Osama Bin Laden Killing Video
All the nets are reporting: Osama bin Laden is dead. He was likely killed by a drone attack and his body is in US custody.
Update 1: CNN is reporting that bin Laden was killed by “US military assets” (drone not confirmed) and was killed at “a mansion” near Islamabad, Pakistan and that other bin Laden family members.
Wolf Blitzer speculated that “US military assets” could mean a CIA team.
Update 2: MSNBC is reporting that it may have been a special forces strikes. Further, their report does not contain the mansion reference, and instead are unclear on whether the he was killed in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Update 3: President Obama confirms that Osama was killed by a US military mission at a compound in Pakistan.
Update 4 (Doug Mataconis): MSNBC reporting that the operation was carried out by a Navy SEAL team and that bin Laden was shot in the head during a firefight, after which the SEAL team took custody of his body. Whoever got off that kill shot will never have to pay for a beer again.
He said the helicopters took off from a Pakistani air base in the north of the country.
Women and children were taken into custody during the raid, he said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information.
A U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the raid was on a mansion close to Islamabad
Announcing the operation in a televised statement in Washington, President Barack Obama said the operation took place Sunday.
The news that bin Laden was killed close to Islamabad will raise questions of how he managed to evade capture and how long he had been there. Most U.S. intelligence assessments had placed him along the lawless border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Sunday that bin Laden was dead, a crowd began to form outside the White House gates.
A chant of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the night air, and the quickly growing group spontaneously broke into an off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
"I was in D.C. during 9/11," said Mason Wright, 33, who recalled his days as a student at American University watching a second plane hit the World Trade Center in 2001. "It's hard to believe 10 years later, it's over."
"It's terrible to sit here and celebrate someone's death, but to the thousands of lives that were lost -- it's finally come to an end," he added.
Alan Comar, 29, worked as a contractor in Afghanistan. He clutched his girlfriend as he watched hundreds clad in red, white and blue gather in front of the White House.
"There's very few of those got-to-be-there moments," the Washington resident said. "This is one of them."
Dustin Swensson, who recently served in Iraq, echoed those comments, calling the news "historic."
"It's what the world needed," he said as he celebrated outside the White House gates. "(I'll) always remember where I was when the towers went down and I'm always going to remember where I am now."
In New York, a cheering crowd gathered at Ground Zero -- the site where the twin towers once stood. Strains of "God Bless America" could be heard intermittently trickling through the crowd.
One former New York firefighter -- forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered as a result of the dust from Ground Zero -- said he was there to let the 343 firefighters who died in the attacks know "they didn't die in vain."
"It's a war that I feel we just won," he said. "I'm down here to let them know that justice has been served."
Bob Gibson, a retired New York police officer, said the news of bin Laden's death gave him a sense of "closure."
A chant of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the night air, and the quickly growing group spontaneously broke into an off-key rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
"I was in D.C. during 9/11," said Mason Wright, 33, who recalled his days as a student at American University watching a second plane hit the World Trade Center in 2001. "It's hard to believe 10 years later, it's over."
"It's terrible to sit here and celebrate someone's death, but to the thousands of lives that were lost -- it's finally come to an end," he added.
Alan Comar, 29, worked as a contractor in Afghanistan. He clutched his girlfriend as he watched hundreds clad in red, white and blue gather in front of the White House.
"There's very few of those got-to-be-there moments," the Washington resident said. "This is one of them."
Dustin Swensson, who recently served in Iraq, echoed those comments, calling the news "historic."
"It's what the world needed," he said as he celebrated outside the White House gates. "(I'll) always remember where I was when the towers went down and I'm always going to remember where I am now."
In New York, a cheering crowd gathered at Ground Zero -- the site where the twin towers once stood. Strains of "God Bless America" could be heard intermittently trickling through the crowd.
One former New York firefighter -- forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered as a result of the dust from Ground Zero -- said he was there to let the 343 firefighters who died in the attacks know "they didn't die in vain."
"It's a war that I feel we just won," he said. "I'm down here to let them know that justice has been served."
Bob Gibson, a retired New York police officer, said the news of bin Laden's death gave him a sense of "closure."
