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tonight on this special edition of 60 minutes presents he is one of the men who shot Osama bin Laden tonight you will hear his account of the raid on bin Laden's compound are these guys yelling and charging up the stairs is there a lot of action how is it unfolding you know it's not like the movies you know movies make it out to be you know loud and crazy and everybody's yelling quiet calm you're walking up the stairs yes nice and slow though we have a saying you know don't don't run to your death it's extremely rare to hear from a member of SEAL Team six but the mark Owen walks us through the most important counterterrorism strike in US history including the moment that Osama bin Laden was killed we both engaged him several more times and then rolled off and then continued clear in the room when you say you engage him what do you mean fired you shot him yeah good evening I'm Scott Pelley welcome to 60 minutes presents tonight you will hear from one of the men who shot Osama bin Laden Mark Owen recently left the Navy's elite counterterrorism unit SEAL Team six mark Owen is not his real name but it's the name that he used to write his book no easy day about the assault on bin Laden's compound we first brought you his story in September Owen was on the helicopter that crashed into the compound he was the second man in bin Laden's bedroom and he took the pictures of the body that the world has never seen Owen received a Silver Star for valor and a Purple Heart for a wound suffered in the raid but despite all of that Owen told us in his only interview that no easy day is not about him he says it's a tribute to the hundreds of Americans who gathered intelligence planned and trained in the ten year pursuit of the world's most wanted man SEAL Team six he told us just took care of the last 40 minutes was this a mission was the plan to kill Osama bin Laden or capturing before you went in this was absolutely not a kill only mission it was made very clear to us throughout our our training for this that hey if given the opportunity this is this is not an assassination you will capture him alive if if feasible that was the preferred thing yes to take him alive if you could yeah I mean we're not we're not there to assassinate somebody we weren't sent in to to murder him this was hate kill or capture this is a first-hand account from someone who was there the raid May 1st 2011 had been years in the making but in the moment the best-laid plans failed leaving a small team of Americans to improvise victory from near disaster this operation was one of the most significant operations in US history and it's something that I believe deserves to be told right and deserves to to go to go on a book and and stand for self you're in disguise as we do this interview today and I wonder why the focus shouldn't be on me folks should be on the book I'm not trying to be special or a hero or anything um I'm just trying to tell the bigger story but you're in disguise also for your own security yeah absolutely tell me about that what concerns you you know the the enemy has a long memory and so we spent a long time perfecting a new look for Owen before each interview the best artists spent four hours thoroughly changing his appearance we've use shadows to enhance the effect and we've altered his voice when I first joined the Navy had chief petty officer Owen was in the Navy 14 years he had read about the seals in junior high school and set his sights how many times have you been to war since 9/11 I've done 13 combat deployments Afghanistan Afghanistan Iraq holder there are several SEAL Teams but Owen rose to the very top a unit called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group SEAL Team six SEAL Team six is made up of a number of squadrons and I wonder why was your squadron chose for this particular mission was there something special about you no no certainly nothing special about me nothing special about the 24 guys that were chosen nothing special about the our squadron it really could have been any number of guys you just happen to be available for training yes in April 2011 they had just returned from Afghanistan when they were told to report to North Carolina for an exercise give me the lay of the land here what do we see Owen walked into a top-secret briefing room saw a model of a compound and heard this from his buddies what did they say today we found bin Laden we think we found bin Laden and they want us to uh to come up you know rehearse and come up with a plan if there's gonna be a ground option approved they want us to rehearse for one what did you think awesome the mission was operation Neptune spear under the authority of the CIA the agency had tracked a bin Laden courier to a curious compound in Abbottabad Pakistan they'd been watching the compound with satellites the house seemed too big for the neighborhood there was no telephone connection the people there burned their trash there was a wall 12 feet high and a walled-in balcony who lived up there they briefed us on the individual they were calling the Pacer the Pacer of the Pacer so he would come out of the house and kind of walk around the yard to what was assessed to just be getting exercise where did the Pacer pace over here in this courtyard back here right so he's just gonna walk out in here and a lot of the the vegetation out here was probably purposely planted so the surveillance couldn't couldn't see down on him and he would just go round and round and round yep he'd walk around the yard sometimes he'd walk with this has to be a female they just walk around the yard they never stopped to help anybody do any work if there was other people in the yard working he never seemed to do any of that it's about almost above it above doing the manual labor he was the boss whoever he was Bret the Pacer had been in Abbottabad about five years it's a well-to-do city of 1 million people the compound was about a mile from the Pakistani military academy in terms of the inside of the house how much did you know zero zero so once you went through the door you didn't know what you were going to be facing right but again it goes back to that years of experience we've done this a million times raids like this were common many nights in Afghanistan and Iraq and looking at the model the seals didn't think of this as particularly challenging the tricky part was getting there the US wasn't telling Pakistan so the helicopters could be shot down by Pakistan's modern air defenses the pilots were from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment two modified Blackhawks callsigns chalk one and chalk two would drop 24 seals and a Belgian Malinois combat dog named Cairo chalk one which is the one I was on I was going to hover over the compound here we would drop the 2fast ropes slide down the ropes into the courtyard here and then go about our business well chalk 2 would land out here just over here by the road drop the external containment team off they would provide security external we'd have a two men in our combat assault dog would do a quick patrol the perimeter down to the south and around to make sure that there was no tunnels underneath the walls if somebody did hear is coming and had time to escape after dropping those guys off the second helo was going to come up hover over the third floor drop off the remaining guys they would then hop right down into the balcony assaulting from the top down and Argus would assault from the bottom up a few days after getting the mission they had their plan and so began weeks of rehearsals on a full-size version of the compound built in North Carolina how many times did you assault it how many times did you train on it a lot each one when we got the mission and when we left for Afghanistan we probably you know did probably good hunter ties so how unusual was this kind of training yeah very unusual I've never I've never had all the mock-ups I've never rehearsed for something for three weeks one rehearsal had an audience the nation's highest ranking officer Admiral Mike Mullen chairman of the Joint Chiefs the head of Special Operations Admiral Eric Olson and observers from the White House one of the things that I liked after the fact was I remember I'm a moment kept coming by and talking to each one of us and then I've know Olson as well I thought that was that was cool that you know they they walked by shook each of our hands and said hey are you guys ready can you just pull this off and and I'm pretty sure to a man we all said yes absolutely the team got several days off at home around Easter then in late April about a month after they got the mission they loaded on a plane bound for a US base in Afghanistan the president wasn't convinced yet no one confirmed that bin Laden was the Pacer so SEAL Team six was on standby one of the passengers on their plane was a CIA analyst who had spent five years on bin Laden's trail I can't give her enough credit I mean she in my opinion she kind of teed up this whole thing and has just you know wicked smart kind of feisty and she was you know we'd always talked back and forth hey would you know what do you think God's is this or do you think the odds of that are you know hey you know what do you think think he's they're sick 100% hunter percent he's there and you thought what well we'll see three days later on April 30th the president was telling jokes at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner CIA director Leon Panetta's belly-laugh was heard all across the room reporters in ball gowns and tuxedos had no idea that just a few hours before President Obama had ordered Panetta to launch the raid mr. Obama kept to his schedule thinking that on this night it was better to have reporters drinking and laughing than asking questions when did you first hear that the president had approved your mission the commanding officer of our command walked in and said hey just got off the phone the mission to prove what did you think this is this is big to school I'm glad I'm a part of it the raid was supposed to be April 30th but the weather was bad the next night Vice Admiral William McRaven saw the men off he was a seal and he had planned the mission as head of the Joint Special Operations Command just before midnight the Blackhawks started the sprint from the US base in Jalalabad Afghanistan to Abbottabad about a hundred and fifty miles away the helicopters were blacked out against a clear moonless night the army pilots guided by night-vision goggles flew high-speed treetop level under Pakistani radar roughly an hour and a half I remember uh you know we took off shut the doors and and uh the radio call I heard was you know hey we're over the border we're crossing the border into Pakistan and I remember thinking wow this is okay this is happening and I swear I glanced around the helicopter and and half the guys were sitting there asleep on the right ends an hour and a half ride guys got to catch a few Z's on the way in wait a minute your team is flying in to Osama bin Laden's compound and they're asleep yeah I know it's your time to just kind of shut your eyes relax you know mentally walk through whatever you need to walk through it was about 1 o'clock in the morning 66 degrees 65% humidity with calm winds at one minute we opened the door and I just kind of swung my legs out and I'm sitting there looking down I'm thinking wow you know this is this is a beautiful it's a beautiful spot uh houses with pools in the backyard well-lit manicured yards like well this is definitely not you know the mud huts of Afghanistan somehow there was a blackout in the neighborhood no one will say whether that was luck or design but it meant ideal darkness for the seals with their night-vision goggles you could see the compound coming you had the door to the black hole open and your legs were swung outside right you make a little more room be faster to you know quicker for everybody to get out and faster oh by the helicopter so everybody's getting ready to faster oh and then all of a sudden we banked hard 90 degrees once we went hard 90 I was very apparent that was something something was wrong Owen doesn't know what went wrong but pilots say that a chopper can lose lift when it drops into the turbulence of its own downdraft and the turbulence would have been much worse because the downdraft was being magnified and reflected by the compounds walls these pilots are the best in the world you don't you don't get better than these guys and and typically they just boom they move right in and they stick it it's like parking a car for these guys and and it was it was a rough who's a rough ride we were pretty low tail rotor and everything happened to miss this wall here and then we were just kind of sliding and falling out of the sky to this way I was now in the front of the helicopter although I was sitting on the left side I was now the front my buddy right behind me he pretty much should have fallen out if it weren't for him hanging on to me there's a good chance I would have been thrown from the helicopter as the helicopter is going down what were you thinking this is gonna suck you know hey Wow the carefully rehearsed plan was out the window before the first boot hit the ground with one helicopter and half of the seals having crashed the second helicopter abandoned the roof assault is too risky and the seals began to improvise one thing was sure now the people in the house knew they were coming the raid on bin Laden's house was supposed to be straightforward two helicopters callsigns chalk one and chalk two carried 24 members of SEAL Team six each man hauling about 60 pounds of gear one group planned to slide down ropes onto the roof of the house Mark Owens group planned to rope down into the courtyard but Owens helicopter crashed and now everything was changing for the most important counterterrorism assault in US history tell me about the crash the pilot mentioned you know I remember him mentioning in the rehearsals that keno if I have to ditch this thing I'm gonna try and put it down in this courtyard so that's that's exactly what he did you could tell you could hear the helicopter winding up he was putting all the power on it he could but it wasn't helping no nothing came in and impacted boom had the angle been more the rotors would have hit the ground snapped off and caused us to roll had the tail rotor hit obviously we were broke and caused us to break and roll the load-bearing section of the tail landed precisely on the wall the strongest part of the tail just happened to land on the wall yep and the angle happen to be perfect it all came down to inches really inches either way we stopped the main rotor blades are still turning I don't think he could recreate that if he tried lucky lucky but again huge props to these pilots I mean everybody wants to meet the guy who shot bin Laden I want to meet the pilot I wouldn't be here for more friends if the pilot had not brought your helicopter down intact with the mission have failed no I don't think so cos talk to was on the ground and and as soon as they saw us crash land that chalk - helicopter pilots saw that happen decided not to push the position to go to the roof and that's one thing that Admiral McRaven said in one of our very last rehearsals briefs dry runs right there in Afghanistan before we launched he stood up and he said hey listen don't try any fancy stuff just get the guys on the ground and they'll figure it out you mentioned in the book that one of the army pilots that was flying your team looked to you to be about 50 years old he was definitely a little older but I guess in this line of work it's experience it matters yeah yeah it's probably been flying longer than I've been alive so I go through all that they had planned to be on the ground 30 minutes but now they were running late Owens team landed in this courtyard walled off from the house so your team does what I ran out here I turn around and look and I see the guys on the left side of the helicopter they're sitting right and staring at the front door so they simply hop out and go right to the front door like nothing happened go right to this door here yep the other helicopter landed outside the perimeter wall dropped all of its seals and took off now what's your objective what's your team's supposed to do right now we are clearing it securing the southern compound you expect to find people in this building and you want to clear that building so the rest of the team can do what they need to do in here exactly I think what seals are good at is what I consider pickup basketball we all know how to play the game you're the saying and the team says can you shoot move and communicate so we all know how to shoot we all know how to move efficiently and tactically and we can communicate clearly so when something goes sideways we're able to play that pickup basketball I'm just kind of read off each other now the seals were in several groups one group was outside the perimeter wall to make sure no one escaped the group that was supposed to rope to the roof was outside the wall looking for a way in Owen led his team to the outer building where they expected to find one of bin Laden's couriers who got to the door obviously made tons of noise at this point and had taken a little longer to get there so you know the element of surprise is slipping away quickly we got to the double doors I tried it once real quick it was locked my buddy who was with me he's carrying a sledgehammer pulls it out gives it a couple good swings nothing doors not going anywhere kind of solid metal so Mike okay we're going explosive they'll carry explosive charges I pulled one off got on my knee and started setting it and right as I was attaching it around started coming through the door out of somebody who started shooting at you from inside the house in the room and the bullets were coming through the door yep immediately my buddy who was who's standing up started returning fire I could yeah I kind of rolled away from the door blindly return fire back through you couldn't see what was on the other side and then it went quiet thankfully the seal that was there with me to initially return fire with me spoke Arabic so he immediately started calling out to the people inside started hearing the metal latch on the inside of the door what are they are they going to come out with a suicide vest we're gonna throw a hand grenade out are they gonna you know spray that RAK door opens up a female holding the kid a couple kids right behind her you got your finger on your trigger and you're looking at a woman with her children no yes split second I mean we just received fire my buddy speaking Arabic he's asking her you know hey where's your husband what's going on and she replies back to him he's dead you shot him oh and didn't notice until later but he was bleeding a shoulder wound from a fragment of something in the firefight yeah I just got a little piece of fraggin in my shoulder from some of the rounds that came through it really wasn't a major wound at all but um I carry a set of bolt cutters to cut locks with when I got back you know was checking my gears any holes or anything and I pull out the bolt cutters and I've got the bullet stuck in the handle so the bullet just just missed me by a little bit of hail stick up either side of my head right right by your neck but you don't consider that to be a big deal now plenty of other guys have suffered much much more so it's not not a big kill within five minutes Owens team cleared the outer house more seals entered the compound and converged on the first floor of the main building inside they found another courier with an assault rifle those seals were in the process of shooting the second gunman Brett and his wife jumped in front of it all the women on target were very hostile something very different than what we see in Afghanistan or Iraq you typically don't see the women that are this aggressive and hostile even though the females had come out of this building and talked to us they were still very combative and aggressive so and we saw that throughout the entire compound even all the way up on the third floor they secured the ground floor and in the second floor the team continued to head up the stairs single file the first seal in line is called the point man Owen at this point was right behind him number two going up to the third floor the seals had been told they could expect one of Osama bin Laden's sons guys start making their way up the stairs and yeah quiet pitch-black in the house no no lights all night vision get to the second floor Intel had said we think that Khalid his son lives on the second floor this is Osama bin Laden's son don't the guy in front of me who's his point man he sees the head pop out and disappear really quick around the corner it's like okay you know what he who is it what do you think cat I don't know she literally whispers not not amped up not yelling not anything he was pretty clean Khalid whispers colleagues name doesn't know if it's clean or not Khalid literally looks back around the around the edge of the the hall and he shoots him what was Khalid thinking at that time look around the corner you know curiosity killed the cat I guess Khalid - it had been 15 minutes since the crash it was now about 1:15 a.m. give me a sense of what this scene is like in there I mean are these guys yelling and charging up the stairs is there a lot of action how's it unfolding you know it's not like the movies you know movies make it out to be you know loud and crazy and everybody's yelling it's this is what we do we're really good at it and so it's quiet calm like we've done it a million times before we have a saying you know don't don't run to your death so nice to slope and we head up the stairs Khalid is dead on this landing the point man is stepping past Khalid and now you're number two and stack you're right behind the point man yep I kind of try to look around him hear him take a couple shots kind of see ahead somebody disappear back into the room the point man had seen someone stick his head out of door mm-hmm and shot him just the way he shot Khalid yep what did you do that inside the room I could see a body laying on the ground over him was was two females real close to the door they looked up and saw the saw the point man he steps in to the room literally rushes the two women grabs one under each arm and pushes them back against the far wall so if they did have a suicide vest on and they did blow themselves up that they wouldn't that that wouldn't affect the rest of the guys but it would have killed him yeah you stepped into the room and saw the man lying on the floor what did you do myself and the next assaulter in we both engaged him several more times and then rolled off and then continued clear in the room when you say you engage him what do you mean fired you shot him yeah he's still moving a little bit but you couldn't see his arms couldn't see his hands so he could have had something and could add a hand grenade or something underneath his chest so after Osama bin Laden is wounded he's still moving you shot him twice the handful of a handful of times and the seal in the stack behind you also shot Osama bin Laden and at that point his body was still yes did you recognize it no you know everybody thinks he's like you know it's him no to us at that time it could have been anybody maybe this was another brother maybe this is a bodyguard me it doesn't matter the point is is to just continue clearing by now 20 minutes had passed every single thing that the woman with the CIA had told them on the plane had been right but time was running out throughout the raid the remaining helicopter was in the air it only had enough gas to stay for 30 minutes or so pakistani neighbors had discovered the seals posted outside the compound wall and it couldn't be long before the pakistani military would know they were there one seal was charged with keeping an eye on his wristwatch and calling out the dwindling time on the radio 20 minutes 15 10 we'll be right back as time was slipping away Marco in a couple of other members of SEAL team 6 kneeled around a mangled body on the third floor of the house in Abbottabad Pakistan everything the CIA analyst told them about the raid on Osama bin Laden's house had checked out exactly as she said but was this bin Laden you know in my mind he looked way younger than I thought he was going to be his beard wasn't gray at all I'd studied a lot of lots of photos of him and you know they were always gray his beard was was dark black identifiably he was very tall so okay you know he can kind of chalk that up as something bin Laden was about six foot four right his nose to me was something that I could I could kind of identify so you know kind of looking at the profile shots and everything I was like okay I was pretty sure that was him but I you know I'm not willing to make that call certainly not at that point not willing because Owen says they suspected the president was listening at the White House and he was right the helicopter crash had been reported up the chain of command Owen says the seals wanted proof before anyone said anything on the radio about killing Osama bin Laden they turned to one of the seals in the room who spoke Arabic so he moved off to where the women and kids were grabs one of the the younger kids says hey who is that inside she says Osama Osama who Osama bin Laden the child the child identified him grabbed one of the females asked her against a head who is that she said oh Samba lon so does a cheer go up among the seals you start shaking hands patting each other on the back and huh nothing it's all all business were on a clock here so we call up the commanding officer he comes upstairs looks of the body we give him what we have so far hey here's what he looks like take a look he's tall women and kid confirm it he took one look said okay I think that's him the commander used the code word for bin Laden Geronimo as he passed the message to Admiral McRaven for God and country he said I pass Geronimo Geronimo e ki a which stands for enemy in action twenty minutes had passed 10 minutes left on the schedule we wanted to collect DNA samples we wanted to take photographs of them and then we wanted duplicate copies of that so obviously we're taking the body out but if a helicopter got shot down on the way out and it has the body we wanted the other helicopter to have DNA and photos so they have some sort of evidence that said hey we do have them and here it is you wanted duplicates of everything yeah just in case you thought of everything we tried one seal took blood and saliva samples Owen took the pictures I figured these were the probably some of the most important photos I'd ever take in my life so you know make sure I do it right get good angles and all this other stuff but you know you got to clean off the face so you identifiable as possible so one of my buddies had a Camelback with with some water in it got some you know spread some water on them took a sheet off the bed kind of wiped the blood off and then took photos wiping the blood off of Osama bin Laden's face Camelback is one of those backpacks it has a water bladder in it and you use it to drink water out of but you used it to wash his face and you shot pictures of his face and a profile can you describe what they look like they're pretty gruesome well when you say gruesome what are we talking about made-up he had a bullet wound in the head so that gruesome two SEALs took the body downstairs and zipped bin Laden into a bag in the bedroom Owen found an assault rifle and a pistol on a shelf and some people would argue that you know why did that point man take those shots well immediately the first door we went to my team was engaged by enemy fire through the door so automatically we know we're going into it of an enemy compound shots being fired back at us immediately aka found next to Khalid on the stairs all those boxes have been checked that if a guy sticks his head around the corner he very easily could have a gun you don't wait to get that a K or the nay thrown down the hall or the suicide vest so in the split second that's when he engaged he did have a gun but he didn't use it and I wonder what you make of that I think I think in the end he he taught a lot of people to do you know martyr themselves and he masterminded the 9/11 attacks but in the end he wasn't even willing to Roger up himself with a gun and put up a fight so I think that speaks for itself back on the second floor the SEALs were grabbing computers disks flash drives video tapes more priceless intelligence than they could carry there was so much stuff in this house the guys are just stuffing this stuff in garbage bags we had carried bags with us but we filled all these bags up so you just find some you know an old gym bag on target dump out whatever's in it and use that as we were running out I look over my buddy he's got a bag of stuff in one hand like you know Santa Claus out of there a bag full of goodies in one hand that he'd collected any a computer terminal in the other the plan had been to be on the ground for 30 minutes but now they were a few minutes late it was after 1:30 a.m. now things are starting to pick up outside people obviously woken up at this point there they're coming over to investigate what's going on they were the neighbors and they had a lot of questions for the seals standing guard outside the wall so that's where things could get real dynamic for that team outside but he wants to know what was going on inside that team had way more responsibility than just about anybody else because they were dealing with all the what-ifs outside what if the police showed up or the military we're running out of time we got to get going there's neighbors approaching the interpreter that was out here said hey there's a police operation going on here go back to your homes and they'd simply go back away among the unfinished business was the crashed helicopter it was a secret design loaded with secret gear they had to blow it up a message was passed to their explosives expert called the EOD man prep it to blow they said but the it in the message was a little take the EOD guy thinks he means prep the house to blow so there we are in the middle of this and he's like okay Roger that probably to blow so he's running around the first floor of the house setting his charges getting ready to blow up the house and somebody looks over I was like dude do what are you doing it's a god prepping its boys like not not the house the helicopter well he hadn't got the word that there was a helicopter even down he's like what helicopter SiC the one in the courtyard go take a look so he runs outside sees the helicopter and then and then they proceeded to rig it to blow it was past time to go to large helicopters called ch-47 s filled with reinforcements and fuel had been standing by during the raid the remaining Blackhawk would return for half of the seals a ch-47 would pick up the rest the Blackhawk that's picking us up lands first we run through the field carrying the body in the body bag load the remaining Blackhawk and then we slowly lift off and move away while they're waiting for the 47 to come in the timer on the charges is ticking down the explosion on this helicopter is coming how much time it they got not much left minotaurs they're under 30 seconds they're running down the team leader that was in charge of the demo team he gets a hold of the commanding officer gets him on the radio talking there 47 Souls the 47 to do will go around as he's doing it to go around to the south boom the charge goes our Blackhawks already gone this explodes big big huge explosion the 47 comes right back around lands of the guys load on and now there everyone Murdock we're clean from the target that glow at the compound was the helicopter on fire the seals were on the ground about 38 minutes which meant their blackhawk had been in the air waiting a little longer than planned sure enough I'm sitting in the helicopter he turned around and look in the cockpit and I see flashing red lights well I'm not a pilot but anything flashing red and our vehicles typically not good because gas gauges were about to run out of fuel during their escape the seals were forced to land in Pakistan one of the ch-47 s was waiting on the ground and refueled their blackhawk the Pakistanis didn't get you on the way in but your concerns are going to get you on the way out sure we got to get out of here when did you know that you were out of Pakistan they radioed over came on over the radio said hey we're back we're back in Afghanistan and you thought what big sigh relief Wow we might have actually pulled this off this is crazy was there ever a point mark in which you shook hands with each other slapped each other on the back yeah once we landed everybody kind of hugged and high-fived and took a couple photos and you know as our our five-minute hey cool we pulled this off good job and then it was back to work in his book Owen describes how they loaded the body onto a pickup truck and brought it to a hangar where Vice Admiral McRaven head of Joint Special Operations Command was waiting they unzipped the bag standing nearby was that CIA analyst who had spent years on bin Laden's trail miss 100% the woman who told you that she was a hundred percent certain that they had of some of bin Laden right so we're all in the hangar immediately we saw her you know she started crying and it's pretty significant of that you've been her life from sure six hours later the president announced it to the world tonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden the leader of al-qaeda yeah we watched it live it was uh dad some TV set up in the hangar that we were at and literally stolen you're in your camouflage uniform our gear kind of set to the side and we heard it was coming on we went and gathered around and watched the dress what did you think you know now that now the world knows that that that we've got him when you landed back in the United States I mean what did you think of all the media coverage it was all surreal because you know this had all been so hush-hush leading up to it we went did it now it was the biggest news story ever we got on a bus they drove us back to work I didn't even go in and told us we had a couple days off and I grabbed my keys went got my truck and and you know I put it in the book but you know I hit hit Taco Bell on the way home hit the drive-through couple tacos and you know ate it in my car right there and then and then drove off you were part of the team that killed Osama bin Laden and the first thing you do when you get back to the United States is go to Taco Bell to tacos and a bean burrito routine life has been anything but routine for Mark Owen since the publication of his book was first announced we'll have that when we come back go to 60 minutes overtime dot-com to hear more about Mark Owen and what he saw inside bin Laden's room days after returning from the raid in Abbottabad Pakistan Marko and squadron boarded an ancient c-130 transport plane for one more mission the men wondered why the plane was so old and then they found out that it had been used in 1980 in the failed attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran somebody thought it was a fitting piece of American history to carry the men to their secret meeting with the President of the United States the terrorist leader who struck our nation on 9/11 will never threaten America again President Obama was making a speech at Fort Campbell Kentucky and he met with the bin Laden team privately all of the men would receive a Silver Star for valor did the president ask you guys which ones of you had shot Osama bin Laden yeah he asked yes who who was the one and we told him we wouldn't tell you wouldn't tell him why not pulling a trigger is easy you know couple pounds of pressure and your trigger finger and I've done it millions of times and and it's not that hard you know so it's not about who that one person was it's who it was mother Timur I put the helicopter pilots are the the in tell folks that teed this whole thing up who cares who the one person is doesn't matter I wonder in writing this book whether you're worried that some of your fellow seals will be angry with you I've had nothing but an outpouring of support from the guys who know me to quote one of my friends he said hey if anybody can tell the story and do it right it's you and I'm not taking that out trying to toot my own horn they know I'm doing it right you say in the preface to the book that if a reader is looking for secrets this isn't their book absolutely not um not talking secrets of not talking tactics I don't even get into any of that stuff but I really try and give the reader a sense of of what it's like to be to be there the Pentagon is not happy about no easy day they have a different account of bin Laden's final minutes saying that he was first shot when the seals were inside his bedroom this book spokesman George little said that Owen signed a secrecy agreement as a seal and should have submitted his book for editing by the government and the author is a material breach of his secrecy agreements with the United States government we believe that the sensitive and classified information is contained in the book I don't think I could be any clearer than that Owen insists that there is nothing in the book that compromises the secrets of the United States or the safety of the seals but the government is considering a lawsuit to seize the profits from the book the bin Laden raid was Mark Owens last a few months later he went to New York and saw Ground Zero for the very first time our team played a small little piece some people would argue bigger but you know to us it's very we were just doing our jobs not a big deal we were just lucky to be at the right place the right time but then going to New York and and where the World Trade Centers stood at one point and it was it just very very emotional nearly 3,000 people were killed right there alone his emotional it was like you know what I'm it was ready to move on full circle your team had avenged those deaths absolutely when word of the book no easy day came out last August a cable news channel learned Mark Owens real name and reported it since then others have reported his name but we will not Owen wants to donate most of the profits from the book to charities that support families have fallen troops but that will depend on the outcome of any legal action by the government for his part Marco Owen wanted us to know that he thinks of what he's written as a public service to get the history straight and as a tribute to every Navy SEAL wherever they may be serving tonight