Bin Laden 'blew himself up with suicide belt after Navy SEAL shot him

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Bin Laden 'blew himself up with suicide belt after Navy SEAL shot him in the thigh' claims terror leader's former bodyguard

• Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah said he'd not wanted to 'give himself up to US'
• He accused US President Barack Obama of lying in his account of victory
• Also said Bin Laden always wore explosive belt in last ten years of his life

By Amanda Williams

PUBLISHED:05:52 EST, 28 May 2013| UPDATED:09:43 EST, 28 May 2013

Osama Bin Laden was not 'shot dead by Navy SEALs but instead blew himself up with a suicide belt', it has been claimed.

The terror leader's former bodyguard, Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah, has claimed that the al-Qaida chief triggered his explosive belt when US soldiers broke into his compound, killed two of his guards, and shot him in the thigh.

He admitted he was not present at the time of Bin Laden’s death but instead has been told 'what had happened' from one of the terror leader's relatives.

US Special Forces (SEALs) raided Bin Laden's Abbotabad compound in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 and killed the leader as part of ‘Operation Geronimo'.

 

US Special Forces (SEALs) claimed victory in 'Operation Geronimo', after they raided Bin Laden's Abbotabad compound in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 and 'killed the leader'

Abdul Fattah account is being seen as the latest in a string of propaganda by Bin Laden's supporters.

Abdul Fattah told Gulf News he found the official story about the leader's burial at sea 'fishy' and accused US President Barack Obama of lying.

He said: 'Bin Laden’s body parts were cut into multiple pieces, which is similar to suicide attacks following the bombing, so as not to leave any clue to the US forces to identify him. '

Abdul Fattah said he had blown himself up to avoid capture and to 'keep his secrets' until death.

Abdul Fattah claimed that Bin Laden had been wearing an explosive belt over the last ten years of his life. He was adamant he would not 'give himself up' to the Americans, he added.

There have been several accounts of the final hours of Bin Laden.

Just after midnight on the morning of May 2, 2011, 23 commandos and their interpreter attacked Bin Laden's compound. They shot and killed his two bodyguards, one of his sons and the wife of one bodyguard.

 

The first three soldiers to reach the top floor of the house, where Bin Laden's bedroom was believed to be, were 'the point man', 'the shooter' whom magazine Esquire profiled, and the now-famous Matt Bissonnette, another Team 6 member, whose account was published in best-selling book No Easy Day, which was written under the pseudonym Mark Owen.

So far all three accounts are in agreement.

The Shooter told Esquire that what happened next was that Bin Laden peered through his bedroom door and the point man shot at and either missed or lightly wounded him, before tackling two women nearby.

The Shooter claims he then ran alone into the room where he found Bin Laden hiding behind one of his wives, perhaps using her as a human shield. Seeing a gun 'within reach' he shot the Islamist twice in the head.

Another account emerged in March, which claimed that the point man shot and gravely wounded Bin Laden.

CNN security analyst Peter Bergen reported that the point man then leapt on the two nearby women - to absorb any explosion in case they were wearing suicide vests.

Then two more SEALs went into Bin Laden's bedroom and, seeing he was mortally wounded, finished him off.

The account is similar to that given in No Easy Day, where Bissonnette says he was one of the first in the room, saw Bin Laden close to death, then finished him off as he lay on the floor.