Trump Claims Early Warning About Osama Bin Laden Before 9/11 Attacks

New York:

President Donald Trump has claimed credit for issuing warnings about Osama bin Laden one year before the al-Qaeda leader orchestrated the devastating 9/11 attacks. During his remarks, Trump also praised US Navy SEALs for their operation that resulted in bin Laden's death, describing how they put a "bullet in his head" and disposed of his remains in the "dark abyss."

While speaking at a ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia commemorating the US Navy's 250th anniversary, Trump declared, "History will never forget that it was the SEALs who stormed the compound of Osama bin Laden and put a bullet in his head."

Trump further elaborated on his claim that he had foreseen the threat posed by bin Laden prior to the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. "Please remember I wrote about Osama bin Laden exactly one year before he blew up the World Trade Centre. And I said, 'You got to watch Osama bin Laden'. And the fake news would never let me get away with that statement unless it was true," Trump stated.

He continued, "But I said one year before...I saw somebody named Osama bin Laden, and I didn't like it. And you got to take care of him. They didn't do it. A year later, he blew up the World Trade Centre."

Trump added, "So got to take a little credit, because nobody else is going to give it to me. You know the old story, they don't give you credit. Just take it yourself."

In his speech, Trump also described how the US Navy "dumped" bin Laden's "wretched corpse off the decks" of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson "to sink into the dark abyss."

The operation that killed bin Laden took place in May 2011, when US Navy SEALs conducted a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. This mission was authorized by then-President Barack Obama.

Following the successful operation, President Obama addressed the nation from the White House's East Room, announcing: "I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children."

Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the US withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden's administration, also claimed that the US could have easily won the Afghanistan war. "But we got politically correct. 'Let's take it easy'. We're not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand, we win. Now we win. We don't want to be politically correct anymore," he concluded.