Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw BinLaden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not
Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s body
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Robert Mackey29 Aug 2026, 03:07 pmUpdated 1d ago1 min readAmericasUnited States
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Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not
Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s body
In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan ’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden , the leader of al-Qaida who was shot and killed in an American military raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011.
“When I served as a US army officer and an FBI special agent, I swore a sacred oath to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” Rogers wrote, according to a screenshot of the email shared online by Azi Paybarah, a former Washington Post reporter now with Straight Arrow News. “I dedicated my life to keeping our families safe – working in the shadows, hunting down terrorists, and standing on the frontlines of our national security.”
In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan ’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden , the leader of al-Qaida who was shot and killed in an American military raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011.
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Source: The Guardian · Robert Mackey. Published 29 Aug 2026, 03:07 pm.
