No Easy Day

The point man in the hallway sees a head peek out of the bedroom door and fires.

The ex-SEAL Matt Bissonette, writing as Mark Owen in No Easy Day, so he has a pen name, says that shot hit Bin Laden in the head and that he and another SEAL then fired into his chest as he laid on the floor.

Robert O'Neill, who came forward in 2014, says the point man missed.

That he walked in and saw Bin Laden standing with his hands on a woman's shoulder and that he fired two shots into his forehead and a third on the ground.

There's a couple that I like.

One, they're different, but one is No Easy Day, and it's a Navy SEALs book.

The thing I took out of that was what's the difference between an average person and a SEAL? And it's their mindset.

It's not, and, and the problems they face and, and, you know, one of them stated that I, if I sat there and thought about what was to come after these 50 pushups, I would never last.

Um, but I, I'm wondering whether we will find out it's not him.

One thing I, I, I, sort of puzzles me, um, when I read a great book called No Easy Day, and it was written by one of the U-US Navy SEALs who went into Abbottabad to kill Bin Laden.

And obviously you'll know that they, they essentially were obsessed with this figure they knew was in this compound in this place in Pakistan, which is quite near the, the Pakistani version of Sandhurst, actually, so [chuckles] it was right under their noses there.

And they, they couldn't work out how can they tell it's Bin Laden? They tried to, they tried to do a fake vaccine drive, which, in which they actually extracted the blood of some people to test to see if it was Bin Laden's relatives and so on.

Mark Owen is not his real name.

It is the name that he used to write a new book about the assault on bin Laden's compound, called No Easy Day.

Owen was on the helicopter that crashed into the compound.

He was the second man in Bin Laden's bedroom, and he took the pictures of the body that the world has never seen.

The raid, May 1, 2011, had been years in the making.

But in the moment, the best-laid plans failed, leaving a small team of Americans to improvise victory from near disaster.

This operation was one of the most significant operations in U.S. history, and it's something that I believe deserves to be told right and deserves to go in a book and stand for itself.

You're in disguise as we do this interview today, and I wonder why.