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To: Les H who wrote (19835)5/2/2011 12:52:11 AM
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Obama said the operation was months in the making, after "years of painstaking work" by intelligence agencies yielded new clues to bin Laden's whereabouts last summer.

"I met repeatedly with my National Security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located Bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan," Obama said in an address from the East Room of the White House Sunday evening.

"Finally, last week I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," Obama said.

President Barack Obama reads his statement to photographers after making a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 1, 2011."Today, at my direction the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

Officials said bin Laden's identity was later confirmed, likely through DNA testing, and his body is in U.S. possession. He is expected to be buried at sea.

The government has not said whether a photo of bin Laden will be released to the media as proof of his death.

abcnews.go.com
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