By The Huffington Post News Editors
A third member of SEAL Team 6 has come forward with new details of Osama bin Laden’s death, calling into question previous, highly-publicized accounts of the raid on the al Qaeda leader’s compound in Pakistan.
In the video above, CNN reports that this new retelling of events is more in line with that of Matt Bissonette, the SEAL who wrote “No Easy Day” under the pseudonym “Mark Owen,” published in October 2012. Those accounts are at odds with the story told in February’s issue of Esquire, which Bergen says paints a more “heroic” picture of what actually occurred in Abbottabad.
The main point of contention seems to be whether bin Laden was shot while reaching for his gun, an assertion made by the SEAL member known only as “The Shooter” in Esquire’s piece. Bergen’s source tells him that this account is “complete B-S,” insisting that bin Laden did not have a firearm within immediate reach.
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