Unpublished images that were captured by White House photographers and published this Friday by The Washington Post thanks to a request for access to public information show in detail how the military operation to bring down the military operation was experienced within the government of Barack Obama. terrorist Osama bin Laden in 2011.
The newspaper obtained more than 900 photographs taken the day of the death of the leader of the Al Qaeda organization, mastermind of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, in which the Twin Towers fell in New York and killed more than 3,000 people.
Bin Laden was hiding in a heavily guarded compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Obama had been told by intelligence sources who had unsuccessfully tracked the US's most-wanted man between Afghanistan and Pakistan for a decade.
Obama and his advisers, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met in the White House Briefing Room to monitor the operation.
"We got him," Obama exclaimed when officials announced that Osama bin Laden had been gunned down inside the compound by a team of elite Navy Seals.
That same night, the president informed the nation of the death of the terrorist, whose body, he said, was flown by helicopter from Pakistan to Afghanistan, where his identity was confirmed.
He was then thrown into the Arabian Sea in a weighted bag after a secret funeral in which he received Muslim burial rites.
Obama delivered a speech confirming the death of bin Laden around midnight on May 1, 2011: “Good evening.
Tonight, I can inform the American people and the world that the United States carried out an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda and a terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children," he said. .
Protesters rushed to the White House to celebrate the death of Bin Laden, after the news appeared on the main television programs in the country, chanting: "USA, USA, USA!"