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001