Navy SEAL Says Obama Administration Account of Osama bin Laden Killing Not True
[caption id="attachment_3169" align="alignright" width="350"] SEAL Says Obama Administration Account of Osama bin Laden Killing Not True [/caption]From Day one, the Obama administration has been using the killing of Osama bin Laden as a political football, and now we are learning that more of the Obama administration's "official" account of the Bin Laden raid seems to be false.
The Obama administration's account of the Bin Laden raid said that Bin Laden was killed in a "firefight" with U.S. Special Ops, and that Osama Bin Laden was shot only after ducking back into the bedroom of the Abbottabad compound where the Navy SEALS thought he might have stored a weapon. The much more believable Navy Seals account of the raid says that there was no firefight, and that Bin Laden was already near-dead when they reached the room of the compound where he lay in a pool of his blood.
âAfter a firefight, they killed Usama bin Laden and took custody of his body,â - Barack Hussein Obama
The Obama account of the bin Laden killing also stated that Osama bin Laden's body was treated with dignity before being given a full Muslim burial at sea, but the Navy Seal account says that at least one soldier actually used the chest of Osama bin Laden's dead body as a seat for the helicopter ride home.
A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.
Bin Laden apparently was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs rushed up a narrow stairwell in his direction, according to former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen in âNo Easy Day.â The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)âs Dutton imprint.
Bissonnette says he was directly behind a âpoint manâ going up the stairs. âLess than five stepsâ from top of the stairs, he heard âsuppressedâ gunfire: âBOP. BOP.â The point man had seen a âman peeking out of the doorâ on the right side of the hallway.
The author writes that bin Laden ducked back into his bedroom and the SEALs followed, only to find the terrorist crumpled on the floor in a pool of blood with a hole visible on the right side of his head and two women wailing over his body.
Bissonnette says the point man pulled the two women out of the way and shoved them into a corner and he and the other SEALs trained their gunsâ laser sites on bin Ladenâs still-twitching body, shooting him several times until he lay motionless. The SEALs later found two weapons stored by the doorway, untouched, the author said.
In the account related by administration officials after the raid in Pakistan, the SEALs shot bin Laden only after he ducked back into the bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor would not comment on the apparent contradiction late Tuesday. But he said in an email, âAs President Obama said on the night that justice was brought to Osama bin Laden, âWe give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.ââ
âNo Easy Dayâ was due out Sept. 11, but Dutton announced the book would be available a week early, Sept. 4, because of a surge of orders due to advance publicity that drove the book to the top of the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com best-seller lists.
In another possibly uncomfortable revelation for U.S. officials who say bin Ladenâs body was treated with dignity before being given a full Muslim burial at sea, the author reveals that in the cramped helicopter flight out of the compound, one of the SEALs called âWaltâ was sitting on bin Ladenâs chest as the body lay at the authorâs feet in the middle of the cabin.
The publisher says the author used pseudonyms for all the SEALs.
Bissonnette also writes disparagingly that none of the SEALs were fans of President Barack Obama and knew that his administration would take credit for ordering the May 2011 raid. One of the SEALs said after the mission that they had just gotten Obama re-elected by carrying out the raid.
But he says they respected him as commander in chief and for giving the operation the go-ahead.
Bissonnette writes less flatteringly of meeting Vice President Joe Biden along with Obama at the headquarters of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment after the raid. He says Biden told âlame jokesâ no one understood, reminding him of âsomeoneâs drunken uncle at Christmas dinner.â
Beyond such embarrassing observations, U.S. officials fear the book may include classified information, as it did not undergo the formal review required by the Pentagon for works published by former or current Defense Department employees.
Officials from the Pentagon and the CIA, which commanded the mission, are examining the manuscript for possible disclosure of classified information and could take legal action against the author.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press, the author says he did ânot disclose confidential or sensitive information that would compromise national security in any way.â
Bissonnetteâs real name was first revealed by Fox News and confirmed to the Associated Press.
Jihadists on al Qaeda websites have posted purported photos of the author, calling for his murder.
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