Bin Laden Shooter Recalls Fatal Moment to Fox: ‘We Just Ended the War’
Rob O’Neill remembered entering the bin Laden compound from the balcony, eventually walking down a third-floor hallway to a door where his target was hiding with his wife.
In a special interview with Fox’s Peter Doocy, the Navy SEAL recalled the thoughts running through his head at the moment he entered that fateful room:
Standing on two feet in front of me, with his hands on his wife, was the face that I’d seen thousands of times, UBL. My first thought was, we got him. We just ended the war.
O’Neill’s story aired in its first part on Tuesday evening, in which the SEAL remembered writing letters to his family, leading up to the mission, preparing himself for the possibility he would die. “There were a few times the tears hit the pages,” he said.
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The shooter also admitted to having wondered whether the bin Laden slaying was his greatest accomplishment. “I’m still trying to figure out if it’s the best thing I ever did, or the worst thing I ever did,” he said.
One brief clip shows a man saluting O’Neill for having “killed the devil,” as bin Laden himself had become the personification of evil.
Part two of “The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden” airs Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.
Watch a clip below, via Fox:
