The 38-year-old has been unmasked as the man who shot the 9/11 terror chief in 2011
The Navy SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden dead was unmasked for the first time last night.
Rob O’Neill, 38, undertook more than 400 combat missions and was decorated 52 times in a 16-year career as a member of SEAL Team Six.
His father Tom O’Neill said: “People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public. I say I’ll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us.”
O’Neill was personally congratulated by President Obama for killing bin Laden at close range with three shots to his forehead during the raid on a compound Abbottabad, in Pakistan, on 2 May 2011.
In total he was deployed on more than a dozen tours of duty in active combat, in four different warzones, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
He is one of the most distinguished members ever of the elite force – but now faces being frozen out for speaking publicly of his missions.
O’Neill has agreed to an exclusive two-part Fox interview later this month.
His career included three missions that have been turned into Hollywood action movies.
He was the lead jumper on the Maersk Alabama, the ship taken over by Somali pirates, whose rescue turned into the Oscar-winning movie Captain Phillips.
He helped save SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the one man who lived to tell of a failed mission to capture a Taliban leader in Afghanistan, which made the big screen as ‘Lone Survivor.’
‘He is still friendly with Marcus, they had dinner together just the other day,’ said his father.
And he was the man who killed Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
His decorations include two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with Valor, a Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor, three Presidential Unit citations, and two Navy/Marine Corps Commendations with Valor.
It will also touch upon what was taking place inside the terrorist compound while President Obama and his cabinet watched from the White House.
Offering never before shared details, the presentation will include O’Neill’s experience in confronting Bin Laden, his description of the terrorist leader’s final moments.
Additionally, viewers will be offered a behind-the-scenes look on at the secret ceremony where he donated the shirt he was wearing during the mission to the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York City.
