The
narrative could be wrong in many other regards as well.
Bin
Laden 'killed while unarmed': SEAL book debunks official death story
A
firsthand account of the assassination raid against the former
Al-Qaeda head challenges the official US narrative, claiming bin
Laden was shot as he peeked out of his bedroom, unarmed. He did not
have a weapon or resist, as was announced.
RT,
29 August, 2012
The
Associated Press obtained a copy of the book, titled ‘No Easy Day.’
In it, former Navy SEAL Mark Bissonnette, using the pseudonym Mark
Owen and assumed names for the SEALs who participated in the mission,
described the 2011 raid in Pakistan in detail
His
position – right after the “point man” – gave him a chance to
clearly hear the “suppressed gunfire” immediately after the lead
SEAL had seen a “man peeking out of the door” on the right side
of the hallway.
The
author then described how bin Laden – the SEALs later made sure it
was him – ducked back into his bedroom. The SEALs followed, only to
find bin Laden 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.
“[We]
trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets
tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was
motionless," the book reads according to a report by the
Huffington Post, which also purchased a copy of the book.
The
SEALs later found two weapons stored by the doorway, untouched, the
author said. Neither weapon was loaded.
"He
hadn’t even prepared a defense. He had no intention of fighting. He
asked his followers for decades to wear suicide vests or fly planes
into buildings, but didn’t even pick up his weapon," Owen
wrote.
This
passage contradicts numerous reports that stated that bin Laden was
shot only after he returned to his bedroom, with the SEALs assuming
he was searching for a weapon. Instead, Owen wrote, he was unarmed
and had been fatally wounded before the soldiers had entered the
room. The book also refuted accounts that the SEALs were fired upon
while they were outside the gate of the compound, and that a
40-minute firefight ensued.
Another
revelation rebuts the accounts that bin Laden’s body was treated
with dignity before being given a full Muslim burial at sea. The
author described a cramped helicopter flight out of the compound,
with a SEAL named ‘Walt’ sitting on bin Laden’s chest as the
body lay at the author’s feet in the middle of the cabin.
Already
topping the bestseller lists of online shopping websites, the book
was set to be released on September 11. The publisher moved the
release date up a week to September 4, “in response to overwhelming
excitement'' from the public.
The
Pentagon announced on Monday that it is reviewing a copy of the
soon-to-be-published book for leaks of classified information, the
Associated Press reported.
Up
until now, the author had not submitted the book for the
pre-publication review that is required by the military secrecy
agreements officials claim the SEAL signed.
If
Pentagon officials determined that the manuscript revealed classified
information about the raid, the Department of Defense would “defer
to the Department of Justice,” the said. The former SEAL could then
face criminal charges
Photos
of Owen have already been posted on Al-Qaeda websites, alongside
calls for his murder, the AP reported.
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