President Obama Says...
...that:
1) He directed CIA to make killing or capture of Bin Laden top priority of war against Al Qaeda;
2) Last August, he was briefed on a possible lead on Bin Laden, hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan. It took months run this lead to ground.
3) Last week, we decided we had enough enough information.
4) A small operation was conducted today by U.S. forces--none of whom were harmed. (Not a drone strike.)
5) Bin Laden was killed in a firefight, and his body was captured.
6) Pakistani leadership agrees that this was a good and essential operation.
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...that:
1) He directed CIA to make killing or capture of Bin Laden top priority of war against Al Qaeda;
2) Last August, he was briefed on a possible lead on Bin Laden, hiding within a compound deep inside Pakistan. It took months run this lead to ground.
3) Last week, we decided we had enough enough information.
4) A small operation was conducted today by U.S. forces--none of whom were harmed. (Not a drone strike.)
5) Bin Laden was killed in a firefight, and his body was captured.
6) Pakistani leadership agrees that this was a good and essential operation.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
