Five Years of Bin Laden De@th
Five Years of Bin Laden De@th
Five years ago, Rob O’Neill chomped on a sandwich watching television at Bagram Airfield. Usama bin Laden’s dead body lay on a table next to him.
“I heard him say Usama bin Laden, I looked at Usama bin Laden – I thought, ‘How in the world did I get here from Butte, Montana?’” O’Neill said.
Even half a decade after bin Laden was taken out, little-known information about the operation and the hunt that led up to it is trickling in. O’Neill revealed Sunday that the much-publicized kidney ailment bin Laden was said to have and the dialysis machine he was said to have with him were merely counterintelligence myths propagated to weed out sources that were lying.
Bin Laden’s death, however, has not decreased the threat from Islamists.
John Brennan was the chief counterterrorism adviser to President Obama when O’Neill’s elite team stormed bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. Brennan is now the CIA director and faces a new nemesis, ISIS, and a new wily figurehead, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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