No Easy Day: Former US Navy Seal gives first television interview

Former Navy SEAL, in his interview, says he was sure the dead man was Osama bin Laden.

Former US Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who wrote a first-hand account of Operation Neptune Spear that killed Osama bin Laden, gave his first televised interview on his book “No Easy Day” to US television network CBS.

During the interview, the former SEAL who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Owen, reiterated what he wrote in the book and said that the former al Qaeda leader Bin Laden was already dead with a bullet-wound to his head when the SEALs arrived in his bedroom.

“I was pretty sure it was him, but I’m not willing to make that call,” he said during the interview.

When asked why he did not tell US President Barack Obama about who pulled the trigger which killed Bin Laden, the former commando said, “Pulling a trigger is easy… It’s not about who that one person was, it’s about the team.

“Who cares who the one person is. Doesn’t matter,” he added.

Bissonnette also demonstrated his team's actions using a scale model of the Abbottabad complex which they had stormed on the morning of May 2, 2011.

The book has already featured on Amazon’s bestseller list for the last two weeks, despite being released on September 4.

Earlier in the week the Defence Department had warned the ex-commando and his publisher not to release “No Easy Day” next week, saying the author violated non-disclosure agreements he signed while in uniform.

The Pentagon said it has reviewed the text but officials declined to say if the book reveals state secrets, vowing to keep all legal options open.