"And so shortly after taking
office, I directed Leon Panetta, the
Director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top
priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts
to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.
It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to
ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more
information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a
compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence
to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin
Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my
direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against
that compound in Abbottabad ,Pakistan
."
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