Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Warns Of Biggest Danger Country Faces This 9/11
As the United States commemorates the twentieth memorial of the September 11th attacks, the former Navy SEAL credited with assassinating Usama bin Laden warns of the biggest danger the country faces today.
The former member of the elite SEAL Team Six, Robert O’Neill, said in an interview with Fox News that despite increasing worries about a revival of radical Islamic terrorism, the United States faces more threats closer to home than it has in recent years.
“My biggest concern is the division in this country,” O’Neill said. “Most people are good to each other. But the anger and the division gets the ratings, and that’s what people hear. A lot of people know if they keep people divided they can stay in power and it’s wrong.”
“We can disagree with each other but we’re on the same team when it all comes down to it,” he added.
He said that September 11th should serve as a memorial for not just those who died in the attacks and the years that followed – during which the United States was involved in the longest war in American history – but also as a reminder of shared American ideals.
“There were people running out of the towers to live, and there were policemen and firemen running up to die. And we have those people there and it’s very, very important to realize that,” He was referring to the widespread criticism local police have gotten throughout the country due to the radical Black Lives Matter movement.
According to O’Neill, “Those are the good guys and they’re out there,” O’Neill added. “When the demons come, someone’s going to be there to defend you and America should realize that.”
O’Neill, who served as a SEAL on more than a dozen missions, recalled being in Kosovo for a peacekeeping operation with SEAL Team Two during the September 11th attacks on the United States.
It was the closest he and his colleagues had ever been to battle since there was no imminent threat of conflict, according to him.
With the television turned on and emails being sent, O’Neill characterized himself as being in a “operation center.” After then, a breaking news piece took over the show that was currently playing and drew the audience’s attention.
“We were looking at it, at the North Tower and guys were saying, ‘You know, a small plane? That’s a huge building, that’s a really big hole and that’s a clear day. This is weird.’ And we were all talking about it with some other SEALS and some intelligence people. And then the second plane hit the south tower and that’s when we all knew immediately – this is an attack.
Not until 2005, when he was sent to Afghanistan as part of a SEAL unit to rescue Marcus Luttrell, an operation codenamed Operation Red Wings and depicted in the film “Lone Survivor,” did O’Neill see action in Afghanistan.
One of the former SEAL’s main worries is how fast the United States seems to have forgotten what it means to be engaged in the fight against Islamic terrorism.
“People do need to realize that, you know, as opposed to yelling at each other on social media – there’s an enemy out there that wants to kill all of us. And it doesn’t matter, really doesn’t matter, what you look like – it’s your ideology,” he said. “You don’t believe what they think you should believe and they’re going to kill you.”
“One of their sayings is, ‘The Americans have the clock, but we have the time,'” he added, warning against the threat of a future attack. “They’re going to adapt.”
On the eve of the 20th Memorial of the deadliest attack on U.S. soil since the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, O’Neill encouraged Americans to find common ground and to remain together in their shared American ideals, as the country commemorated the tragedy.
In a reference to a U.S. Marine Medal of Honor winner, “one of my friends Dakota Meyer always says, ‘I don’t want another 9/11, but I’ll take another 9/12 because it united all of us,'” the former SEAL said. “And not just Americans, but our way of life, because I think it was 84 countries lost people in the twin towers.”
