The ex-Navy SEAL who claimed he alone fatally shot Osama bin Laden is facing heat from colleagues who are challenging his version of events — and threats of legal action from military brass for revealing classified information.
Rob O'Neill said he fired the two-shot "double-tap" to the forehead that took bin Laden down, and then finished him off with a third shot, during the raid on the al Qaeda leader's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
In his account — which he will detail in a two-part Fox News TV special next week — the team's point man fired the first shot at bin Laden but missed.
The point man then hustled two of the terrorist's wives out of the way, allowing O'Neill to burst into bin Laden's bedroom and fire the fatal volley.
"There was bin Laden, standing there. He had his hands on a woman's shoulders pushing her ahead," O'Neill, 38, said in an anonymous interview with Esquire magazine in March.
"He looked confused . . . He had a cap on and didn't appear to be hit. In that second, I shot him two times in the forehead. Bap! Bap! He crumbled to the floor in front of his bed and I hit him again."
But another SEAL who took part in the raid, which was code-named Operation Neptune Spear, wrote that the point man wounded bin Laden with his first shot — and that he and another SEAL, believed to be O'Neill, then fired the fatal rounds.
"He was still twitching and convulsing," Matt Bissonnette, 38, said in his book, "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden," which he wrote under the name Mark Owen. "Another assaulter and I trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds."
Military bigs — furious over the soldiers' breach of the SEAL Ethos, or code of silence — threatened legal action against both men, according to the special-ops Web site SOFREP, which outed O'Neill after other SEALs, angry at his disclosures, provided his identity.
In a letter written after news of O'Neill's TV appearance was announced, the commander of Naval Special Warfare Command wrote that those who violate the Ethos "are neither teammates in good standing, nor teammates who represent Naval Special Warfare.
"A critical tenet of our Ethos is, 'I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions,' " he added.
The SEAL leader also said revealing classified information was against the law and that the command would seek "judicial consequences" for O'Neill and Bissonnette.
O'Neill on Friday shrugged off the controversy.
"Regardless of the negativity that comes with it, I don't give a f–k. We got him," he told CNN.
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