Sitting in White House, Obama watched Osama die
US President Barack Obama watched the real action unfold live on a TV screen as a US commando gunned down Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Abbottabad in Pakistan on Monday. He broke the news to the world later that the US Navy Seals had taken the world's deadliest terrorist.
Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a US Navy Seal, President Obama saw Osama being shot in the left eye, the Daily Mail reported. The Seal then carried out what is known in the military as a 'double tap' - shooting Osama again, probably in the chest, to make certain he was dead.
The photos issued by the White House late Monday night show Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in similar poses, their hands clamped over their mouths, sitting around a table and watching the TV screen.
Image: In this image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to diffuse the paper in front of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, Sunday, May 1, 2011, in Washington.
Text: IANS
Images: AP
