2014-12-24 10:07
Washington - The former US Navy Seal who claims to be the soldier
who fired the shots that killed Osama Bin Laden is being investigated
for possibly leaking classified information, the US military confirmed
on Tuesday.
US Navy spokesperson Ryan Perry said investigators
were probing claims that Rob O'Neill had broken the law by disclosing
details about the daring 2011 raid that ended a 10-year manhunt for Bin
Laden.
"The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is in
receipt of an allegation that Mr O'Neill may have revealed classified
information to persons not authorised to receive such information,"
Perry said in an email to AFP.
"In response, NCIS has initiated an investigation to determine the merit of the allegations."
O'Neill, 38, ignited a firestorm of controversy last month after coming
forward to claim that he was the man who shot Bin Laden through the
forehead at his hideout in Abbottabad three years ago.
The highly decorated Montana native told
The Washington Post that he was near the head of the column of US
soldiers that raided Bin Laden's compound, adding that at least two
other SEALs fired shots.
However O'Neill's decision to go public
dismayed military brass and serving SEALS who maintain a fierce,
Omerta-like code of silence.
Another former Seal, Matt
Bissonnette, who published his account of the raid, "No Easy Day" in
2012, took issue with O'Neill's version of events.
"Two different
people telling two different stories for two different reasons,"
Bissonnette said. "Whatever he says, he says. I don't want to touch
that."
O'Neill told the Post he had decided to come forward after
meeting with relatives of victims of the September 11 2011 attacks on
the World Trade Center in New York.
"The families told me it helped bring them some closure," O'Neill told the Post.
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