Osama bin Laden Operation Details of the Day: “Justice has been done,” said President Obama tonight in a speech to the nation confirming the killing of public enemy number one, Osama bin Laden.
According to the president’s official statement, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed during an “targeted assault” by a small team of US operatives on his compound in Abbottabad, a Pakistani city known for being a major tourism hub. US officials believe bin Laden’s adult son and two others were also killed in the assault; no Americans were harmed.
The operation was approved last week after several months of intelligence gathering showed a tip received last November was credible.
The whereabouts of bin Laden’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain unknown at this time.
See Also:
- Statement by former President George W. Bush.
- Statement by former President Bill Clinton.
- Statement by NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg.
- Osama bin Laden’s New York Times obit.
- Media Decoder: How the announcement about bin Laden’s death leaked to the press. Related: How Twitter broke the bin Laden story.
[nyt / breakingnews / @reuters / video: utv.]
