To The Bottom of the Sea: Bin Laden's Last Day

As the president and his team watched in real time, years of intelligence gathering lead a team of SEALs to Osama bin Laden's last stand.

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Story Created: May 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM AKDT

Story Updated: May 2, 2011 at 5:06 PM AKDT

Bin Laden was one of the last to die, shot once in the head, once in the chest. The SEALs carried his body to the helicopter, along with any material they could gather for intelligence purposes. The second helo could not fly so they rigged it with explosives and blew it up.

After the gun battle, a "Sensitive Site Exploitation" team arrived to comb the site and collect intelligence material and DNA samples.

U.S. troops were at the compound for less than 40 minutes.

It was mid-afternoon in Virginia when Panetta and his team received word that bin Laden was dead. Cheers and applause broke out across the conference room.

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Aimee said on Tuesday, May 3 at 11:25 AM

Just Like Micheal Jakson.

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concerned said on Monday, May 2 at 8:12 PM

I don't know why we are all happy happy joy joy...there will still be secret military, our economy was toppled, by our own government and the banks. I guess that's why we want to have other nation's leader's DNA, to make sure we can ID them when we make that move...

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Humpty said on Monday, May 2 at 7:49 PM

All bin Laden would have to do to prove he's alive is to make an appear on live TV. I recommend he use a broadcast studio in Alabama.

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maddick said on Monday, May 2 at 7:29 PM

bin laden dead? i say bull###t

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Brenda said on Monday, May 2 at 6:54 PM

Wheres the body? We saw Hussein's and all his henchmen, his son's, etc. Why do we not see Bin Laden? Buried at sea 2 hours after he was killed and we see no proof, please!

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