The former Navy SEAL who claims he shot Osama Bin Laden in 2011 has joined the growing list of people banned from commercial airlines for not complying with the requirement to wear masks.
that he fired three lethal shots that struck bin Laden's head within a second of seeing the al-Qaeda leader on the upper floor of his Pakistan hideout in 2011.
He was not the only member of the assault team to go public about the raid on bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad, which came a little over 10 years after terrorists funded by bin Laden commandeered commercial aircraft and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
A fellow SEAL, Matt Bissonnette published a memoir,"No Easy Day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, in 2012. Bissonnette didn't submit his book for review prior to publication. U.S. special operations leaders were critical of O'Neill for making public comments about the raid, calling them an unseemly quest for attention that is damaging to the special forces program.
"There is an expectation inside that community, a code, that they ascribe to that they will not seek recognition for what they do, they will not seek financial gain from what they do," said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary at the time.
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