US President Donald Trump sparked controversy again on Saturday after he had posted a tweet claiming that the former leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is still alive.
The US president stated that the person who was killed in the raid “was just a surrogate.”
The tweet that Trump re-posted belongs to an account linked to "QAnon", an anonymous body supporting Trump, which promotes conspiracy theories on social media.
Activists posted images of tweets confirming Trump's re-publication of the tweet, while Twitter apparently closed the "Oscar the midnight rider 1111" account that published the article.
Commenting on the tweet, Robert O'Neill, a member of the "Cell Team 6" unit, the squad that killed Osama bin Laden, told the American "CNN" channel, sarcastically: "Is it reasonable that we killed Osama bin Johnson?", adding that "a lot of people will directly believe him, and it could reach a point where it is more than just a political risk.”
“Many people regard Trump's words are sacred."
"A person cannot tweet a similar tweet if he has this number of followers on such an important topic," O'Neill said.
He stressed that the US president knows what happened then, and he has the highest security clearance in the country. Therefore he can see information and pictures of all intelligence agencies.
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