By Greg Knight
Bin Laden Navy SEAL had ties to Wrangell
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Chief Petty Officer Matt Bissonnette, shown here in an undated U.S. Navy SEAL promotional photo, has been identified as the co-author of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. Bissonnette’s father, Terry Bissonnette, was a magistrate in Wrangell from 1998-2004.
A former U.S. Navy SEAL operator with ties to Wrangell is making news nationally after being exposed as the co-author of a book on his part in the top-secret raid that killed terrorist Osama bin Laden.
Chief Petty Officer Matt Bissonnette, writing under the pseudonym “Mark Owen” is set to release his book No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden on Sept. 4. The book is being co-authored with renowned wartime correspondent Kevin Maurer and will be published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Publications.
The book had originally been scheduled for...
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