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=== News Update ===
Obama watched Bin Laden die on live video as shoot-out beamed to White House
By Ian Drury, David Williams and Sam Greenhill
Last updated at 3:05 PM on 3rd May 2011
- Obama watched assault on compound housing Bin Laden in real time
- Compound was yards from Pakistan’s ‘Sandhurst’ military academy
- DNA tests 99.9 per cent certain man killed WAS Bin Laden
- U.S. embassies on alert over Al Qaeda reprisal attacks
- Obama and George W. Bush both declare: ‘Justice has been done’
President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.
The Seal then carried out what is known in the military as a ‘double tap’ – shooting him again, probably in the chest, to make certain he was dead.
The footage of the battle in Bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout – which played out like an episode of 24 – is said to show one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.
She died, along with three other men, including one of Bin Laden’s sons. Within hours, the Al Qaeda leader’s body was buried at sea.
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