Washington: Mark Owen’s ‘No Easy Day’ refuted claims by U.S. officials who say bin Laden’s body was treated with dignity before being given a full Muslim burial at sea, AFP on Monday revealed the content of the book, written by a Navy seal who participated in the Bin Laden raid.
According to AFP, the author revealed that in the cramped helicopter flight out of the compound, one of the SEALs named “Walt” was sitting on bin Laden’s chest as the body lay at the author’s feet in the middle of the cabin.
In another possibly uncomfortable revelation for the US officials, Bissonnette, the real name of Mark Owen, revealed that Osama Bin Laden was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door.
Bissonnette says he was directly behind a “point man” going up the stairs. “Less than five steps” from top of the stairs, he heard “suppressed” gunfire: “BOP. BOP.” The point man had seen a “man peeking out of the door” on the right side of the hallway.
Bissonnette writes that bin Laden ducked back into his bedroom and the SEALs followed, only to find the terrorist 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.
Bissonnette says the point man pulled the two women out of the way and shoved them into a corner and he and the other SEALs trained their guns’ laser sites on bin Laden’s still-twitching body, shooting him several times until he lay motionless.
A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the mastermind of 9/11 attack, which killed almost 3000 people, presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.
In the account related by administration officials after the raid in Pakistan, the SEALs shot bin Laden only after he ducked back into the bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.
The book will be published on September 4, almost a week ago before the announced date of Sept 11. The book will be published earlier because of a surge of orders due to advance publicity that drove the book to the top of the Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com best-seller lists.
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