Former SEAL Recreates Compound To Simulate Bin Laden Raid

By Madeleine Baran, Minnesota Public Radio

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Former SEAL Recreates Compound To Simulate Bin Laden Raid

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August 18, 2012 Updated Aug 20, 2012 at 10:23 AM PDT

The grisly demise of Osama bin Laden has been immortalized on the TV screen and in computer games, and now it has been brought to the world of experience days.

In St. Paul, Minnesota, ex-Navy Seal, Larry Yatch, offers people the chance to participate in a re-enactment of the Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani hideout.

After being kitted out in a flak jacket with a paintball gun, participants practice their aim by shooting at a target.

Tips include aim for 'anything above the mustache to below the turban', reports Gawker.

Then once enough adrenaline is flowing the participants are lead to confront terrorist Osama bin Laden in his secret hideout - which also doubles up as a bare room in Sealed Mindset's 10,000-square-foot studio.

Weapons poised, the Navy SEALS boot in the door and then kill Osama bin Laden in reign of bullets - paintballs.

He returns fire, but after putting up a fight, he slumps to the ground, covered in splodges of paint.

Then participants can pose next to his body, secure in the knowledge that the mission is complete.

One patron described the experience as 'exhilarating' to local news station KSTP.

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