It comes as no surprise that the SEALs had helmet cams recording the entire bin Laden raid. The only surprise is that officials are acknowledging that fact:
We now know that the only firefight took place in the guest house, where one of bin Laden’s couriers opened fire and was quickly gunned down. No one in the main building got off a shot or was even armed, although there were weapons nearby.
The SEALs first saw bin Laden when he came out on the third floor landing. They fired, but missed. He retreated to his bedroom, and the first SEAL through the door grabbed bin Laden’s daughters and pulled them aside.
When the second SEAL entered, bin Laden’s wife rushed forward at him — or perhaps was pushed by bin Laden. The SEAL shoved her aside and shot bin Laden in the chest. A third seal shot him in the head.
The reporting of this episode has been a watershed in revealing the basically dishonest nature of modern life: people are not even trying to be honest. We will never get to the bottom of it. OBL is already a legend, rather than history; his death already akin to the legends about the death of Rasputin.