Staff Writer
Many current and former
special operations members are ridiculing former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill for
revealing that he shot and killed Osama bin Laden during the raid on bin
Laden’s secret compound in May 2011. Concerns were raised because O’Neill broke
The SEAL Code, which states, “I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor
seek recognition for my actions.” In an interview with the Associated Press,
O’Neill said, “The last thing I want to do is endanger anybody. I think the good
(of going public) outweighs the bad.”
O’Neill also says he
went public for the families of those killed in the events of September 11,
2001. “I just wanted to give them closure, knowing the man ultimately
responsible was brought to justice,” O’Neill said in an interview with Fox News
reporter Peter Doocy.
One woman told O’Neill
that he, “didn’t just close the chapter of the worst thing that ever happened
(to her),” but he “closed the entire book and she was not afraid anymore.” One
man told O’Neill of explaining to his friend’s daughter “Why did God do this?”,
and the man said to O’Neill, “God didn’t do this, the devil did this. And you
killed the devil.”
In regards to the raid
on bin Laden’s compound, O’Neill said that the team did what they did, “for the
single mom who went to work on Tuesday morning, and later that morning she made
the conscious decision to jump to her death because it’s better than burning
alive.”
You can watch O’Neill’s
interviews at:
