Six months after his death, a new book has claimed Osama bin Laden was shot dead within 90 seconds of the start of a raid on his Abbottabad hideout by US commandos, and not after a 45 minute firefight, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Former elite US Navy Seal Team Six commander Chuck Pfarrer claims in his book that bin Laden was shot dead “almost instantly”, challenging the official version of how the al Qaeda founder died. The US Navy Seal Team Six carried out the raid in May. Pfarrer said, “Bin Laden was dead within 90 seconds of the start of the raid, not an extended firefight. Four suppressed rounds were fired.”
Claiming to have interviewed several men involved in the raid, he contradicted the official account of how the US Navy Seal team landed and how one of their Black Hawk helicopters crashed.
In a statement about his book, Pfarrer said, “The SEALs entered the building after being deposited on the roof by the lead helicopter, not from the ground. Minutes after bin Laden was dead the lead helicopter, heading for a landing spot, lost altitude and sunk, tail-first, into the large walled enclosure east of the main hous.” He said if the naval commandos had been forced to climb stairs to reach bin Laden, as the official claim goes, Osama would have been able to arm and effectively defend himself. He said Amal bin Laden, Osama’s youngest wife, was wounded in the calf during the second round of fire when she shoved herself in front of the shooters. The book says bin Laden’s long-time deputy Ayman Zawahiri may have been responsible for leading the US to his boss after he repeatedly sent a courier in and out of Osama’s compound.
Bin Laden was ‘dead in 90 seconds’
