Former Navy SEAL Mark Bissonnette, who used the pseudonym 'Mark Owen' to write the book 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden', says a member of the elite squad saw the terror leader as he ducked into his bedroom, and the soldiers, who were climbing stairs to the third floor, followed.
"We were less than five steps from getting to the top when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP. I couldn't tell from my position if the rounds hit the target or not. The man disappeared into the dark room," he wrote in the book, according to MailOnline.
The book says the mission was quite unlike the popular version of what was given out of momentous events at the house in Abbottabad, where US Navy SEALs killed Osama in May 2011.
While various media outlets reported that Osama was armed and showed no intention of going quietly, the special forces man writes that the notorious terror boss was already gasping in his last breath when the soldiers stumbled upon him.
Owen said as Osama lay dying, he and another commando "trained our lasers on his chest and fired several rounds. The bullets tore into him, slamming his body into the floor until he was motionless."
The book described Osama as wearing a white t-shirt, loose-fitting tan pants and a tunic. While photographing the terror leader's body, two guns were found in the room, but neither was loaded.
In the account given out by the US administration after the raid claimed that the SEALs shot Osama only after he ducked into the bedroom because they assume he may be reaching for a weapon.
