First, everybody has to understand what a empty-headed over-paid in-over-his-head moron little Jay is.
Second, accounts vary for two reasons - eagerness in reporting something when all of the facts are not fully known (a mistake) and eagerness in reporting information that you think people want to hear (sanitized, and still prone to mistakes). It is obvious to me that The Regime is loath to call this what it was, a straight kill mission, getting twisted up over resistance armed or otherwise shouldn't matter a damn...we went in to slay the bastard, we slew him. The Regime, being the multi-culti/diversity/pc baboons they are, are incapable of stating things in simple, direct and accurate ways...they have to massage the information...but that takes time, and in cases like this where info is flowing fast and all facts may not be known after 15 minutes or 15 hours (there are debriefings and after-action reports to process) time may not always be available...so they run with what they got...and the form they put it in!