Identity of Bin Laden’s killer revealed

The former US Navy SEAL who killed Osama Bin Laden has revealed his identity in a two-part television interview which will be broadcast on Fox News next week, the Washington Post reports, according to RIA Novosti.

“People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public. I say I'll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us,” declared the soldier’s father Tom O’Neill in an interview published yesterday in the Daily Mail.

Rob O’Neill says he shot Osama Bin Laden three times at close range when SEAL Team Six executed a raid on the notorious terrorist’s compound in Abbottobad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. However, another Team Six operator interviewed by CNN gave an alternative account, in which the “point man” of the operation fired the shot that killed Bin Laden.

In an interview with Esquire last year, O’Neill chose to only be named as “the Shooter”, explaining that to name himself “would be counter to the team's code, and it would also put a huge ‘kill me’ target on his back.” However, O’Neill appears to have changed his mind. In the same report, Esquire detailed the financial and health problems faced by the former serviceman, who left the force four years shy of the 20-year period that he would have needed to have served in order to receive a Navy pension.