Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

We continue to follow the capture in killing of Osama bin Laden now.

Those are just some of the scenes over nine

as thousands of Americans gathered

in celebration of Osama bin Laden's death.

Former Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill

says he has thought about the mission every day since that May day in 20.

For multiple conversations you had with Rob O'Neill over the past year and a half,

how did you get actually...

And you described that his head kind of exploded when you hit him.

I actually hit him three times because I shot him twice when he was standing and once on the floor.

That is the fucking American bad.

Do you have there.

We are not going for fame and we are not going for bravado. We are going for the single mom who dropped her kids off at elementary school on a Tuesday morning and then 45 minutes later she jumped to her death out of a skyscraper.

If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.

I'm Rob O'Neill and this is the Operator Podcast. Like the man said, this is the Operator Podcast.

Like the man said,

this is the Operator Podcast. I'm your host Robert J. O'Neill, former special operator

in the US Navy. It's also the name of the book that I wrote, I think in 2017, The Operator.

And what I was meaning by the title, The Operator, is,

that is a memoir about the life of the operator.

In that case, for example, I was talking about the life of the operator

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