Ex-US Navy SEAL, Who Claimed To Have Killed Osama Bin Laden, Arrested In Texas

Former US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who claimed to have killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, was arrested in Texas for allegedly causing body injury.

O'Neill came under the spotlight when he took credit for firing the shots that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

Source : PTI

Former US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who claimed to have killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, was arrested in Texas last week for allegedly causing body injury, reported The New York Post. Earlier on Wednesday, he was booked in Frisco and was later released after paying a USD 3,500 bond on the same day, cited the daily newspaper. Notably, authorities booked Neil on a Class A misdemeanour charge of assault and a Class C misdemeanour of public intoxication. Meanwhile, the jail documents have only listed the assault charge.

O'Neill came under the spotlight when he took credit for firing the shots that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden during a US covert raid in Pakistan in the year 2011. He revealed these details of the purported operation in his 2017 memoir "The Operator".

Notably, the US government never confirmed or denied his side of the story in the past, the report added. Meanwhile, O'Neill's latest arrest is far from his first run-in with controversy. In 2016, authorities busted him for drunk driving in Montana, but the charges were later dropped.

The mastermind behind the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, Osama bin Laden, who was living in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, was killed in a raid at his hideout in May 2011 by US Navy seals.

In the past, one of the sons of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden also claimed that his father was training him to follow in his footsteps, making him fire guns as a child in Afghanistan and using his dogs to test chemical weapons.

In an interview with ‘The Sun’ newspaper while on a visit to Qatar, Bin Laden’s fourth eldest son Omar claimed he was a "victim" and tried to forget the "bad times" with his father.

The 41-year-old, who now lives with wife Zaina in Normandy, France, recalls Bin Laden telling him that he was the son chosen to carry on his work. He, however, chose to leave Afghanistan in April 2001, just months before the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York, an ANI report said.