Saturday 1 May 2021

operation neptune spear

Captured by White House photographer Pete Souza (previously) in the late afternoon (just after midnight local time) on this day in 2011 in its namesake Situation Room, it frames US president Barack Obama, vice president Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and numerous security and intelligence officials monitoring live-updates from the field of a CIA-led operation to infiltrate the compound that hosted Osama bin Laden outside of Abbottabad, Pakistan, the raid the culmination of a nearly decade-long search for the founder of the pan-Islamic militant organisation after the 9/11 terror attacks.