WASHINGTON –  A supporter of
Islamic State militants has issued a threat against Fox News contributor Rob
O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that killed Osama
bin Laden, and also posted the ex-commando’s purported home address in Montana
on-line.

Undersheriff
George Skuletich of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department said on
Tuesday O’Neill no longer lives in the Butte area but that his agency was aware
of the posting and contacted federal authorities.

O’Neill,
39, who grew up in Butte, told The Washington Post last year that he was the
Navy SEAL who fired the fatal gunshot that struck bin Laden in the forehead
during the U.S. raid in May 2011 on the al Qaeda leader’s compound in Pakistan.

Fox
News Channel, which hired O’Neill as a network contributor earlier this year,
has profiled him in a television documentary titled: “The Man Who Killed
Usama bin Laden.”

The
killing of the leader behind the devastating Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York’s
World Trade Center and the Pentagon was considered a major national security
victory for President Barack Obama and the U.S. military.

A
message posted on Saturday to the Twitter account of Sally Jones, widow of a
slain Islamic State computer hacker, contained a link to a lengthier message on
the text-sharing site Pastebin that contained O’Neill’s purported address in
Butte.

The
Twitter post carried the hashtag #RunRobertRun and the Pastebin message
referred to the Montana address as a “number one target.”

Both
elements of the threat were documented by the private SITE Intelligence Group,
which monitors jihadist activity. The Twitter account and the Pastebin page
have since been disabled, but SITE reported it was circulated online by Islamic
State supporters.

According
to the Counter Extremism Project, Jones is a British convert to Islam and
former punk rocker who moved to Syria and was married to Junaid Hussain, an
Islamic State hacker and recruiter. Hussain, who also was from Britain, is
believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in August.

A
Fox News spokeswoman said O’Neill would discuss the matter during a Tuesday
night appearance on the show hosted by network commentator Sean Hannity.

An
FBI spokesman declined to comment on the matter.

Last
November, when O’Neill took credit for firing the shot that killed bin Laden,
he also acknowledged at least two other Navy SEAL members, including Matt
Bissonnette, shot at the al Qaeda leader. Bissonnette chronicled the mission in
the 2012 book “No Easy Day” but did not identify the shooters.