Osama bin Laden’s final words revealed by wife before he was shot and killed by Navy SEAL

Osama bin Laden's wife has revealed the chilling final words he spoke moments before he was shot dead.

On May 2, 2011, US Navy SEAL Team Six carried out Operation Neptune Spear at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, ending a decade-long manhunt for the Al-Qaeda leader following the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Bin Laden’s youngest wife, Amal, later described the terrifying final moments inside the compound during an interview with the Sunday Times in 2017.

Amal revealed that the family woke up to the sound of a helicopter overhead before the walls of the compound began shaking.

She said her husband told one of his sons to "come up" with his gun and instructed his wives to go downstairs because "they want me, not you".

However, Amal stayed behind with the couple’s two-year-old son, Hussein, as they listened to the sound of Navy SEALs moving through the compound.

Realizing there was no escape, she recalled bin Laden turning to her and saying: "Don’t turn on the light."

The power inside the compound had already been cut by US forces, meaning the lights would not have worked anyway. Moments later, Navy SEALs entered the room.

Amal said she rushed toward the first soldier before suddenly collapsing after being shot in the leg.

The raid ended with bin Laden being gunned down inside the compound where he had spent years hiding behind intense security measures that prevented outsiders from seeing in while also limiting his own view of the outside world.

Time Magazine reported that bin Laden reportedly had money sewn into his clothing and carried two phones to call for help, though neither helped him escape.

Navy SEAL Recalls Face-To-Face Encounter With Bin Laden

Robert J. O'Neill, the former Navy SEAL who claims he fired the fatal shots, later shared his memories of the raid and the moment he came face-to-face with the world’s most wanted terrorist.

Speaking during Netflix’s American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, he said: "I turn this way and standing in front of me, two feet away is Osama bin Laden. It was one of those moments in life where things slow down," cited by The Mirror.

"He's taller than I thought, he's skinnier than I thought, his beard was grey/white, but I recognized his nose, this is definitely him. He's not surrendering, he's a threat, not only to me but to my entire team, he has to die."

"I can hear bin Laden taking his last breath. When I shot him he fell to the foot of the bed," he continued. "I shot him in the face three times. I moved Amal and… his two-year-old son is now standing there, and this is the humanity of everything."

"This kid has got nothing to do with this. I’m a father. I picked him up, and I move them to the back of the bed," he added.

One Regret After The Historic Mission

Despite the mission being considered one of the biggest military operations in modern US history, O’Neill admitted there is one decision he strongly disagrees with.

After the raid, bin Laden’s body was buried at sea to prevent his grave from becoming a shrine.

However, O’Neill said he believed a different message should have been sent. "I would have hung him from a bridge in New York City," he said, per The New York Post.

The former Navy SEAL also stressed that the mission was driven by the memory of the victims killed on September 11, 2001.

"We were going for the single mom who dropped her kids off at school on a Tuesday morning, then an hour later, jumped out of the World Trade Center, pressing down her skirt as her last act of human decency," he said. "She was never supposed to do that."

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