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The raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been detailed in a new book, No Easy Day, written by a former Navy SEAL who was on the mission to take out the world’s number one terrorist. But now details of said mission are contradicting accounts by administration officials, rethinking whether or not Bin Laden presented a clear threat when SEALs killed him.

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According to Matt Bissonnette, the author of No Easy Day, Bin Laden apparently was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs rushed up a narrow stairwell in his direction. Bissonnette says Bin Laden was also unarmed.

As reported by the Associated Press:

Bissonnette says he was directly behind a “point man” going up the stairs in the pitch black hallway. “Less than five steps” from top of the stairs, he heard “suppressed” gunfire: “BOP. BOP.” The point man had seen a “man peeking out of the door” on the right side of the hallway.

The author writes that bin Laden ducked back into his bedroom and the SEALs followed, only to find the terrorist crumpled on the floor in a pool of blood with a hole visible on the right side of his head and two women wailing over his body.

Bissonnette says the point man pulled the two women out of the way and shoved them into a corner and he and the other SEALs trained their guns’ laser sites on bin Laden’s still-twitching body, shooting him several times until he lay motionless. The SEALs later found two weapons stored by the doorway, untouched, the author said.

In the account related by administration officials after the raid in Pakistan, the SEALs shot bin Laden only after he ducked back into the bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.

Fox News outed Bissonnette last week as the real author of No Easy Day, prompting al-Qaeda leaders to call for his death.

SOURCE: AP