>>15833947Just posted this in another thread.
Flipping between various news channels. What I've gathered:
There was a compound about 30 miles north of Islamabad. 12-18 foot walls topped with barbed wire. No outside communications. US special forces got tipped off by some couriers that Bin Laden was there. Obama chaired three security council meetings, then gave the final order. One helicopter crashed inside the compound and was deliberately burned by its operators (not clear on the reasoning there). Bin Laden resisted. There was a 30-40 minute firefight, in which one woman was killed; she was being used as a human shield. The American operation force consisted of about 40 men, all of whom got out alive, and with Bin Laden's body.