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With mr. owens family. john mcchoir, former navy seal who you just heard from and the former new york times reporter, best-selling author. the latest book the prisoner just hit bookshelves this week, yesterday in, fact. let me just start with you, alex. the raid was a success. of course, he is getting a lot of criticism for using that word because an american lost their lives and civilians that lost their lives as well. is the criticism warranted? i don t think we know what they got. it seems tactically they ran into serious problems they were not expecting. and one thing we were talking about is why they went in with ospreys which are loud and, you know, the special forces have silence blackhawks. i don t know fit was a tactical decision because of distance. you know, they re it in the middle of the desert. and the approach would have been heard using the much louder aircraft. general marks? yeah, i was going to sashgs ....
Wrote the book no easy day. he was one of the three s.e.a.l.s on that third floor with bin laden. here s what he told cbs s 60 mists. as bin laden is wounded, he s still moving, you shot him twice? three or four times. a handful of times. and the s.e.a.l. in the stack behind you also shot osama bin laden, and at that point his body was still? yes. why should we believe the s.e.a.l. who spoke to you and bisonnette and the s.e.a.l. who was right there? i did a little bit of digging around with the team members, and they said on balance, they found bisonnette a more credible person. reporter: john mcchoir served as ten years as a s.e.a.l. and says this. it s possible someone is not sure who got the target. i do think that the guy who did make the shot, you ll never know, because he s going to take ....
Back on american soil, but he would never know it and that is by design. cnn s brian todd explains. reporter: in a town where the buzzing of fighter jets is constant, where joyful reunions are a staple, america s most fearsome fighting unit goes unnoticed. unofficially called s.e.a.l. team six, they re the navy commandos believed to have killed osama bin laden. s.e.a.l. training takes years. at least 75% of those who try out wash out. despite their ee lite lead status, many of s.e.a.l. team six s neighbors here in virginia beach wouldn t know one of those warriors if they fell over him. when the s.e.a.l.s come into a place like this, are they noticeable? personally, for me, i don t think they re noticeable beyond any other person in the military. john mcchoir, a s.e.a.l. for ten years was once stationed in virginia beach. ....
Fearsome fighting unit goes unnoticed. unofficially called s.e.a.l. team six, they re the team widely believed to have killed osama bin laden. s.e.a.l. training takes years. at least 75% of those who try out wash out. despite their ee lite lead status, many of s.e.a.l. team six s neighbors here in virginia beach wouldn t know one of those warriors if they fell over him. when the s.e.a.l.s come into a place like this, are they noticeable? personally, for me, i don t think they re noticeable beyond any other person in the military. john mcchoir, a s.e.a.l. for ten years was once stationed in virginia beach. aim in a bar with a bunch of s.e.a.l.s, will i know it? hopefully you won t. we re just americans. you can t really put us in a box or a category. we re tall, short, large, not so large. we try to blend in and be ....