SEAL Team 6 members, as portrayed in 'Zero Dark Thirty' (Photo: Columbia Pictures)We still don't know his identity, but, for the first time ever, we are hearing from the man responsible for the death of al Qaeda and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
He is only identified as "The Shooter" by Esquire Magazine writer Phil Bronstein.
And the Shooter is the SEAL Team 6 member who shot bin Laden dead on May 2, 2011. Over the past year, Bronstein spent time on-and-off with the military operative -- hanging out with him in his back yard and even going to see the Oscar-nominated film that is based, in part, on his life.
After the two screened "Zero Dark Thirty" in January, the shooter shared a lot of gripes. But he also said Jessica Chastain's portrayal of CIA terrorist tracker "Maya" was "awesome." "They made her a tough woman, which she is," he said.
The Shooter revealed that when it happened in real life, and he showed "Maya" bin Laden's body upon the team's return from the mission, she literally wept. (Chastain did not do this in the film.)...
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