"They selected a group of combat veteran navy SEALs."We were given the most time to prepare for this mission." ONeill also recalled how he had arranged for a last conversation with his father.ONeill has faced criticism after first going public with his story. We would talk before a lot of missions, he would joke like, I wish I could go with you! I would say, I know, Dad, I wish you could, too. "We were preparing to not come home. Asked as to whether the rest of the team he worked with that night were "cool" with him telling his story, ONeill said that he thought that "some will be happy and some will be upset. We didnt know what the inside looked like, but that didnt matter."My father, he and FKM O ring I talked. I saw bin Laden, and he was a threat, he was not surrendering, and so I took -- I treated him as if he were a suicide bomber, which I assumed he was, and I shot him in the face three times," he said. Despite his concerns, the raid on Osamas Pakistan compound "wasnt even one of the most difficult targets weve been on," he said. We knew most of the contingencies," he said.ONeill said he participated in more than 400 missions during his time with the SEALs. I was able to watch as we slowly went up the stairs," the ex-Navy SEAL said.

It was the best team Ive ever been a part of," ONeill said.Talking about the night of the raid itself, ONeill said that "everyone just did their jobs". So we knew the outside of the compound very, very well.Ex-Navy SEAL team shooter Robert ONeill told CNN about the preparations he made before he left for the trip, which included arranging to have a last meal with his kids and heading to the mall to buy them "never coming back presents"...I wasnt afraid, I was just focused," ONeill was quoted as saying.. That was the last conversation," ONeill said."As depressing as that sounds. Wed all done it hundreds and hundreds of times. "Our tactics took over.Washington: An ex-Navy SEAL, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, has said that ahead of the 2011 Abbottabad raid he bought farewell gifts for his children and had a "last conversation" with his father as he believed it was a "one way" mission."ONeill, in his book The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Bin Laden, has revealed that Osamas head was so severely destroyed by his gunfire that it had to be pressed back together for identification."And when we got to the top, I was in position where I turned a corner and I did what any SEAL, any Ranger, any special operator would have done.

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