I worry this is becoming a slippery slope and it puts them in danger. Bissonnette's Texas-based lawyer in that lawsuit, Randy Johnston, said Tuesday that his client would have to return about $8 million that he made from the sale of the book. Potential Classified Information Disclosures: This is serious. O'Neill claims the fatal shot was . Look at the situation closely, analyze the motives, and arrive at your own conclusions. His second piece of work is a reaction to the Oscar-nominated film Zero Dark Thirty, which consulted former CIA director Leon E Panetta. Latest book reviews, author interviews, and reading trends. But his decision has been greeted with fury by the SEAL establishment. He thinks he might have.. Because I signed a piece of paper that said I cant talk about it, and I plan on keeping that commitment. He also conceded that criticism from other SEALs, even if theyre strangers, can be painful. ONeill shoots bin Laden in the face and kills him. I don't think we know who killed bin Laden. In my opinion, it appears to be an attempt to shift blame and anger from his former teammates (theyre mad as hell) to SOFREP and me. He says hes sorry he didnt submit the book for legal review, but says there are inconsistencies about who is allowed to talk and who isnt, since higher ups were apparently speaking freely. Whatever he says, he says. We don't ask the Taliban permission. According to the site, public revelations about the Bin Laden raid had led to a rift in the tight-knit community of America's special operations warriors. About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review under the charming heading of do things that dont interest you: Many things that end up being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. 'With most of his career shrouded in a classified cloak. The question we routinely ask ourselves as contributing editors of SOFREP is, Would participating in this network news TV segment represent ourselves and the SOF community in a positive way? We said no to the UBL Shooter drama and opted out. The film was released in February 2012 and capitalized on the bin Laden raid publicity. Ive never told anyone this until now. If you have questions about your account, please Questions have previously been raised over the exact narrative of how bin Laden came to die. The former member of the exclusive SEAL Team Six that . Science Monitor has expired. One other SEAL has previously gone public - Matt Bissonnette. Youll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com. Stay up to date with our daily newsletter, Navy SEAL Who Claimed He Shot Bin Laden Identified: Report, Navy SEAL Author Of Bin Laden Raid Book Under Investigation, Canada's Trudeau Denies Report That Liberals Told To Drop Candidate Over China Ties, After Italian Migrant Boat Wreck, Police Arrest Three Alleged Traffickers, 14 Chinese Military Aircraft Tracked Around Country, China's Annual Parliament To Implement Xi's Tightening Grip. Magaraci and commander Rear Adm. Brian Losey, made it clear that the vow of silence remains one of the most important tenets of SEAL life. He has received numerous awards and decorations, including two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. Matt Bissonnette wrote the best-seller "No Easy Day" under the pseudonym "Mark Owen." Others have consulted for filmmakers and video game designers. MailOnline yesterday revealed that Rob O'Neill, a retired 16-year veteran of the elite squad is the man who says he shot bin Laden in the head to kill him. It doesnt matter what the President or his staff said in this instance two wrongs dont make a right. I dont want to touch that.. Robert O'Neill's Twitter photos depict the member in SEAL attire. Last November, when O'Neill took credit for firing the shot that killed bin Laden, he also acknowledged at least two other Navy SEAL members, including Matt Bissonnette, shot at the al Qaeda leader. you are agreeing to our, One month free trial to theMonitorDaily, How these HBCU presidents fixed their colleges financial futures, Are you smarter than a US Marine? "Look, I don't want to be in charge, but if I was - oh I want to get the Americans? Support Veteran Journalism . Box 378 Red Hook, New York 12571 United States. Former Team Six member Matt Bissonnette, who wrote a bestseller under a pseudonym about shooting bin Laden, is about to publish his second book about being a Navy SEAL. MailOnline yesterday revealed that Rob O'Neill, a retired 16-year veteran of the elite squad is the man who says he shot bin Laden in the head to kill him. In a letter to past and present SEALs, Force Master Chief Michael. O Washington Post reporta que O'Neill reconheceu que ao menos outros dois soldados atiraram - e erraram - em Bin Laden, incluindo Matt Bissonnette, um ex-Seal que escreveu um livro em 2012 . For O'Neill, the threat is a devastating fall from a position as a national if unknown hero. An update on major political events, candidates, and parties twice a week. CNN reported than a 'senior US official' said the account 'has it right in my view'. 'We were expecting someone who was 6 ft. 8 in. Were the bran muffin of journalism. Get stories that empower and uplift daily. Even the slightest hint has the potential to compromise people, and in worst-case scenarios it gets them killed. It's insulting," he said. I worry about these gentlemen. I say I'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us O'Neill's father Tom on the SEAL being attacked by former commanders. Said Kirby, I'll just read for you the last paragraph: Within the Department of Defense, we did not identify instances whereby any Special Operations tactics, techniques and procedures-related information was provided to filmmakers., So, no. But since then, Robert O'Neill and another teammate Matt Bissonnette have been vying for the right to claim themselves as bin Laden's killer and the lucrative ability to sell their story. Some are outlandish, and some require a deeper look. The former Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden in the face during the 2011 raid on his compound wants the photos of the Al Qaeda leader's dead body finally released to the public. A Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden allegedly kept an unauthorized photo of his corpse, The Intercept reported Tuesday. When President Obama met with members of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six, following the 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, he asked them to identify the man among them who fired the shots that had dispatched the al-Qaida leader. People walk past Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed by U.S. Special Forces on May 2, 2011, the day after the raid. Bissonnette's lawyer, Robert Luskin, acknowledged Thursday that Bissonnette for some time had been under criminal investigation by both the Naval Criminal Investigation Service and the Justice Department for possible violations of a U.S. espionage law because he did not seek official clearance before publishing his book. 'We will actively seek judicial consequence for members who willfully violate the law, and place our Teammates, our Families, and potential future operations at risk.'. realistic spurs signings Log in to hide ads. 'I rolled past him into the room, just inside the doorway, 'There was bin Laden, standing there. His identity had been a. Veterans write books for many reasons and motives. After SOFREP reported on ONeills coming out party (dont shoot the messenger) on Fox news, SOFREP opted out of the UBL Shooter drama. By continuing to browse the site Its hard for me to take when I've been reading books my whole life about former special operations warriors, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. 'But again, the code of secrecy with these special operators would preclude that.'. The U.S. government has never confirmed which individual killed bin Laden. (Enemy Killed in Action). The account doesnt mention what the third SEAL did. " Rob " O'Neill (born April 10, 1976) is a former United States Navy sailor. Unlike ONeill, however, Bissonnette is under investigation by the federal government, which is trying to determine whether he disclosed classified information in his first book. O'Neill said on Friday that he could evacuate Americans from Afghanistan with "nine guys. When an RPG hit an American helicopter, Petty Officer Neil Roberts fell to an enemy-controlled mountaintop below. He was decorated 52 times, leaving as senior chief petty officer. Exercise your Constitutional rights (if any have earned that, its a combat veteran) however, dont break the law in the process. We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations. Robert O'Neill, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, speaks at the "Best of Blount" Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony at the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, Tennessee, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 6. Were run by a church, but were not only for church members and were not about converting people. The only other account by a named SEAL was given by Matthew Bissonnette, who wrote an inside account of the mission. Forty. O'Neill first made his version of events in anonymous form, in an interview with Esquire magazine. Fox News had not disclosed the newspaper's involvement when it announced the two-part interview last week. 'We're actually looking into changing my name,' his wife. The terror leader was standing up, and O'Neill said he saw a gun, the AK-47 which bin Laden was known to have, on a shelf. Who shot Osama bin Laden? Martin Gould for MailOnline "And Tiny told me the response: 'Here's how you get the Americans out. Neil Roberts was the first member of SEAL Team 6 to die in the Afghan war, and among the first elite operators who died after 9/11. How can you be holding it against me?. O'Neill spoke with Anne-Marie Green on CBSN about the 20 years since 9/11, what it feels . Today it became clear that other SEALs are about to accuse him of lying - although there is agreement that he was on the raid. Robert ONeill did not respond to an NBC News request for comment. Pentagon officials have said that it's not clear whose shots actually killed bin Laden. (But probably dating back to Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Von Moltke, whose rather less pithy remark was, No operation extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main body of the enemy.). We change lives. Its not our preference, nor is it in our best interests, to dig up dirt on SOF units or commands. Mezi leny tto jednotky byl Matt Bissonnette, kter spolu s dalm lenem tmu Seal Team 6, O'Neillem, tvrd, e provedl smrteln vstely. 19802023 The Christian Science Monitor. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public. But as is often said at the Pentagon, No plan survives contact with the enemy a quote variously attributed to Napoleon, Dwight Eisenhower, or George Patton. 3. Several accounts have claimed that an unnamed "point man" fired the fatal bullets that put down the Al-Qaeda leader. Rep. Peter King, R.-N.Y., called for an Inspector Generals investigation in August 2011 after learning of reports in the media that Bigelow and Boal had enjoyed access to government officials. Bin Ladens guards and several other household members were shot and killed. "And that's how you should feel. Two different people telling two different stories for two different reasons, said Matt Bissonnette in an interview with NBC News. Neither man is the SEAL who was first up the stairs at bin Ladens Pakistan compound and fired the first shot at Osama. Fragments of rounds fired as he and fellow US Navy Seals raided. More than three years after SEAL Team Six killed the terror leader, the elite group of warriors is at war with itself. The second time as he's going down. This website uses cookies to This is nonsense. Doesnt that seem odd to people? A SEAL whose identity still remains secret was the first man to reach the top of the stairs leading to the third floor of Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. I'm just gonna call him Tiny.". Bissonnette, who used the pseudonym Mark Owen, claimed that he had delivered the fatal shot to bin Laden after the point man had wounded him. Adam Brown: A SEALs Life of Courage and Redemption, Complete List: Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruisers To Retire By 2027, Nuclear Close Calls That Nearly Caused World War III, Russian Sausage Millionaire and Putin Critic Falls to His Death in India, Deadly Russian Rifle Brigade Wiped Out During War in Ukraine. Matt Bissonnette, a member of SEAL Team Six, wrote in his 2012 book No Easy Day that this point man was still on active duty and was bin Laden's true killer. 'I support him in everything he is doing,' said the twice-divorced older man. logged you out. I had no idea he was going to write about the UBL raid and not get it cleared through official channels. He went on to explain how he would go about rescuing Americans who are still in Kabul. Although it is not known if a similar operation is planned by the military, a SEAL Team Six 'operator' spoke to CNN in March 2013 to contradict the version of events O'Neill had then given anonymously to Esquire magazine. Fear? Join SOFREP for insider access and analysis. He donated his SEAL uniform to the museum's collection after the meeting, which was arranged by Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives for New York. Forty. 'A critical tenant (sic) of our Ethos is 'I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.' There's how many former generals, how many former CIA directors, how many former secretaries of defense? A former U.S. Navy SEAL and special warfare operator, O'Neill is best known for his claims that he had made in November 2014, of having fired the head shots that killed Osama bin Laden during the raid on his Abbottabad compound on May 2, 2011. The third floor had the most time to prepare a defense once the bottom floors were cleared, and seems like it would warrant more support. But upon his return stateside, ONeill identified himself as the trigger-man to members of the public while drinking in some favorite SEAL bars in Virginia Beach, VA. (This account was independently verified by a second source.) LordLoko 5 yr. ago That made it to the big screen as 'Lone Survivor.'. Posted on 25 fevereiro, 2023 by 25 fevereiro, 2023 by O'Neill et un autre marin, Matt Bissonnette, auraient ensuite tir sur Ben Laden alors qu'il convulsait sur le sol [7], [8], [9], [10]. Cool. Robert ONeill, the former SEAL identified in several news accounts as the shooter who fired the fatal shot to bin Ladens head at close range, now says it doesnt matter who did so during that US raid on bin Ladens compound hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. In Wednesday's segment, O'Neill said he encountered bin Laden after. As told to Phil Bronstein in Esquire magazine. Matt Bissonnette vs Robert O'Neill. I don't want to touch that." [deleted] 5 yr. ago [removed] RedditRolledClimber 5 yr. ago The team spirit that previously characterized the SEAL team now appears to be a relic of the past as former members of the elite U.S. unit are now locked in a public dispute over which of them fired the fateful rounds that ended Bin Laden's life. He also acknowledges that at least two other SEALS, including Bissonnette, fired shots. It addresses Fame (seeking recognition at the sake of the command or unit), Fortune (seeking to profit off of the command or units actions), and Ego (using team or unit accomplishments to inflate your own self importance). And Rob said if this guy could be a SEAL, then so could he.'. To suggest that I or anyone on this site is responsible for Bissonettes criminal investigation is ludicrous. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING VETERAN JOURNALISM - JOIN SOFREP+ , SNL creator Lorne Michaels to produce film about Navy SEAL UBL shooter Rob ONeill, PO Box 1077 MURFREESBORO, Tennessee 37133 United States, P.O. That appears to be a reference to unfounded claims of irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. The decision of O'Neill to go public and speak at length will prompt fresh examination of that version of events, in which the SEAL said that 'The Shooter', now known to be O'Neill, had fired the first,non-fatal shot at bin Laden and that other SEALs finished him off. It comes after Bissonnette submitted a draft of his second book - No Hero: The Evolution Of A Navy SEAL - for approval from the Department of Defense, including slides and notes from his speeches. I think it's something that all individuals who are participating or have knowledge of sensitive operations should follow, said Kirby. And Im going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. He has fulfilled a series of engagements across the United States since leaving the military. Were known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspapers founding in 1908. You can renew your subscription or O'Neill vyel veejn, aby si vzal zsluhy na zabit Usmy bin Ldina, rozhodnut, kter v adch Navy Seal nesedlo. Boal was part of the large audience. You can say, POTUS said this and POTUS said that, but you and I dont know what was or was not classified. Weve known about him for a long time. unless you renew or But the following frenzy on Bissonettes second 60 minutes appearance and the ONeill appearances have painted us into a corner of response. Bissonnette, a former Navy SEAL, signed a consent decree today acknowledging he "breached his fiduciary duties" by failing to submit his book for a security review by the Pentagon before publishing it and for failing to get the government's permission to publish it. In the Esquire interview his wife spoke about her concerns over a retaliatory attack. Robert O'Neill no o primeiro membro do famoso Team 6 a falar publicamente do raide para capturar ou matar Osama Bin Laden. Why would Bissonette do this? Overexposure in the Media:Publishing a book about the UBL raid so soon after, and coming out to openly talk to the press about the mission has created a media frenzy that comes with unexpected consequences. 2023 The SOFREP Media Group. The enemies will learn and will be better prepared.. You dont have a Christian Science Monitor A Defense Department official told NBC News Tuesday that at the Defense Department's request, the Justice Department is investigating whether Bissonnette revealed classified information. The narrative conflicted with many elements of Bissonnette's telling, and in his opinion it is the SEALs' story to tell. , updated O'Neill gently but firmly rejects this: "I chalk. According to the story, he says ONeill finished [bin Laden] off as he was circling the drain.. The staff has turned down over 40 TV interview requests from the likes of NBCs Today Show to Fox News. How do we know it was Robert O'Neil and not Mark Owens (Matt Bissonnette) who shot bin Laden? 2. 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