Writing under the pseudoymn Mark Owen, the SEAL says they were stealthily climbing a narrow staircase in the Abbottabad compound when the team’s point man saw a man’s head emerge from a doorway.

“We were less than five steps from getting to the top [of the stairs] when I heard suppressed shots. BOP. BOP,“ Owen writes in “No Easy Day” according to the Huffington Post which obtained an advance copy. „I couldn‘t tell from my position if the rounds hit the target or not. The man disappeared into the dark room.”