The former U.S. Navy SEAL who claimed he killed Osama bin Laden in his 2017 tell-all book has been nabbed for assault in the Dallas suburb of Frisco in Texas.
The 47 year old Rob O’Neill is currently facing misdemeanour charges of assault causing bodily injury and public intoxication, a spokesperson for the Frisco Police Department told reporters on Monday.
Africa Today News, New York reports that he was arrested Wednesday, booked into the Collin County Jail, and released on a $3,500 bond the same day, the newspaper reported.
O’Neill, a resident of Tennessee, was in Texas to record a podcast at a cigar lounge, social media posts showed.
The former soldier first alleged he killed bin Laden in an interview with the Washington Post in 2014, three years after the 2011 mission.
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The Pentagon has never confirmed whether or not O’Neill fired the shots that killed the terrorist leader.
Some have asserted that the soldier cannot support his claim that he killed bin Laden because Matt Bissonnette and other members of SEAL Team 6 also entered the room.
Due to security concerns and threats, special operations forces often don’t show themselves.
Because he described his experiences in his books No Easy Day and No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy SEAL, Bissonnette was the subject of an investigation.
Later, Bissonnette settled a legal dispute and consented to pay the US government his royalties.
Ahead of the start of the new school year, France’s education minister said that children will not be permitted to attend state-run schools while wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe used by certain Muslim women.
France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs in state schools since 19th-century laws removed any traditional Catholic influence from public education, has struggled to update guidelines to deal with a growing Muslim minority.
French public schools do not permit the wearing of large crosses, Jewish kippas or Islamic headscarves.
In 2004, the country banned headscarves in schools, and in 2010, it passed a ban on full face veils in public, angering many in its five million-strong Muslim community.