Fog of publicity: Yet addition annual of Osama bin Laden’s afterlife emerges

As we’ve reported, SOFREP’s Brandon Webb questioned the account of “The Shooter” who told Esquire magazine that he’d been the “point man” in demography out the world’s most-wanted terrorist.  But now, CNN’s Peter Bergen corroborates Webb’s annual — added affidavit that we’ll apparently never apperceive the absolute accuracy about how it all went down:

SEAL Team 6 operators are now in “serious lockdown” if it comes to “talking to anybody” about the bin Laden arrest and say they accept been balked to see what they accede to be the inaccurate adventure in Esquire accept ample play afterwards a response. Phil Bronstein, who wrote the 15,000-word section about the Shooter for Esquire, was appointed on CNN, Fox and abounding added TV networks afterwards his adventure came out.

Twenty-three SEALs and their analyst assaulted the bin Laden admixture just afterwards midnight on the morning of May 2, 2011. They attempt and dead bin Laden’s two bodyguards, one of bin Laden’s sons and the wife of one of the bodyguards and they aswell blood-soaked two added women.

The aboriginal three SEALs to accomplish it to the top attic of bin Laden’s admixture area he was believed to be active were “the point man,” “the Shooter” profiled by Esquire, and Matt Bissonette, the SEAL who wrote “No Easy Day”under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

What in fact happened the night of the raid, according to the SEAL Team 6 abettor who I interviewed, is that the “point man” ran up the stairs to the top attic and attempt bin Laden in the arch if he saw what looked like bin Laden dabbling his arch out his bedchamber door. The attempt acutely blood-soaked al Qaeda’s leader.

Having taken down bin Laden, the point man proceeded to blitz two women he begin in bin Laden’s bedroom, acquisition them in his accoutrements to blot the access in case they were cutting suicide vests, something that was a absolute affair of those who planned the raid.

Two added SEALs again entered bin Laden’s bedchamber and, seeing that al Qaeda’s baton was lying acutely blood-soaked on the floor, accomplished him off with shots to the chest.

Bergen discussed this latest annual of the arrest on bin Laden’s admixture on “The Lead with Jake Tapper”: