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Osama bin Laden was unarmed and dead, when US troops entered his room, reveals book

Washington, Aug 29: A firsthand blow-by-blow story of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden says the al-Qaeda chief was unarmed and already dead when the US special troops burst into his room in Abbottabad,

India TV News Desk Updated on: August 29, 2012 18:50 IST
Owen said as Osama lay dying, he and another commando “trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless.”




The book described Osama as wearing a white t-shirt, loose-fitting tan pants and a tunic. While photographing the terror leader's body, two guns were found in the room, but neither was loaded.

In the account given out by the US administration after the raid claimed that the SEALs shot Osama only after he ducked into the bedroom because they assume he may be reaching for a weapon.  

The book, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, was written anonymously under the name Mark Owen, who was one of the SEAL Team Six members who saw the terror leader die in May 2011.



A copy of the book, obtained by The Huffington Post, says that the mission was quite unlike the popular version of what went on at the house in Abbottabad.  

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