The Navy Seal Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Revealed

The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden
dead in the special force's most famous
operation can be named today.
The Navy hero is set to give a full interview to
Fox News later this month and waive his
anonymity but MailOnline has established that
he is Rob O'Neill, a highly-decorated veteran
who quit after 16 years service.
In an exclusive interview 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.
Questions have previously been raised over
the exact narrative of how bin laden came to
die, although the dispute centers on an
alternative account which claims O'Neill shot
him once, leaving him mortally-wounded and
the terrorist was killed by two other SEALs with
further shots to the chest rather than
forehead.
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.
Today details of his extraordinary military
record can be disclosed.
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.
But his father gave a different story in his
exclusive interview with MailOnline. 'We were
going hunting and a friend asked us to take a
guy who was a Navy SEAL with us,' said Tom
O'Neill, 65. 'We were expecting someone who
was 6 ft. 8 in. who could lift a house with his
bare hands, but he was this normal guy. And
Rob said if this guy could be a SEAL, then so
could he.'
In total he was deployed on more than a
dozen tours of duty in active combat, in four
different warzones, including Iraq and
Afghanistan.
In the course of those tours he undertook more
than 400 separate combat missions.