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so secret The White House did not include it in their descriptions other.Those said everyone in attendance is looking for Bin Laden was probably over. "It was electrifying," said one officer who was there. "For too long we are trying to get hold of the guy. And suddenly, it was like, wow, there it is. "Panetta called Admiral William McRaven, commander of the Pentagon on the Joint Special Operations Command, the headquarters of the CIA in February and asked to prepare some options too, then the president held a series of five meetings with top advisors in March and National Security April to decide what was do.It undesirable option. "At every meeting you are talking about Black Hawk Down," a senior administrative officer, referring to the 1993 debacle in Somalia, where discussions.Obama two U.S. helicopter shot down and special forces are being killed in action. The mission was able to rescue the American hostages in Iran in 1980, which limped from the presidency of Jimmy Carter, chasing also presented with four choices: launching an attack from the air, to stay and continue monitoring until they are more certain that Bin Laden was really there, a special forces raid with the Pakistanis, or to bomb the building, either with a cruise missile or a drone attack aircraft weighing decisions carrier.While, B-2 is placed on alert with a 2000 pound bomb for a man believes that Bin Laden decided to pack up and leave. He was working with the Pakistanis quickly dismissed because of bitter experiences of the past, when members of Al-Qaeda has disappeared just before they were arrested.So to be a missile attack, although it is an option for Gates. Not only was the compound in an urban area where civilians might be killed, but attack could do so much damage can be sure that was actually bin Laden hit.McRaven was told to choose a team for a possible "shoe onthe-ground" raid, an approach which soon became known as "McRaven option. A former Navy Seal, chose the elite Seal Team 6, also known as Devgru, despite the failure of previous action, Linda Norgrove to save British hostage in Afghanistan last October, which ended in his death by a team of grenades. The team began testing for the first time in the United States, then in Bagram, the U.S. base in Afghanistan, in a hasty construction of a composite model based on an analysis of the site next-generation networks, not knowing who the high value target. A "fight-your-way-out" was built in the scheme, with two Chinook helicopters after the two principal helicopters as a backup in case of doubts trouble.Still were there. In a meeting at the White House, said Michael Reiter, head of the National Center to fight terrorism,. gives the probability that Bin Laden is the compound by 40% When he was informed that on the low side, he answered: "Yes, but what we have is 38% better than we had before." Panetta on 26 April - which estimates the probability of 60-80% -.. held its last meeting, with 15 team leaders of the CIA counterterrorism center was around the table they were rough and had a hand