Sources involved in the operation that took down Usama bin Laden told Fox News the terrorist leader acted “scared” and “completely confused” in his final moments, “shoving his wife” at the Navy SEAL who ultimately shot him.
The information helps clarify the conflicting details about what exactly happened toward the end of the 40-minute raid on bin Laden’s northern Pakistan compound. Sources who were part of the mission said bin Laden acted in a “cowardly manner” when confronted. Fox News has also learned that while bin Laden was unarmed, he was standing near the door within reach of two weapons — an AK-47 and a Makarov handgun that are now in U.S. custody. The handgun is a 9mm semi-automatic Russian pistol, standard issue in the Russian military until 1991.
A senior U.S. official also told Fox News that only one of the five people killed in the raid was carrying a weapon and firing. The detail seemed at first to diverge from White House accounts claiming the Navy SEALs encountered resistance throughout the raid and were engaged in a firefight during much of the 40-minute operation. However, the scene was described as chaotic, with U.S. forces encountering barricades and women in the compound screaming and attacking the men.
Another U.S. official said there were “at least a half-dozen weapons” found at the compound. The first person the SEALs encountered at the guest house “immediately opened fire” before being killed, the official said. As the SEALs moved through the compound, bin Laden’s son Khaled rushed down from the third floor to the second floor and confronted the SEALs, who killed him. The U.S. team, in their training, had anticipated that bin Laden had a suicide vest and that the house was rigged. The official bristled at the notion that the compound was somehow an easy target with reports that only one person was armed.
“He was the one guy shot who had a gun in his hand and was firing when he was shot — other weapons were at the scene,” the official said. “When the SEALs reached the third floor, after resistance and physical barricades, Usama bin Laden did not immediately surrender. When someone like UBL who has said he wants to kill as many Americans as possible, doesn’t 150 percent surrender, you have to assess as a threat.”
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He’s dead, Jim.
Isn’t the Man of the House the Leader as viewed by the Torah World?? Why is this a story it certainly complies with the Velts perspective of Whose Who at HOME.
Boruch Hashem he didn’t surrender! It would have been a major complication to have to take him alive.
I’ld be very skeptical of the whole article. The only people who know were the SEALS, and they are unlikely to be betraying classified information to a journalist.
#4. They are debriefed after each mission, so there are more people than just the SEALs that now what happened. But you’re right, it is classified & no soldier is dumb enough to go around telling the news stations all the classified info.
That’s why I’m skeptical about the article starting off with: “Sources involved in the operation that took down Usama bin Laden told Fox News”
The soldiers divulged nothing.It was obviously fat-mouth Biden
The reason why most of them were unarmed was probably because they all had a sense of security being holed up there for 6 years. So when the SEALs came – they were unprepared.
Something tells me that if it would have been Mosad that took him down (under the same circumstances and results) there would have been an immediate UN inquiry investigating possible violations of international law.
Double Standard!!!
This whole story is a bluff
No. 3: Maybe he did surrender but they shot him anyway. I’d rather not think about that possibility.
Nos. 4,5 and 9: It’s from Fox News. How could you doubt them?
No. 6: Do you really think Joe Biden talks to Fox News? Or vice versa?