Im peter doocy. By 2010, the cia was focused on a compound in pakistan where it was believed Osama Bin Laden was living. After much deliberation, president obama made the call to send in a hand picked group of men from the Naval SpecialWarfare Development group, s. E. A. L. Team 6. They spent two weeks training on mockups of the compound here the helicopters we have it down to a science. We have folding camping chairs, tripods so we could maximize space. Some guys sitting on them, some below them. I had a dog right next to me. Pretty loud inside so nobodys really talking to each other. We dont need to talk. Kind of looking around, seeing how people are reacting. Were hearing from the pilots every now and then. Very comforting because the army picked the very pilots in the world to fly this mission. 15 minutes later two Chinook Helicopters take off loaded with another sfaudquadron of s. E. A. L. S. Rescue force in case anything goes wrong. Now we know were inside. At this point you could feel okay, now were in a sovereign nation. We dont know if they can see us or not. And if they do they can just shoot us down and we cant even be mad because theyre defending their nation. So everyone is kind of handling this in their own way. Its a weird feeling to realize they can take a missile right now and blow up at any time. Just wondering whats it feel like to get shot out of the sky. Do you die right away or after you fall . What happens . Im facing a little bit forward with the pilot in front of me. Im kind of looking around. Guys were doing weird stuff. Some guys fell asleep. I saw a guy put his ipod in. To listen to music. Other guys were doing stuff. Wed hear every now and then from the pilot, all right 15 minutes in we havent been painted, meaning no one sees us. Were flying low. What i was doing in between hearing this was counting. I learned as a sniper on recon Surveillance Missions it gets very boring for 72 hours watching something. So i would learn to count to keep my mind occupied. Im counting from 0 to 1,000 then 1,000 to 0. Speeding it up and slowing it down to keep my mind working. Then wed hear another 30 minutes havent been painted, which is refreshing to hear how cool and calm and just awesome those pilots are. I feel better, and i keep counting. Then its 45 minutes. Now the other part of the team had just crossed the border, which is the guys in the bigger helicopters with more guys they were behind us now. So now were worried about them. Like bigger target what if they get hit . When they arrive over abadabad the plan was for the two helicopters to sit down in a rendezvous point. Mark bowden is the bestselling author of the finish, the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The two blackhawks had planned to move over the compound. 80 minutes into the 90minute flight we bank to the south. And im counting still. It sounds made up. It sound cheesy. But as im counting for some reason i remembered a quote from george w. Bush on 9 11, freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. And freedom will be defended. And i kind of got goose bumps. First off, how in the world did i just remember that . Then i thought, forget counting. I started saying that over and over. Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a face les coward. Freedom will be defended it kind of hit me then. After weeks of training, 82 minutes into the flight im like im on this mission and were going to kill him. Two minutes out the doors open. And not a training site in the mountains in the United States. And its not a desert. Its lights of the city. One minute out and i remember thinking, man, this is some serious navy s. E. A. L. Stuff were about to do. So we were in the second helicopter. And the plan was the first helicopter was going to go in front. One of the helicopters was going to land inside the compound itself. The other was going to set down outside the walls of the compound briefly, let off a couple of men and a dog that were going to patrol the perimeter and keep people away. And then it was supposed to move back up and hover over the highest point of the building they were assaulting and the s. E. A. L. S were going to rope down onto the roof. When the first blackhawk began to move in to try to land in thed stay in the air and it crashed. And we heard something along the lines of dash one going around. Were thinking the first helicopter got shot at which we expected. So theyre going to do a race track and come back in and reattack. In the practice run they had landed and taken off successfully. But the wall around that mockup was a steel fence. In abadibad the wall was stone. So there was a buildup of feet underneath the falling helicopter which created conditions which made it unable to stay in the air. It was really only due to the extraordinary skill of the nicethe night stalker helicopter pilot who realized what was happening and acted quickly enough to put the helicopter down, effectively to crash it in a controlled way, so that it didnt flip over on its side, it didnt become a catastrophic crash. The pilot saved everyones lives. He put the tail on the fence and put the nose in the dirt. Saved everyones lives. So we landed and we let the snipers out, nobody picked up and go right back down to the ground. That wasnt part of the plan. We were talking to our pilot that based on his actions he was telling us youre getting out here. We didnt know the helicopter crashed, the other one. But he did. He saw it crash. He just thought being the genius he is they couldnt hover i might not be able to hover get out. Well start from here. If you cant stand the heat, get off the test track. Get the mercedesbenz youve been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedesbenz dealer. Hurry, before this opportunity cools off. Share your summer moments in your mercedesbenz with us. 7,000 miles away from abbottabad, pakistan in washington, d. C. Owe government officials are watching the raid on bin ladens compound and its clear something had gone very wrong. It was captured by a white house photographer. I saw the snapshot a very good snapshot of history. The concern on secretary of state clintons face, the concern on president obamas face. We were only really able to see from high above what had happened. For a few minutes they werent sure exactly whether the whole mission had been blown. So the point where the helicopters move in the same all they see initially is that one chopper has crashed and the other has landed in a spot where it wasnt supposed to go. There had been the feelings of real dismay. Bob gates the defense secretary had been in the white house back in 1980 when jimmy cart ters rescue mission to tehran had gone awry in the desert. So i have no doubt that images of that tragic moment flashed through his head. Theyre powerless at that point. Theyve sent these men to perform this mission. Theyve instructed them to fight their way out of the country if necessary. Everyone in the situation was reassured but also surprised at how calmly colonel mcgrave dealt with the setback. Because to him it was the kind of thing that just happens. You expect the things are not going to go exactly as planned. All these men were handpicked precisely because theyre very good at making something good happen when something has gone bad. The men on the second helicopter that set down on the outside began screaming out and assaulted the compound. So basically the assault just proceeded but from different avenues. I remember putting my right foot down and saying sort of out loud and freedom will be defended. Then im looking at Osama Bin Ladens house and im thinking this is so cool. So the guys outside the compound had to blow open a gate in order to end ert compound. Those who were in the chopper that had crash landed inside the compound began moving towards the target they had planned to hit. Theres a door on the corner of the wall. We went up to that, one opt breaches put a big bomb on it to blast it and it opened sort of like a tin can. And theres a brick wall behind it. The breacher said fail breach. This is bad. And i remember thinking this is good. Thats a fake door. Someone is important in this house. We still didnt know that the helicopter had crashed. So we think theyre flying around. Were going to blast the main car port. Letting them know because theyre going to be fast hovering in. We dont want them hit. They said well just open it for you. Were like whats that mean . A door comes open a thumbs up. The door just opened and our guys are obviously in there. We followed them in. As were there theres a guy next to me on the first helicopter. Hes whispering something. He said that helicopter crashed. And when he said that to me i was thinking one of the helicopters behind us was probably shot down. So we just lost a bunch of our guys oh, man which one . He goes dude our helicopter crashed in the front yard. I was probably just too confused looking at the house as opposed to my ride looking at the helicopter just crashed. The team assaulting from the outside entered the compound. They were fired upon. A brief volley from an automatic weapon poorly aimed. So i believe one of the s. E. A. L. S was slightly injured from some glass broken cut his cheek there. Were no serious injuries. Fights going on between the main house and the guest house. I wasnt involved with that at all. We turn the corner. I remember looking up again at the house like weve seen pictures of nothing that big. This is awesome. There was a couple gunshots going back and forth through the window. Of course once theres fire, thats when the s. E. A. L. Team to the enemy and these guys dont miss. They shot still the person who opened fire on them. And inadvertently wounded his wife who was there with them. Then they just proceeded into the first floor of the building along with the team thats approaching from the inside of the compound. One of the guys that just did the shooting, he said i just shot one of the women. She just jumped in front of him. Am i in trouble. I remember thinking okay first of all we dont need to be thinking are you in trouble. Stop thinking about that. Second of all no, theyre mar tirg themselves in front of the men. Another good sign. Its not good that were shooting and a woman was shot but its good that thats happening because that means important men are here. Coming up next on the man who killed Osama Bin Laden. The moment arrives when bob and s. E. A. L. Team six come facetoface with the most with operation neptune sphere under way in abottomabad, pakistan, they storm the Main Building of the compound. They cleared a room on the first floor killing the courier, and his wife who were found in the first floor of the Main Building. His wife jumped on top. She was killed. We separated into different rooms and were looking down a hallway. It was weird to be in there. Were kind of back in the rooms. We dont want to stand in the hallway. Thats where the enemy could shoot. They began methodically to go room by room the first floor. They work in teams. As they enter the floor they begin looking for rooms where potentially there are beds. They peel off and clear room by room by room. This is happening very rapidly. I remember there was a girl in our room, a little girl crying. I had a guy i was sort of holding down i had a guy taking my spot grabbed her and walked her across the hallway to find a woman to give the girl to. Because even in the heat of something that important that moment, were the good guys. And we dont want her to be any more afraid than she needs to be because she has nothing to do with it. So people were like going around seeing kids huddled with parents. The hallways barricaded to a door. Obvious that door goes up the stair. Steel door lock starting a staircase that goes up to the second floor. They blew that door and began making their way up to narrow staircase to the second story. Following this door, finally opened and we started going up the stairs. I was way in the back. So im kind of just walking up the stairs. Im watching. What the analyst said was that youre probably going to run into khalid bin lauden on the stairs. If you do thats the last line of defense. The guy in front was sort of separated by a bannister between him and khalid. She whispered his name. He whispered come here. And that confused khalid because there wasnt a lot of yelling and screaming and go go go. He kind of turned over peeked his head over what . Armed shoot so we shot him. That was just because of the spot on intelligence by the cia. Telling us whether this person will be here. Wekeep going up the stairs. Once we got to the second floor all the guys except the first guy separated. There were women and children on that floor. So as the men got up to the landing on the second floor they would have sealed off down hallways, peered room by room. Then of course theres a staircase leading up to the third floor. I was about seven guys back and clearing all the rooms. The first guys looking up the stairs. Hed taken a shot up the stairs already before i got there. But five or six guys in front of me stood off to the left or right to clear the room. I stayed the number two man. I was the last guy in the train. I knew he needed two men. Sow stayed i stayed with him. I wanted to make sure there were enough guys to go up the stairs. I wanted four guys to go up the stairs. He started talking a little bit saying something on the lane of suicide vests and theyre doing stuff and we need to get up there. And the more he didnt get excited but the more he made it known that its time to go if he hadnt take an shot up the stairs. This whole operation inside the house lasted about 15 minutes. So those bin laden and his wives on the third floor would have had plenty of time to know that the house was under assault to. Hear the gunfire, hear the explosions blowing off the door to the second floor, to hear the shots that killed his son, the wailing, i presume the crying of women and children. So you could understand that s. E. A. L. S were now on the second floor. Feel a sense of urgency about getting up the third before somebody starts shooting down at them. So how is it that you ended up the number two man on the stairs to the third floor . Just luck. Just the way that it worked. The guys ahead of me, based on our tactics we know the guy in front stays in front and everyone behind him when theres other stuff going on they need to get to that threat and take care of the threat which would be other people other rooms other doors. More important we need to clear that level before we go up. And part of me was we just need to get it done now. And honestly part of it was this room is the one thats going to blow up, lets get it over with. So i squeezed him and the two of us went into the room. We havent seen the big guy left. So hes left and if hes here hes in there. The first s. E. A. L. Up the steps, inspired the initial shot and tackled two women right inside the doorway or in the hallway for fear that they may be wearing explosive vests or something but basically to get them out of the way. There was a curtain. He went through the curtain. Most of the women were right there, the daughters and one of the wives. She sort of grabbed him and tackled him walking down the hallway and laid on top of them assuming they were going to blow up. So he gave his life so the guy behind him he didnt know who it was could get a shot because he knew bin laden was in there. So he did that. I had my hand kind of pushed him down the hallway and i turned to it right. And standing on two feet in front of me with his hands on his wifes shoulders behind her was the face that id seen thousands of times. Very quickly that i recognized him and just pop pop pop. Where did you shoot bin laden bin laden . In the face three times. Did he stagger at all . He just fell by the left side of the bed. How long from the second you saw him until he was laying dead at your feet . It was less than a second. Probably half a second. Just walked in, saw him shot him. He was a threat. He had to be wearing a suicide vest. Thats a threat. Within my rules of engagement, hes not surrendering. How much time was there between that . I would guess again the two shots are just quick tap tap and third shot however long it takes for a person to fall on the floor. So i was standing above him when he took his last breath and i heard it odd inly. Did Osama Bin Laden say anything . No. Did you say anything to him . No. No. We met for a second, thats it. Coming up next on the man who killed Osama Bin Laden. Now were there. People know something happened. And now were trying to get back. I hear them say Osama Bin Laden and then i look at bin laden bin laden. And i literally w congratulations. Youre down with crestor. Yes when diet and exercise arent enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55 . 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After they killed bin laden they wanted to get a picture of him, assessment of who it is theyve just killed. They immediately saw thought was bin laden. They want to herd the women and Children Together and get them out of the house to get them out of the way. One of the s. E. A. L. S there that spoke arabic was talking to one of the daughters. She finally admitted thats sheik osama. And then the call was made to our boss outside and then he made a call to admiral mcraven what he said for god and country, Geronimo Geronimo geronimo. Geronimo was a pro worldd we would use saying we got him so we dont have to say we got bin laden over the radio. They started gathering every piece of potential evidence they could find from laptops to computers, to paper files, discs, hard drives, anything that could have valuable information. So very hastily theyre moving room to room putting all into plastic bags everything that they