‘I don’t care if you believe me’

A former US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill has revealed himself as the man who killed Osama bin Laden.

THE former Navy SEAL who claims he shot Osama bin Laden says he doesn't care if people think he's lying.

"The most important thing that I've learned in the last two years is to me it doesn't matter anymore if I am 'The Shooter.' The team got him," Robert O'Neill said in an interview aired on CNN.

"Regardless of the negativity that comes with it, I don't give a f***. We got him."

The former commando said the killing would go down in history. "But I don't care if I'm 'The Shooter,' and there are people who think I'm not. So whatever."

He also said members of the SEAL Tem Six sent to kill bin Laden believed they would not return home alive.

"Well, you have to go pump yourself up to go die. So we would talk about this," O'Neill said.

" ...(It was a) group of guys who knew time on Earth was up, so you could be honest with each other. And we all accepted and nobody was afraid. It was really cool."

'Shooter' ... US Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill claims to be the man who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden. Picture: AFP/Montana Standard Source: AFP

Jihadists have reportedly issued a death threat against O'Niel revealed himself as the shooter in an interview with the Washington Post on Thursday,

He said he decided to come forward ahead of planned media appearances next week when his identity was disclosed by SOFREP, a website operated by former SEALs.

SOFREP's revelation was in protest at O'Neill's decision to reveal his role in the raid on bin Laden's hide-out in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad.

The highly decorated Montana native told the Post he was near the head of the column of US soldiers, adding that at least two other SEALs fired shots.

The newspaper said two SEAL team members had corroborated his identity.

In postings on Twitter and the al-Minbar Jihadi Media forum, pictures of O'Neill had been distributed and messages in Arabic and English urging revenge, said a group which monitors jihadist websites.

Historic mission ... the fatigue shirt worn by Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill during the mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Picture: AP/National September 11 Memorial and Museum Source: AP

"One jihadist wrote in Arabic, for example, 'We will send the picture to the lone wolves in America, this Robert O'Neill, who killed Sheikh Usama bin Laden ...'," SITE said.

Another posted in both languages said, "To our loved ones among the Muslims in the United States of America, this is your chance for Paradise, the width of which is the heavens and the earth," SITE added.

O'Neill is set to appear in a documentary on the Fox network next week.

At bin Laden's compound, O'Neill was located in the number two position for the attack.

Bin Laden briefly appeared at the door but the SEAL in front of O'Neill apparently missed his shot.

"I rolled past him into the room, just inside the doorway," O'Neill said.

"There was bin Laden, standing there. He had his hands on a woman's shoulders, pushing her ahead." O'Neill said he could clearly identify bin Laden through his night-vision scope, despite the darkness — and fired.

Assassinated ... Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistam in May, 2011. Picture: AP Source: AP

The one-time SEAL said it was clear bin Laden was dead as his skull was split.

O'Neill is the second member of the elite unit involved in the bin Laden raid to go public, in a move which has dismayed military brass and serving SEALS who maintain a fierce, Omerta-like code of silence.

Matt Bissonnette published his account No Easy Day in 2012 under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

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