Thursday, 28 March 2013
Osama bin ladens' death new stories arises.
There were "the Shooter" and"the Point
Man." Now a third member of SEALTeam 6
offers another account of the raid on
Osama bin Laden that led to his death in
2011.
The report from CNN appears to contradict
Esquire's widely circulated story,"The Man
Who Killed Osama bin Laden," by Phil
Bronstein.The unnamed source from CNN
calls the Esquire account"complete B-S."
The SEAL team member in the Esquire
profile, who was described simply as the
Shooter, claimed that he entered the
compound and found bin Laden with a gun
in reach and shot him.
"In that second, I shot him, two times in the
forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as he's
going down. He crumpled onto thefloor in
front of his bed. He was dead. I watched
him take his last breaths," the Shooter told
Esquire.
That account conflicts with the first-person
narrative from the bestselling book "No
Easy Day," written by Matt Bissonette under
the alias Mark Owen.
According to a third account fromthe
anonymous Navy SEAL Team 6 member
who talked to CNN, the Point Manrushed up
the stairs and shot bin Laden in the head,
gravely wounding him.
CNN adds, "Having taken down binLaden,
the point man proceeded to rush two
women he found in bin Laden's bedroom,
gathering them in his arms to absorb the
explosion in case they were wearing
suicide vests, something that wasa real
concern of those who planned theraid."
Two more SEALs then found bin Laden
wounded on the floor, and shot him in the
chest. CNN's source said there was no way
the Shooter could have seen a gun in reach
of bin Laden -- since a gun was only
discovered in the the suspected terrorist
leader's room after a thorough search.
This account appears to square with the
one in "No Easy Day," which asserts the
Point Man took the first shots. Bissonette
writes in his book that he was one of the
members to shoot bin Laden as he lay on
the floor.
Bronstein, when contacted by CNN, said he
had passed along the questions around the
raid to his source but had not heard back.
But according to CNN's Peter Bergen, there's
no "I" in this SEAL team: He writes that in the
briefing to President Obama post-raid, the
members explained, "If you took one
person out of the puzzle, we wouldn't have
the competence to do the job wedid;
everybody's vital. It's not about the guy
who pulled the trigger to kill bin Laden, it's
about what we all did together."
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