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The pentagon has dropped a claim against a former navy seal who wrote about his experiences in the us raid that killed osama bin laden, after he agreed to forfeit earnings from the. Washington the navy seal who wrote an account of the raid that killed osama bin laden under a pseudonym was identified thursday as matt bissonnette, who retired from the navy last summer. The bin laden book proved to be a very different sort of undertaking. Another seal on the bin laden mission, matthew bissonnette, wrote the. William mcraven, who oversaw the raid on osama bin laden s home, says as it went beyond the planned time, he feared pakistani forces might find u. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a u. Sep 06, 2012 ex seal who wrote book on bin laden gets written off by cadre. Matthew bissonnette, the former navy seal who participated in the raid that killed osama bin laden and wrote a tellall book about it, has. The book was written by matt bissonnette under the pen name mark owen. Firing the shots that killed osama bin laden and my years as a.
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Bin laden raid tellall author revealed, questions raised. What the bin laden raid teaches about project execution. New york the muchanticipated firsthand account of the navy seals raid that killed osama bin laden reveals the terrorist leader was unarmed and was already dead with a bullet to the brain when the seals entered his bedroom in the compound at abbottabad, pakistan the book calls out inaccurate accounts of the assault. During the gunfight, bin laden was killed by two shots to the left side of his face. The us navy seal who has written about the raid that killed osama bin laden has done a service to openness and accountability by publishing his account, writes mark urban.
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