Valuetainment - September 11, 2025


“59 Photos Of Bin Laden’s Body” - SEAL Team Six Member BLASTS Secrecy Over Osama Bin Laden's Body


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3 minutes

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Word count

936

Sentence count

72

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Misogyny

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Former Navy SEAL Robert J. O'Neill talks about why the government won't release the photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after his death in Afghanistan in 2011. He also talks about the possibility that some of the photos were taken by other members of the elite SEALs.

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00:00:00.000 The story about when, I don't know who it was that came out and said,
00:00:03.360 hey, they went to the government, they said,
00:00:05.580 we'd like you to release the 59 pictures you took of Osama bin Laden
00:00:08.800 and the one video, and then they came back and what did they say?
00:00:11.980 There's two reasons why we don't want to release them.
00:00:14.400 One of them is what it's going to do to increase the temperature
00:00:21.440 because those pictures are going to be used to create hate and anger against them. 0.68
00:00:25.820 There was another reason why they didn't want to release it.
00:00:27.520 Did you agree with them when they didn't want to release the pictures and the video?
00:00:31.160 No, I think they should release them just for the argument of we didn't kill them
00:00:35.780 or we killed a body double.
00:00:37.780 And now, I mean, even if we showed people, well, that's AI generated, so it's fake.
00:00:41.360 People who don't believe, they don't want to believe.
00:00:43.140 And then, I mean, it is true that it's violent.
00:00:46.140 It's not like a video game and his face was destroyed,
00:00:48.760 literally holding it together to get a picture.
00:00:51.040 So we do have the ones taken from his bedroom
00:00:54.240 and then we have the professional ones taken after at Bagram Airfield.
00:00:57.520 And I don't know why they haven't released them.
00:00:59.300 I don't know why they've been – like, I said you should hang them from the Brooklyn Bridge
00:01:02.380 and let the vultures take care of them. 1.00
00:01:04.060 That's the solution.
00:01:05.260 Everybody can look, but they don't want to.
00:01:06.480 They didn't want to.
00:01:06.980 They said about the shrine.
00:01:07.720 But then the videos, as far as I know – I mean, I didn't carry a camera.
00:01:10.320 I don't know anyone that did.
00:01:11.940 We're not big into carrying video cameras for the same reason cops do it. 0.55
00:01:17.700 They get busted later.
00:01:18.820 And I've even seen from personal experience with Monday morning quarterbacks
00:01:21.340 who were 5,000 miles away from his bedroom,
00:01:23.080 but they know everything that happened.
00:01:24.860 So it's – I would rather not have video than have guys end up in prison
00:01:29.260 if something bad went down at the time
00:01:31.800 because you're making life and decisions in the blink of an eye.
00:01:34.620 And if you have months or years to analyze movement, that's the problem.
00:01:38.260 So I don't know anything about the video.
00:01:39.420 Yeah, that's the one right there.
00:01:40.360 Risk of inflaming anti-American sentiment and threats to national security
00:01:43.960 if the photos were used as propaganda by terrorist groups.
00:01:47.760 So as of 2025, photos were made with CIA and Pentagon-classified archives,
00:01:52.780 and I've never been released to the public.
00:01:54.580 And 2012, Judicial Watch filed the Freedom Act, but nothing happened to it.
00:01:57.700 So when you're there, did you guys have cell phones or no?
00:02:02.020 I did not.
00:02:03.160 I don't know if anyone did.
00:02:05.720 I did have a camera, but it was 2011, so it wasn't an iPhone.
00:02:09.400 It was just a little camera.
00:02:10.260 Other guys had cameras too, as far as I know.
00:02:12.060 Were people taking pictures at the time or not?
00:02:13.960 Just the official ones in his bedroom.
00:02:16.720 Just the official ones in the bedroom?
00:02:17.920 Well, they weren't official, but they were from the shooters.
00:02:20.000 Because a lot of us carry cameras just based on the amount of shooting and killing we did.
00:02:24.640 They would like pictures almost like a crime scene.
00:02:26.700 Can you get a picture, please, of what went down when you went in the room,
00:02:29.540 which is kind of a pain in the ass, but fine.
00:02:31.420 So we all had, and we knew we wanted to get pictures back.
00:02:33.900 God forbid one of the helicopters with his body gets shot down.
00:02:36.400 We had redundancy with DNA of body, and then different pictures were taken.
00:02:40.560 How would they know that some of you guys didn't keep those pictures yourself?
00:02:44.720 I don't.
00:02:45.640 Oh, no, I'm not saying that.
00:02:47.360 But I'm saying, say somebody's like, dude, I'm going to keep this,
00:02:49.180 and one day I'm going to give it to my grant.
00:02:50.260 Somebody who doesn't believe it, I'm going to keep it.
00:02:52.020 But how do they know that some guys didn't take their own pictures?
00:02:56.120 They don't, right?
00:02:56.680 I mean, it must have been a trust thing, I guess.
00:02:59.040 I know me personally, and I can't speak for everyone,
00:03:01.580 it was more of a get in, get them, and then let's see if we can live.
00:03:04.280 I don't have time for all this other shit.
00:03:06.160 Like, I will get the evidence.
00:03:07.240 I will get the body.
00:03:08.080 I will find the intelligence.
00:03:09.120 We got 23 minutes.
00:03:10.640 It took us 47 minutes.
00:03:11.760 We got to get out of here.
00:03:12.340 We got to blow up that helicopter.
00:03:13.220 Let's go.
00:03:13.480 I want to see my kids again.
00:03:14.920 Hey, what is up?
00:03:15.720 This is Robert J. O'Neill, former SEAL Team 6 operators.
00:03:19.140 I was fortunate to be on some of the most high-profile missions
00:03:21.500 in our very long war on terror.
00:03:23.820 But I am now on MNECT, and you can connect with me there,
00:03:27.980 and we can literally talk about anything.
00:03:30.040 You can text.
00:03:31.240 We can do video calls.
00:03:32.340 I can give you messages.
00:03:33.860 And, you know, go to MNECT, find me.
00:03:36.100 Literally nothing is off limits.
00:03:37.660 Any crazy questions you have that you may or may not want the answers to,
00:03:41.160 I am more than happy to do it.
00:03:42.180 So find me on MNECT.
00:03:43.180 Again, this is Robert J. O'Neill.
00:03:45.240 See you there.
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