A supporter of Islamic State militants has issued a threat against Rob O’Neill, the former US Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, and also posted the ex-commando’s purported home address in Montana on-line.
Undersheriff George Skuletich of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department said on Tuesday O’Neill no longer lives in the Butte area but that his agency was aware of the posting and contacted federal authorities.
O’Neill, 39, who grew up in Butte, told The Washington Post last year that he was the Navy SEAL who fired the fatal gunshot that struck bin Laden in the forehead during the US raid in May 2011 on the al Qaeda leader’s compound in Pakistan.
Fox News Channel, which hired O’Neill as a network contributor earlier this year, has profiled him in a television documentary titled: The Man Who Killed Usama bin Laden.
The killing of the leader behind the devastating September 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was considered a major national security victory for President Barack Obama and the US military.