Man who shot Osama bin Laden not repentant but in huge money trouble
The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden broke his silence today, recounting in an interview the three bullets he pumped into the Al-Qaeda leader and the financial anxiety he now faces as an unemployed civilian.
The commando kept his identity secret in the Esquire magazine profile but revealed his role in the daring May 2011 raid for the first time, as well as the worries he has for his family's security.
"He looked confused. And way taller than I was expecting," the SEAL says of Bin Laden. When the commandos came upon Bin Laden on the third floor of his Pakistani hideout, the Al-Qaeda mastermind had his hands on his youngest wife's shoulders, "pushing her ahead" and there was a AK-47 nearby.
"I don't know if she's got a vest and she's being pushed to martyr them both. He's got a gun within reach. He's a threat. I need to get a head shot so he won't have a chance to clack himself off (blow himself up)," the commando says.
"In that second, I shot him, two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! The second time as he's going down. He crumpled onto the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again, Bap! Same place," he says.
"He was dead. Not moving. His tongue was out." Another Navy SEAL who took part in the raid, Matt Bissonnette, offered the first eyewitness account last year in a book titled "No Easy Day," which drew the ire of Pentagon officials who accused him
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