Doocy Interview’s Navy SEAL Who Killed Usama Bin Laden

The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Usama bin Laden talked to Fox News’ Peter Doocy in an exclusive interview, detailing his life and the event. He said that members of the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, the elite team who took out the most wanted terrorist, believed that it was “going to be a one-way mission,” but it would be “worth it to kill him.”

In part one of “The Man Who Killed Usama bin Laden,” Rob O’Neill described growing up in Butte, Montana, and how he became the highly-trained Navy SEAL who shot the most wanted terrorist in the world at bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in 2011.

O’Neill, who tried out for Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 after SEAL Team 2 wasn’t seeing the action he wanted, was also part of the mission to rescue of the crew of the Maersk Alabama from Somali pirates, which was depicted in the movie “Captain Phillips.”

He told Peter Doocy how he discovered he was embarking on the mission to kill bin Laden.

“They told us a couple of things like we’re going to read you in eventually and here’s whose going to be there…and they said a few names that didn’t make sense,” O’Neill said. “A few of us were talking a couple days later about this person, this person why would they be there… It’s bin Laden…they found him…we’re going to go get him.”

O’Neill said he and the other SEALs did not think they would survive the mission.

“The more we trained on it, the more we realized…this is going to be a one-way mission,” he said. “We’re going to go and we’re not going to come back. We’re going to die when the house blows up. We’re going to die when he blows up. Or we are going to be there too long and we’ll get arrested by the Pakistanis and we’re going to spend the rest of our short lives in Pakistan prison.”

O’Neill pushed to become a part of the group that landed on the roof of the compound, rather than leading the element of the team that provided cover outside of the compound’s western wall. The CIA officer told him that if he wanted to get a shot at bin Laden, “he’s on the third floor.”

He said that the soldiers felt that the mission would be worth sacrificing their own lives, saying “we are going to die eventually, this is a good way to go and it’s worth it to kill him. He’s going to die with us.”

“To be part of something so historic, you can’t ask for more…we wanted it bad,” he said. “It’s it. It doesn’t get any better. This is it this is why we’re here. We are at war because of this guy and now we are going to go get him.”

O’Neill said he believes he was “definitely” the last person bin Laden saw before he died, and he has thought about the mission every day in the years since it happened.

“I’m still trying to figure out if it’s the best thing I’ve ever done or the worst thing I’ve ever done,” he said.