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Im bob. Lked at the tax store. I did your taxes. Well, i thought you were a tax expert. female announcer reading . Than all major tax stores combined. Pelley good evening. Im scott pelley. Welcome to 60 minutes presents. Tonight, you will hear from one of the men who shot Osama Bin Laden. Mark owen recently left the navys elite counterterrorism unit, Seal Team Six. Mark owen is not his real name, but its the name that he used to write his book no easy day about the assault on bin ladens compound. We first brought you his story in september. Owen was on the helicopter that crashed into the compound. He was the second man in bin ladens bedroom. And he took the pictures of the body that the world has never seen. Owen received a silver star for valor and a purple heart for a wound suffered in the raid. But despite all that, owen told us, in his only interview, that no easy day is not about him. He says its a tribute to the hundreds of americans who gathered intelligence, planned and trained in the tenyear pursuit of the worlds most wanted man. Seal team six, he told us, just took care of the last 40 minutes. Was this a mission. Was the plan to kill Osama Bin Laden or capture him, before you went in . Mark owen this was absolutely not a killonly mission. It was made very clear to us throughout our. Our training for this that, hey, if given the opportunity, this is. This is not an assassination. You will capture him alive, if. If feasible. Pelley that was the preferred thing . Owen yes. Pelley to take him alive, if you could . Owen yeah, yeah. I mean, were not. Were not there to assassinate somebody. We werent sent in to. To murder him. This was, hey, kill or capture. Pelley this is a firsthand account from someone who was there. The raid, may 1, 2011, had been years in the making. But in the moment, the bestlaid plans failed, leaving a small team of americans to improvise victory from near disaster. Owen this operation was one of the most significant operations in u. S. History. And its something that i believe deserves to be told right and deserves to. To go in a book and stand for itself. Pelley youre in disguise as we do this interview today, and i wonder why. Owen the focus shouldnt be on me; the focus should be on the book. Im not trying to be special or. Or a hero or anything. Im just trying to tell the bigger story. Pelley but youre in disguise also for your own security . Owen yeah, absolutely. Pelley tell me about that. What concerns you . Owen you know, the enemy has a long memory. Pelley and so we spent a long time perfecting a new look for owen. Before each interview, the best artists spent four hours thoroughly changing his appearance. Weve used shadows to enhance the effect and weve altered his voice. Chief petty officer owen was in the navy 14 years. He had read about the seals in Junior High School and set his sights. How many times have you been to war since 9 11 . Owen ive done 13 combat deployments. Pelley afghanistan . Owen afghanistan, iraq, all over. Pelley there are several seal teams, but owen rose to the very top, a unit called the Naval Special Warfare Development group Seal Team Six. Seal team six is made up of a number of squadrons, and i wonder, why was your squadron chosen for this particular mission . Was there Something Special about you . Owen nope, nope. Certainly nothing special about me, nothing special about the 24 guys that were chosen, nothing special about the. Our squadron. It really could have been any number of guys. Pelley you just happened to be available for training. Owen yes. Pelley in april, 2011, theyd just returned from afghanistan when they were told to report to North Carolina for an exercise. Give me the lay of the land. Owen walked into a top secret briefing room, saw a model of a compound, and heard this from his buddies. What did they say . Owen said, hey, we found bin laden, or, we think we found bin laden. And they want us to. To come up, you know, rehearse and come up with a plan. If theres gonna be a ground option approved, they want us to rehearse for one. Pelley what did you think . Owen awesome. Pelley the mission was Operation Neptune Spear under the authority of the c. I. A. The agency had tracked a bin laden courier to a curious compound in abbottabad, pakistan. Theyd been watching the compound with satellites. The house seemed too big for the neighborhood. There was no telephone connection. The people there burned their trash. There was a wall 12 feet high, and a walledin balcony. Who lived up there . Owen they briefed us on the individual they were calling the pacer. Pelley the pacer . Owen the pacer. So, hed come out of the house and walk around the yard, what was assessed as just kind of getting exercise. Pelley where did the pacer pace . Owen over here. Pelley in this courtyard back here . Owen right. So, hed just kind of walk out in here. And a lot of the. The vegetation out here was probably purposely planted so surveillance couldnt. Couldnt see down on them. Pelley and hed just go round and round and round. Owen yup. Hed walk around the yard. Sometimes, hed walk with what they assessed to be a female, but, yeah, the. They just walked around the yard. They never stopped to help anybody do any work. If there was other people in the yard working, he never seemed to do any of that. Its above. Almost above it. Pelley above doing the manual labor. He was the boss, whoever he was. Owen right. Pelley the pacer had been in abbottabad about five years. Its a welltodo city of one million people. The compound was about a mile from the Pakistani Military academy. In terms of the inside of the house, how much did you know . Owen zero. Zero. Pelley so once you went through the door, you didnt know what you were going to be facing . Owen right. But, again, it goes back to that years of experience. I mean, weve done this a million times. Pelley raids like this were common many nights in afghanistan and iraq. And looking at the model, the seals didnt think of this as particularly challenging. The tricky part was getting there. The u. S. Wasnt telling pakistan, so the helicopters could be shot down by pakistans modern air defenses. The pilots were from the armys 160th special Operations Aviation regiment. Two modified blackhawks call signs chalk one and chalk two would drop 24 seals and a Belgian Malinois combat dog named cairo. Owen chalk one, which is the one i was on, was going to hover over the compound here. We would drop the two fast ropes, slide down the ropes into the courtyard here, and then go about our business while chalk two would land out here, just over here by the road. Drop the external Containment Team off. They would provide security external. Wed have a. Two men and our. Our combat assault dog would do a quick patrol of the perimeter down to the south and around to make sure that there was no tunnels underneath the wall, if somebody did hear us come in and had time to escape. After dropping those guys off, the second helo was going to come up, hover over the third floor, drop off the remaining guys. They would then hop right down into the balcony, assaulting from the top down, and our guys would assault from the bottom up. Pelley a few days after getting the mission, they had their plan, and so began weeks of rehearsals on a fullsize version of the compound built in North Carolina. How many times did you assault it . How many times did you train on it . Owen a lot. Between when we got the mission and when we left for afghanistan, we probably, you know, get. Probably get 100 times. Pelley so, how unusual was this kind of training . Owen yeah, very unusual. Ive never. Ive never had all the mockups. Ive never rehearsed for something for three weeks. Pelley one rehearsal had an audience the nations highest ranking officer, admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs; the head of special operations, admiral eric olson; and observers from the white house. Owen one of the things that i liked after the fact was, i remember admiral mullen coming by and talking to each one of us, and then admiral olsen as well. And i thought that was cool that, you know, they walked by, shook each of our hands and said, hey, are you guys ready . Can you guys pull this off . And im pretty sure, to a man, we all said, yes, absolutely. Pelley the team got several days off at home around easter. Then, in late april, about a month after they got the mission, they loaded on a plane bound for a u. S. Base in afghanistan. The president wasnt convinced yet. No one confirmed that bin laden was the pacer, so Seal Team Six was on standby. One of the passengers on their plane was a c. I. A. Analyst who had spent five years on bin ladens trail. Owen i cant give her enough credit. I mean, she. In my opinion, she kind of teed up this whole thing, and is just, you know, wicked smart, kind of feisty. And she was. You know, wed always talk back and forth, hey, what. You know, what do you think the odds of this are . What do you think the odds of that are, you know . And, hey, you know, what you do think . Think hes there . Shes like, 100 . 100 hes there. Pelley and you thought what . Owen well, well see. Pelley three days later, on april 30, the president was telling jokes at the annual white house correspondents dinner. C. I. A. Director leon panettas belly laugh was heard all across the room. Reporters in ball gowns and tuxedos had no idea that, just a few hours before, president obama had ordered panetta to launch the raid. Mr. Obama kept to his schedule, thinking that, on this night, it was better to have reporters drinking and laughing than asking questions. When did you first hear that the president had approved your mission . Owen the Commanding Officer of our. Our command walked in and said, hey, just got off the phone. The missions approved. Pelley what did you think . Owen this is big. This is cool. Im glad im a part of it. Pelley the raid was supposed to be april 30, but the weather was bad. The next night, vice admiral William Mcraven saw the men off. He was a seal, and he had planned the mission as head of the joint special operations command. Just before midnight, the blackhawks started the sprint from the u. S. Base in jalalabad, afghanistan, to abbottabad, about 150 miles away. The helicopters were blacked out against a clear, moonless night. The army pilots, guided by night vision goggles, flew high speed, treetop level, under pakistani radar. Owen it was roughly an hour and a half. I remember. You know, we took off, shut the doors, and. And the radio call i heard was. You know, hey, were. Were over the border. Were crossing the border into pakistan. And i remember thinking, wow, this is. Okay, this is happening. And. And i swear, i glance around the helicopter and. And half the guys are sitting there asleep on the ride in. It was an hour and a half ride, so guys got to catch. Catch a few zs on the way in. Pelley wait a minute. Your team is flying in to Osama Bin Ladens compound, and theyre asleep . Owen yeah, no, its your. Its your time to just kind of shut your eyes, relax, you know . Mentally walk through whatever you need to walk through. Pelley it was about 1 00 in the morning, 66 degrees, 65 humidity, with calm winds. Owen at one minute, we open the door, and i just kind of swung my legs out and im sitting there looking down. Im thinking, wow, you know, this is a beautiful. This is a beautiful spot houses with pools in the backyard, well lit. Manicured yards. Like, wow, this is definitely not, you know, the mud huts of afghanistan. Pelley somehow, there was a blackout in the neighborhood. No one will say whether that was luck or design, but it meant ideal darkness for the seals with their night vision goggles. You could see the compound coming . Owen uhhuh. Pelley you had the door to the blackhawk open . Owen uhhuh. Pelley and your legs were swung outside . Owen right. Just make a little more room, be faster to. You know, quicker for everybody to get out and fastrope out of the helicopter. So everybodys getting ready to fastrope. And then, all of a sudden, we banked hard 90 degrees, and then we. Once we went hard 90, it was very apparent that some. Something was wrong. Pelley owen doesnt know what went wrong, but pilots say that a chopper can lose lift when it drops into the turbulence of its own downdraft. And the turbulence would have been much worse because the downdraft was being magnified and reflected by the compounds walls. Owen these pilots are the best in the world. You dont. You dont get better than these guys. And. And typically, they just, boom, they move right in and they stick it. It. It was like parking a car for these guys. And it was. It was a rough. It was a rough ride. We were pretty low, tail rotor and everything happened to miss this wall here, and then we were just kind of sliding and falling out of the sky this way. I was now in the front of the helicopter although i was sitting on the left side, i was now the front. My buddy right behind me, he pretty much should have fallen out. If it werent for him hanging on to me, there is a good chance i would have been thrown from the helicopter. 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Start today with a free oneonone review of your retirement plan. Pelley the raid on bin ladens house was supposed to be straightforward. Two helicopters, call signs chalk one and chalk two, carried 24 members of Seal Team Six, each man hauling 60 pounds of gear. One Group Planned to slide down ropes onto the roof of the house. Mark owens Group Planned to rope down into the courtyard. But owens Helicopter Crashed, and now everything was changing for the most important Counter Terrorism assault in u. S. History. Tell me about the crash. Owen the pilot mentioned. You know, i remember him mentioning in the rehearsals, like, you know, if i have to ditch this thing, im going to try and put it down in this courtyard. So that. Thats exactly what he did, you know . You can tell what he did, you could hear the helicopter winding up. Pelley he was putting all the power on it he could, but it wasnt helping. Owen no, nothing. Came in and impacted boom. Had the angle been more, the rotors wouldve hit the ground, snapped off, and caused us to roll. Had the tail rotor hit, obviously, it wouldve broke and caused us to break and roll. The loadbearing section of the tail landed precisely on the wall. Pelley the strongest part of the tail just happened to land on the wall . Owen yep. And the angle happened to be perfect. It all came down to inches really, inches either way. We stopped. The main rotor blades are still turning. I dont think you could recreate that if you tried. Pelley lucky. Owen lucky, but again, huge props to these pilots. I mean, everybody wants to meet the guy who shot bin laden. I want to meet the pilot. I mean, i wouldnt be here if it werent for him. Pelley if the pilot had not brought your helicopter down intact, would the mission have failed . Owen no, i dont think so, because chalk two was on the ground. And as soon as they saw us crash land, that chalk two helicopter pilot saw that happen, decided not to push the position to go to the roof. And thats one thing that admiral mcraven said in one of our very last rehearsals, briefs, dry runs, right there in afghanistan before we launched. He stood up and he said, hey, listen, dont try any fancy stuff. Just get the guys on the ground and theyll figure it out. Pelley you mention in the book that one of the army pilots that was flying your team looked to you to be about 50 years old . Owen he was definitely a little older. Pelley but i guess, in this line of work, its experience that matters. Owen yeah. Yeah. Hes probably been flying longer than ive been alive. So theres nothing wrong with that. Pelley they had planned to be on the ground 30 minutes, but now, they were running late. Owens team landed in this courtyard walled off from the house. So, your team does what . Owen i ran out here. I turn around and look, and i see the guys on the left side of the helicopter. Theyre sitting right at. Staring at the front door. So, they simply hop out and go right to the front door like nothing happened. Pelley go right to this door here . Owen yep. Pelley the other helicopter landed outside the perimeter wall, dropped all of its seals, and took off. Now, whats your objective . Whats your team supposed to do right now . Owen we were securing and clearing the southern compound. Pelley you expect to find people in this building . And you want to clear that building so the rest of the team can do what they need to do in here . Owen exactly. I think what. What seals are good at is. Is what i consider pickup basketball. We all know how to play the game. You know, our. You hear the saying in the team says, can you shoot, move, and communicate . So, we all know how to shoot. We all know how to move efficiently and. And tactically. And we can communicate clearly. So, when something goes sideways, were able to play the pickup basketball and just kind of read off each other. Pelley now, the seals were in several groups. One group was outside the perimeter wall to make sure no one escaped. The group that was supposed to rope to the roof was outside the wall looking for a way in. Owen led his team to the outer building where they expected to find one of bin ladens couriers. Owen we got to the door. Obviously, we made tons of noise at this point. It had taken a little longer to get there. So, you know, the element of surprise is. Is slipping away quickly. And we got to the. The double doors. I tried it once real quick. It was locked. My buddy was with me. Hes carrying a sledgehammer, pulls it out, gives it a couple good swings, nothing. Doors not going anywhere, kind of solid metal. So im like, okay, were going explosive. We all carry explosive charges. I. I pulled one off, got on my knee, and started setting it. And. And right as i was attaching it, rounds started coming through the door at us. Pelley somebody started shooting at you from inside the house . And the. And the bullets were coming through the door . Owen yep. Immediately, my buddy who was. Who was standing up started returning fire. I could. Yeah, i kind of rolled away from the door, blindly returned fire back through. You couldnt see what was on the other side. And then, it went quiet. Thankfully, the seal that was there with me that. Initially returned fire with me. Spoke arabic. So he immediately started calling out to the people inside, started hearing the metal latch on the inside of the door. Are they going to come out with a suicide vest . Are they going to throw a hand grenade out . Are they going to, you know, spray their a. K. . Door opens up, a female holding a kid, couple kids right behind her. Pelley you got your finger on your trigger, and youre looking at a woman with her children. Owen yeah, yeah. Split second. I mean, we had just received fire. My buddys speaking arabic, and. Hes asking her, you know, hey. Wheres your husband . Whats going on . She. And. And she replies back to him, hes dead. You shot him. Pelley owen didnt notice until later, but he was bleeding, a shoulder wound from a fragment of something in the firefight. Owen yeah, i just got a little piece of frag in my shoulder from some of the rounds that came through. It wasnt a major wound at all. But i carry a set of bolt cutters to cut locks with. When i got back, you know, i was checking my gear, seeing if theres any holes or anything, and. And i pull out the bolt cutters, and ive got the bullet stuck in the handle. So, the bullet just. Just missed me by a little bit, and the handles stick up either side of my head. Pelley right by your neck. But you dont consider that to be a big deal . Owen no, plenty of other guys have suffered much, much worse, so its not a big deal. Pelley within five minutes, owens team cleared the outer house. More seals entered the compound and converged on the first floor of the main building. Inside they found another courier with an Assault Rifle. Those seals were in the process of shooting the second gunman . Owen right. Pelley and his wife jumped in front of him . Owen all the women on target were very hostile. Its something very different than what we see in afghanistan or iraq. You typically dont see the women that are this aggressive and. And hostile. Even though the. The females had come out of this building and talked to us, they were still very combative and aggressive, and we saw that throughout the entire compound, even all the way up on the third floor. Pelley they secured the ground floor, and then the second floor. The team continued to head up these stairs, single file. The first seal in line is called the point man. Owen, at this point, was right behind him, number two, going up to the third floor. The seals had been told to expect one of Osama Bin Ladens sons. Owen guys start making their way up the stairs, and. Its quiet. Its pitch black in the house. No. No lights. All night vision. Get to the second floor, intel had said, hey, we think that khalid, his son, lives on the second floor. Pelley this is Osama Bin Ladens son . Owen yeah. The guy in front of me, whos point man, he sees the head pop out and disappear really quick around the corner. Hes like, okay, you know, what. Who is it . What do you think . Yeah, i dont know. He literally whispers. Not. Not amped up, not yelling, not anything. He whispers, hey, khalid. Khalid. He whispers khalids name, doesnt know if its khalid or not. Khalid literally looks back around the. Around the edge of the. The hall. And he shoots him. What was khalid thinking at that time . Look around the corner. You know, curiosity killed the cat. I guess khalid, too. Pelley it had been 15 minutes since the crash. It was now about 1 15 a. M. Give me a sense of what this scene is like in there . I mean, are these guys yelling and charging up the stairs . Is there a lot of action . How is it unfolding . Owen you know, its. Its not like the movies. Movies make it out to be, you know, loud and crazy and everybodys yelling. Its. This is what we do. Were really good at it. And so its quiet and calm, like weve done it a million times before. We have a saying, you know, dont. Dont run to your death. So nice and slow, and we head up the stairs. Pelley khalid is dead on this landing. The point man is stepping past khalid. And now, youre number two in the stack. Youre right behind the point man . Owen yep. Im kind of trying to look around him, hear him take a couple shots. Kind of see a head. Somebody disappear back into the room. Pelley the point man had seen someone stick his head out a door and shot him just the way hed shot khalid. Owen yup. Pelley what did you do then . Owen inside the room, i could see a body laying on the ground. Over him was. Was two females, real close to the door. They looked up and saw the. Saw the point man. He steps into the room, literally rushes the two women, grabs one under each arm and pushes them back against the far wall. So if they did have a suicide vest on and they did blow themselves up that they wouldnt. That that wouldnt affect the rest of the guys. Pelley but it would have killed him. Owen yeah. Pelley you stepped into the room and saw the man lying on the floor . What did you do . Owen myself and the next assaulter in, we both engaged him several more times, and then rolled off and then continued clearing the room. Pelley when you say you engaged him, what do you mean . Owen fired. Pelley you shot him . Owen yeah. Pelley hes still moving . Owen a little. A little bit. But you couldnt see his arms, couldnt see his hands. So, he couldve had something. Couldve had a hand grenade or something underneath his chest. Pelley so, after Osama Bin Laden is wounded, hes still moving. You shot him twice . Owen a handful of times. Pelley a handful of times, and the seal in the stack behind you also shot Osama Bin Laden. And at that point, his body was still . Owen yes. Pelley did you recognize him . Owen nope. You know, everybody thinks it was, like, you know its him. No. To us, at that time, it could have been anybody. Maybe this was another brother. Maybe this is a bodyguard. Maybe. It doesnt matter. The point is to just continue clearing. Pelley by now, 20 minutes had passed. Every single thing the woman with the c. I. A. Had told them on the plane had been right, but time was running out. Throughout the raid, the remaining helicopter was in the air. It only had enough gas to stay for 30 minutes or so. Pakistani neighbors had discovered the seals posted outside the compound wall, and it couldnt be long before the Pakistani Military would know they were there. One seal was charged with keeping an eye on his wristwatch and calling out the dwindling time on the radio 20 minutes, 15, ten. Well be right back. Welcome to the cbs sports update presented by e. Trade. Im greg gumbel in new york. At the dayton, Jimmie Johnson wins his second dayton 500. Danica patrick finished 8th. Ohio state overcame a ninepoint secondhalf deficit to beat the spartans. Duke makes it eight of its last nine. St. Johns ncaa tournament hopes take a hit. Notre dames defense shuts down cincinnati. U. C. L. A. Beats its crosstown rival. For more news and sports information, go to cbssports. Com. Pelley as time was slipping away, mark owen and a couple of other members of Seal Team Six kneeled around a mangled body on the third floor of the house in abbottabad, pakistan. Everything the c. I. A. Analyst told them about the raid on Osama Bin Ladens house had checked out exactly as she said. But was this bin laden . Owen you know, in my mind, pelley as time was slipping away, mark owen and a couple of other members of Seal Team Six kneeled around a mangled body on the third floor of the house in abbottabad, pakistan. Everything the c. I. A. Analyst told them about the raid on Osama Bin Ladens house had checked out exactly as she said. But was this bin laden . Owen you know, in my mind, he looked way younger than i thought he was going to be. His beard wasnt gray at all. Id studied lot. Lots of photos of him, and, you know, they were always gray. His beard was. Was dark black. Identifiably, he was very tall. So, okay, you know, you can kind of chalk that up as something. Pelley bin laden was about 64. Owen right. His nose, to me, was something that i could. I could kind of identify. So, you know, kind of looking at the profile shots and everything, i was like, okay, i was. I was pretty sure that was him. But, you know, im not willing to make that call, certainly not at that point. Pelley not willing because owen says they suspected the president was listening at the white house, and he was right. The Helicopter Crash had been reported up the chain of command. Owen says the seals wanted proof before anyone said anything on the radio about killing Osama Bin Laden. They turned to one of the seals in the room who spoke arabic. Owen so he moved out to where the women and kids were, grabs one of the. The younger kids, says, hey, who. Who is that inside . She says, osama. Osama who . Osama bin laden. Pelley the child . Owen the child. Pelley identified him . Owen yep. Grabbed one of the females, again asked her, hey, who is that . She said, Osama Bin Laden. Pelley does a cheer go up among the seals . You start shaking hands . Patting each other on the back . Owen not. Nothing. Its all. All business. Were on the clock here. So, we call up the Commanding Officer. He comes upstairs, looks at the body. We give him what we have so far of hey, heres what he looks like, take a look. Hes tall. Woman and kid confirm it. He took one look, he said, okay, i think thats him. Pelley the commander used the code word for bin laden, geronimo, as he passed the message to admiral mcraven. For god and country, he said, i pass geronimo. Geronimo e. K. I. A. , which stands for enemy killed in action. 20 minutes had passed, ten minutes left on the schedule. Owen we wanted to collect d. N. A. Samples, we wanted to take photographs of him, and then we wanted duplicate copies of that. So obviously were taking the body out. But if the helicopter got shot down on the way out and it had the body, we wanted the other helicopter to have d. N. A. And photos so theyd have some sort of evidence that said, hey, we do have him and here it is. Pelley you wanted duplicates of everything . Owen yeah, just in case. Pelley you thought of everything. Owen we tried. Pelley one seal took blood and saliva samples. Owen took the pictures. Owen i figured these were the. Probably some of the most important photos id ever take in my life. So, you know, make sure i do it right, get good angles and. And all this other stuff. But, you know, youve got to clean off the face, so you. Theres. Identifiable as possible. So one of my buddies had a camelback with. With some water in it. Got some, you know. Spread some water on him, took a sheet off the bed, kind of wiped the blood off, and then took photos. Pelley wiping the blood off of Osama Bin Ladens face . Camelback is one of those backpacks that has a water bladder in it, and you use it to drink water out of. But you used it to wash his face . And you shot pictures of his face in a profile. Can you describe what they look like . Owen theyre pretty gruesome. Pelley well, when you say gruesome, what are we talking about . Owen he had a bullet wound in the head, so that gruesome. Pelley two seals took the body downstairs and zipped bin laden into a bag. In the bedroom, owen found an Assault Rifle and a pistol on a shelf. Owen and some people would argue that, you know, why did that point man take those shots . Well, immediately, the first door we went to, my team was engaged by enemy fire through the door. So, automatically, we know were going into an enemy compound, shots being fired back at us immediately. A. K. Found next to khalid on the stairs. All those boxes have been checked that if a guy sticks his head around the corner, he very easily could have a gun. You dont wait to get that a. K. Or the. The grenade thrown down the hall or the suicide vest. So in the split second, thats when he engaged. Pelley he did have a gun, but he didnt use it. And i wonder what you make of that . Owen i think, in the end, he taught a lot of people to do. You know, martyr themselves and. And. He masterminded the 9 11 attacks. But in the end, he wasnt even willing to roger up himself with a gun and. And put up a fight. So i think that speaks for itself. Pelley back on the second floor, the seals were grabbing computers, disks, flash drives, videotapes, more priceless intelligence than they could carry. Owen there was so much stuff in this house. Pelley the guys are just stuffing this stuff in garbage bags . Owen we had carried bags with us, but we filled all these bags up. So you just find some. You know, an old gym bag on target, dump out whatevers in it and. And. And use that. You know, as we were running out, i look over at my buddy. Hes got a bag of stuff in one hand, like, you know, santa claus running out of there. A bag full of goodies in one hand that he had collected and a computer terminal in the other. Pelley the plan had been to be on the ground for 30 minutes, but now they were a few minutes late. It was after 1 30 a. M. Owen now, things are starting to pick up outside. People have obviously woken up at this point. Theyre. Theyre coming over to investigate whats going on. Pelley they were the neighbors, and they had a lot of questions for the seals standing guard outside the wall. Owen so thats where things could get real dynamic for that team outside. Everybody wants to know what was going on inside. That team had way more responsibility than just about anybody else because they were dealing with all the whatifs outside. Pelley what if the Police Showed up or the military . Owen we were running out of time. Weve got to get going. Theres neighbors approaching. The interpreter that was out here said, hey, theres a Police Operation going on here, go back to your homes, and theyd simply go back away. Pelley among the Unfinished Business was the crashed helicopter. It was a secret design, loaded with secret gear. They had to blow it up. A message was passed to their explosives expert, called the e. O. D. Man. Prep it to blow, they said, but the it in the message was a little vague. Owen well, the e. O. D. Guy thinks he means prep the house to blow. So there we are in the middle of this, and hes like, okay, roger that, prep it to blow. So hes running around the first floor of the house, setting his charges, getting ready to blow up the house. And somebody looks over at him like, dude, dude, what are you doing . Hes like, ah, im prepping it to blow. Hes like, not. Not the house, the helicopter. Well, he hadnt got the word that there was a helicopter even down. Hes like, what helicopter . Hes like, the one in the courtyard. Go take a look. So he runs outside, sees the helicopter, and then. And then they proceed to. To rig it to blow. Pelley it was past time to go. Two large helicopters called ch47s, filled with reinforcements and fuel, had been standing by during the raid. The remaining blackhawk would return for half of the seals; a ch47 would pick up the rest. Owen the blackhawk thats picking us up lands first. We run through the field, carrying the body in the body bag, load the. The remaining blackhawk, and then we slowly lift off and move away. While theyre waiting for the 47 to come in, the timer on the charges is ticking down. Pelley the explosion on this helicopter is coming. How much time have they got . Owen not much left. Pelley minutes . Owen theyre under 30 seconds. Theyre running down. The team leader that was in charge of the demo team, gets a hold of the Commanding Officer, gets him on the radio talking to the 47. Tells the 47 to do a goaround. As hes doing the. The go around to the south, boom, the charge goes. Our blackhawks already gone. This explodes. Big. Big huge explosion. The 47 comes right back around, lands. The guys load on, and now theyre airborne and were done. Were clean from the target. Pelley that glow at the compound was the helicopter on fire. The seals were on the ground 38 minutes, which meant their blackhawk had been in the air, waiting a little longer than planned. Owen sure enough, im sitting in the helicopter, and i turn around and look in the cockpit. I see flashing red lights. Well, im not a pilot, but anything flashing red in. In a vehicle is typically not good. It was gas gauges. Were about to run out of fuel. Pelley during their escape, the seals were forced to land in pakistan. One of the ch47s was waiting on the ground and refueled their blackhawk. The pakistanis didnt get you on the way in, but youre concerned theyre going to get you on the way out . Owen sure. Weve got to get out of here. Pelley when did you know that you were out of pakistan . Owen they radioed over. Came on over the radio said, hey, were back. Were back in afghanistan. Pelley and you thought what . Owen big sigh of relief and, wow, we might have actually pulled this off. This is crazy. Pelley was there ever a point, mark, in which you shook hands with each other, slapped each other on the back . Owen yeah, once we landed. Everybody kind of hugged and highfived and took a couple photos. And, you know, it was our. Our fiveminute hey, cool, we pulled this off, good job. And then it was back to work. Pelley in his book, owen describes how they loaded the body onto a pickup truck and brought it to a hangar where vice admiral mcraven, head of joint special operations command, was waiting. They unzipped the bag. Standing nearby was that c. I. A. Analyst who had spent years on bin ladens trail. Miss 100 , the woman who told you that she was 100 certain that they had Osama Bin Laden . Owen right. So were all in the hangar. Immediately, we saw her, and, you know, she started crying. And it was a pretty significant event in her life, im sure. Pelley six hours later, the president announced it to the world. President barack obama tonight, i can report to the American People and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al qaeda. Owen yeah, we watched it live. It was. They had some tvs set up in the hangar that we were at. And literally still in your. In your camouflage uniform, our gear kind of set to the side, and we heard it was coming on. We went and gathered around and watched the address. Pelley what did you think . Owen now the world knows that. That weve got him. cheers and applause pelley when you landed back in the United States, what did you think of all the Media Coverage . Owen it was all surreal because, you know, this had all been so hushhush leading up to it. We went and did it, and now it was the biggest news story ever. We got on a bus. They drove us back to work. I didnt even go in. They told us we had a couple days off. And i grabbed my keys, went and got in my truck, and. You know, i put it in the book. But, you know, i hit taco bell on the way home, hit the drive through, a couple tacos. And. You know, ate it in my car right there and then. And then drove home. Pelley you were part of the team that killed Osama Bin Laden, and the first thing you do when you get back to the United States is go to taco bell . Owen two tacos and a bean burrito. Its routine. Pelley life has been anything but routine for mark owen since the publication of his book was first announced. Well have that when we come back. Go to 60minutesovertime. Com to hear more about mark owen and what he saw inside bin ladens room. Sponsored by pfizer. [ phil ] when you have joint pain and stiffness. Accomplishing even Little Things can become major victories. Im phil mickelson, pro golfer. When i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. Serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. 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These are troubling times in the kingdom. More discounts than we knoweth what to do with. Now thats progressive. Pelley days after returning from the raid in abbotabad, pakistan, mark owens squadron boarded an ancient c130 transport plane for one more mission. The men wondered why the plane was so old. And then they found out the plane had been used in 1980 in the failed attempt to rescue the american hostages in iran. Somebody thought it was a fitting piece of American History to carry the men to their secret meeting with the president of the United States. Obama the terrorist leader who struck our nation on 9 11 will never threaten america again. Pelley president obama was making a speech at fort campbell, kentucky, and he met with the bin laden team privately. All of the men would receive a silver star for valor. Did the president ask you guys which ones of you had shot Osama Bin Laden . Owen yeah. He asked. He asked who. Who was the one, and. And we told him we wouldnt tell. Pelley you wouldnt tell him . Why not . Owen pulling a triggers easy, you know, a couple pounds of pressure on your trigger finger. And ive done it millions of times, and. And its not that hard, you know. So its not about who that one person was. Its about the team, or. The helicopter pilots, or the. The intel folks that teed this whole thing up. Who cares who the one person is . Doesnt matter. Pelley i wonder, in writing this book, whether youre worried that some of your fellow seals will be angry with you . Owen ive had nothing but an outpouring of support from the guys who know me. To quote one of my friends, he said, hey, if anybody can tell this story and do it right, its you. And im not taking that and trying to toot my own horn. They know im doing it right. Pelley you say in the preface to the book that, if a reader is looking for secrets, this isnt their book. Owen absolutely not. Im not talking secrets, im not talking tactics. I dont even get into any of that stuff. But i really try and give the reader a sense of. Of what its like to be. To be there. Pelley the pentagon is not happy about no easy day. They have a different account of bin ladens final minutes, saying that he was first shot when the seals were inside his bedroom. Spokesman George Little said that owen signed a secrecy agreement as a seal and shouldve submitted his book for editing by the government. George little the author is in material breach of his secrecy agreements with the United States government. We believe that sensitive and classified information is contained in the book. I dont think i could be any clearer than that. Pelley owen insists that theres nothing in the book that compromises the secrets of the United States or the safety of the seals. But the government is considering a lawsuit to seize the profits from the book. The bin laden raid was mark owens last. A few months later, he went to new york and saw ground zero for the very first time. Owen our team played a small, little piece. Some people would argue bigger. But, you know, to us, its very. We were just doing our jobs. Not a big deal. We were just lucky to be at the right place at the right time. But then, going to new york and. And where the World Trade Center stood at one point. And it was. Its just very, very emotional. Pelley nearly 3,000 people were killed right there alone. Owen it was emotional. It was like, you know what . Im just ready to move on, full circle. Pelley your team had avenged those deaths. Owen absolutely. Pelley when word of the book, no easy day, came out last august, a cable news channel learned mark owens real name and reported it. Since then, others have reported his name. But we will not. Owen wants to donate most of the profits from the book to charities that support families of fallen troops, but that will depend on the outcome of any legal action by the government. 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