The retired US Navy SEAL, who claims to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden almost single-handedly during the Abbottabad operation, said that he shot the al-Qaeda leader a third time in the head for good luck.
Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill told rapt 9/11 family members during a top-secret gathering at the 9/11 Museum in lower Manhattan in July that while he had been taught to fire two head shots-called the double-tap, he thought there was "no harm in putting one more bullet in him, "New York Post reported.
Neill revealed during the top-secret gathering that the SEAL team was given few advance details of the May 2011 operation "Neptune Spear".
He said that the team wasn't aware of what the mission was and it was later that they realized that their Target was the al-Qaeda leader.
