President Obama Monitors the bin Laden Mission

President Obama Monitors the bin Laden Mission
Pete Souza / The White House

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President Obama listens during one of a series of meetings in the Situation Room of the White House discussing the mission against bin Laden on May 1, 2011. For 40 minutes, the President and his senior aides could do nothing but watch the video screens and listen to the operation and ensuing firefight on the other side of the world.

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