In February, Esquire magazine published a lengthy profile of "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden." The story did not identify the killer by his real name, referring to him only as "the Shooter."
The
Shooter told Esquire he encountered al Qaeda's leader face-to-face in
the top-floor bedroom of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where
he'd been hiding for more than five years.
The
Shooter said the al Qaeda leader was standing up and had a gun "within
reach" and it was only then that the Shooter fired two shots into bin
Laden's forehead, killing him. That account was in conflict with the
narrative from another raid participant in a wildly successful book, "No
Easy Day."
Now, another member of the
secretive SEAL Team 6, which executed the bin Laden raid, tells CNN the
story of the Shooter as presented in Esquire is false. According to this
serving SEAL Team 6 operator, the story is "complete B-S."
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