"The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden" was the subject of a lengthy profile in Esquire magazine in February. The story didn't distinguish the executioner by his genuine name, alluding to him just as "the Shooter."
The Shooter told Esquire he experienced al Qaeda's chief up close and personal in the highest level room of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he'd been stowing away for over five years.
The shooter claimed that the al Qaeda leader was standing and had a gun "within reach," but it wasn't until then that he fired two shots into bin Laden's forehead, resulting in his death. That record was in a struggle with the story from one more strike member in a stunningly effective book, "No Simple Day."
Now, another secretive member of SEAL Team 6, which carried out the bin Laden raid, tells CNN that the Esquire account of the Shooter is false. The story is "complete B-S," this serving SEAL Team 6 operator asserts.
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