Conversation With Robert O'Neill, Author of 'The Operator: Firing The Shots That Killed Bin Laden And My Years As A SEAL Team Warrior'

I had an interesting conversation today with Robert O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama bin Laden, the evil mastermind of the horrendous 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001.

Robert O'Neill (seen in the below photo) is the author of The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior. 

I'm reviewing the book for the Washington Times and my interview with him will appear in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International.

I'll post both pieces here after they are published.

You can visit Robert O'Neill's website via the below link:

  http://www.robertjoneill.com/

Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Reveals The Way To Destroy ISIS ‘In A Matter Of Days’

 

Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times offers a piece on the views of former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill.

 

The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden predicts that President Obama will reverse course and order American ground troops into Iraq to fight the Islamic State terrorist army.

“Apparently these guys have a short memory, and they’re daring us to come back, and when we do, it will be over in a matter of days,” said former Chief Petty Officer Robert O’Neill.

Mr. O’Neill believes the president’s advisers have come to realize the beleaguered Iraqi Security Forces, without U.S. boots on the ground, are not capable of taking back all the territory seized by the Islamic State, including the country’s second-largest city — densely defended Mosul.

“We need to fight them,” Mr. O’Neill told editors and reporters at The Washington Times in an exclusive interview. “We don’t need to create jobs for them. If deterrence doesn’t work, which it’s not, you meet force with force at the point of origin. We need to do that, and we’ll do that. We just need to realize that is what needs to be done.”

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/19/robert-oneill-navy-seal-who-killed-bin-laden-fores/ 

Navy SEAL Who Allegedly Shot Bin Laden Says The Terrorist Leader "Died Like A Pussy"

Andrew Kirell at mediaite.com offers a piece on Robert O'Neill, the "Shooter" who says he shot Osama bin Laden.

Osama bin Laden “died like a pussy” who “knew we were there to kill him,” says ex-Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, who claims to have fired the lethal shots..

“You can quote me on this bullshit,” O’Neill said in previously-unreleased audio that aired on CNN Friday evening. The tape was recorded by freelance journalist Alex Quade.  

You can read the rest of the short piece and listen to the audio of the interview tapes via the below link:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/navy-seal-who-allegedly-shot-osama-bin-laden-he-died-like-a-pussy/

Former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill Reveals Himself As Shooter Who Killed Osama Bin Laden

 

Joby Warrick at the Washington Post offers a piece on the former U.S. Navy SEAL who revealed himself as the shooter who took out terrorist number 1, Osama bin Laden.

The Navy SEAL who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden is a highly decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who agonized for months over whether to publicly reveal his role in one of the most storied commando operations in U.S. history.

Robert O’Neill, 38, a Montana native, was near the head of the column of U.S. commandos who burst into bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout on May 2, 2011.

In a recent interview, O’Neill confirmed to The Washington Post that he fired the fatal shot that struck bin Laden in the forehead. He also acknowledged that shots were fired by at least two other SEAL team members, including Matt Bissonnette, who famously described the raid in the book, “No Easy Day.”

His impending decision had also fostered anger among colleagues.

In an Oct. 31 letter to the Naval Special Warfare ranks, B.L. Losey, the commanding officer, and M.L. Magaraci, the force master chief, emphasized that a “critical” tenet of their profession is to “not advertise the nature of my work nor seek recognition for my action.”

“We do not abide willful or selfish disregard for our core values in return for public notoriety or financial gain,” the letter said.

O’Neill said he confirmed his decision to go public after a private encounter with relatives of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on New York’s World Trade Center. During an emotional meeting with victims’ family members before the recent opening of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the former SEAL decided spontaneously to talk about how bin Laden met his end.

“The families told me it helped bring them some closure,” said O’Neill, whose identity as the shooter was independently corroborated for The Post by two SEAL team members.

You can read th rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-seal-robert-oneill-reveals-himself-as-shooter-who-killed-osama-bin-laden/2014/11/06/2bf46f3e-65dc-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html?wpisrc=nl-eve&wpmm=1