I find some inconsistencies or ambiguities in the article:
". . . when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP,"
". . . he was unarmed, writes Owen."
It is very hard to shoot yourself twice. It might be hard to shoot yourself and be "unarmed" depending on how you define "unarmed." Did the weapon fly from his hand after shooting himself, thus rendering him unarmed? If so, where is it? Or was he truly unarmed, meaning someone else (not a SEAL) shot him? These inconsistencies lead me to believe someone else shot him. His wife, the young girl or . . . ?
However:
"He hadn’t even prepared a defense. He had no intention of fighting. He asked his followers for decades to wear suicide vests or fly planes into buildings, but didn’t even pick up his weapon. In all of my deployments, we routinely saw this phenomenon. The higher up the food chain the targeted individual was, the bigger a pussy he was.”
This is stupid. First, UBL may not have anticipated the need to prepare a defense or engage in a fight. How long had he lived peacefully in PStan? Second, if the SEALs executed their mission properly, which apprently they did, then there would be no oportunity to fight; surprise, violence of action, volume of fire, all that shit. See below.
So, if the SEALs did not shoot him, and he did not shoot himself, and if he was unarmed, and if a search of the room disclosed only two unloaded weapons, and no defense was prepared, then WTF?
"And it wasn't true that bin Laden had "time to look into our eyes."
Yeah, so how is he going to mount a defense or fight?
As to the harsh words for the POTUS, if I were the POTUS I'd say, okay, next time SEALs won't get the call. I'll try dialing up someone who can keep their fucking mouths shut, keep their politics to themselves, honor their NDAs and keep their personality conflicts in the school yard. Oh, no such thing due to human nature? Well then, maybe we'll just send in a cruise missle next time.
I wonder if Mr. "Owen" is going to give us all some insight into the in-house problems he had, or is he all of a sudden so "professional" that he won't air team dirty laundry? LOL!
