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“Looked Like a Coward” - Osama Bin Laden’s Death & The FINAL Shot w/ SEAL Team Six's Robert O’Neill

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Robert O’Neill recounts the raid that killed Osama bin Laden: training, on-the-fly tactics, the moment of contact, and the aftermath. He credits the CIA targeter behind the lead, details Fort Campbell debriefs, and addresses Extortion 17 and conspiracy claims.

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0:00.0

So you're there, you're walking in, you've said this before, you've said he looked like a coward when he took him out.

0:06.2

Yeah.

0:06.4

Right?

0:06.7

I think you said he was a coward. He acted like a coward. It reminds me of the speech President Trump gave after, who was it, Al-Baghdadi? Yes. He died like a dog. Died like a dog. Like a nice little dog. But he was crying. And he was doing this.

0:18.9

He got like a coward, you know, and he kept going and going and going, right?

0:22.6

With this whole, the he was crying. He was doing this. He died like a coward, you know, and he kept going and

0:21.6

going and going, right? With this whole, the video that many of us have seen hundreds of times, it's almost comical when they do it, right? Yeah, when they do it side by side. Yeah, when they do it. And they say, this is how Obama announced the person died, and this is how Trump. Trump in 48 minutes, Obama went like eight minutes or whatever it was and he moves on, right? For you, when you're there,

0:40.9

I've heard the story. Trump. Trump in 48 minutes, Obama went like eight minutes or whatever it was, and he moves on, right?

0:37.8

For you, when you're there, I've heard the stories many different times.

0:43.3

I've watched, you know, the podcast that you've done.

0:46.2

How much training did you guys do going up into this where the preparation of going in was

0:52.6

role played so many times?

0:53.9

Or because you don't know if the guy's moving that many times, it's a lot of audibles. You have to call last minute. It's more audibles reading off of each other. Like when I get asked, how did you guys clear a compound that big? Because we mastered the basics. If you get really good at the easy stuff, you're going to be fine. There's no need to talk yourself into an ass kicking.

1:12.8

So when I get asked that question, how'd you do it? I'm like, well, the guy in front of me went left, I went right, and we just did that over and over. So we were, just because of the combat. When we first started going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we just changed our tactics because basically before 9-11, there was fighting, you know, Grenada and Panama and a little

1:30.4

bit in Desert Storm, but we were using Vietnam tactics. Once we started getting shot at by real

1:34.2

people in mountains and desert, you've got to change everything up. But when we were told this team

1:37.9

who'd been probably 400 combat missions each, but we'd all been working together at least for 10

1:42.9

years each, when they said, when the commanding officer, SEAL Team 6 had us in a room and finally said, the reason you guys are here is because this is as close as we've ever been to Osama bin Laden, the common answer was cool, or can we go right now? Because we didn't need to train for it. Like we're ready to go. We know what we're doing.

2:19.0

Obviously, the pilots are going to need to know the routes, or they're going to design the routes. They need to know where we're going what the mountains are. But yeah, we were completely ready for it, and it wasn't. We trained on the outside. They had constructed a compound that looked like the outside so we could get used to seeing what the exterior looked like. But the second anyone tried to say, well, here's what the inside.

2:21.3

Don't tell me what you think it looks like because it won't.

2:24.9

Don't tell me how many men, women, and children are there.

2:28.0

Tell me how many people you've seen and I will figure it out when I get there.

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