The White House Flickr feed released this image of President Obama and his national security team monitoring the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The facial expressions of the President, Vice President and Secretary of State say everything.
ABC News' Nightline produced a dramatized timeline of the covert mission, watch it AFTER THE JUMP ...
This morning's print edition of the New York Times includes a special ten-page supplement behind the raid with analysis. One of the more detailed reports goes behind the scenes in the Situation Room:
On Sunday afternoon, as the helicopters raced over Pakistani territory, the president and his advisers gathered in the Situation Room of the White House to monitor the operation as it unfolded. Much of the time was spent in silence. Mr. Obama looked "stone faced," one aide said. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. fingered his rosary beads. "The minutes passed like days," recalled John O. Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief.
Watch Nightline's excellent report AFTER THE JUMP ...
I just hate that the CIA and military guys had to code name it "Operation Geronimo" Geronimo was the popular name given to the great Apache general, Goyahkla. He is a hero to Native Americans and many others. To give the slimy Bin Laden the name of an courageous hero, "...we've ID'd Geronimo...we've got Geronimo." How would we feel if they nick--named the bastard "Operation Nat Turner"?
Why couldn't they have given him the code name "Limbaugh" or "Glenn Beck" or "Alan Keyes"?
"We've ID'd Coulter...Operation Coulter complete!"
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 03 May 2011 at 11:09