Osama Bin Laden Is DEAD!

[Logan Darklighter]

Some more tidbits via HotAir:
Wow. Just wow.

Update (AP): Amazing. This Pakistani IT consultant
lives in Abbottabad and ended up tweeting about strange goings-on this
morning without knowing the significance, of course. A few choice
tweets:

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S

the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani…

I wonder which cable news net will land the first interview with him tomorrow.

Update: An Al-Arabiya correspondent
claims that two of Bin Laden’s wives and four of his sons were captured
during the raid. Apparently, the key to the whole operation was
finding and tracking Bin Laden’s most trusted courier, a process that
took years — and involved info given by Guantanamo detainees:

Some time after Sept. 11, detainees held by the U.S. told
interrogators about a man believed to work as a courier for bin Laden,
senior administration officials said. The man was described by detainees
as a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and “one of the few Al Qaeda
couriers trusted by bin laden.”

Initially, intelligence officials only had the man’s nickname, but they discovered his real name four years ago.

Two years ago, intelligence officials began to identify areas of
Pakistan where the courier and his brother operated, and the great
security precautions the two men took aroused U.S. suspicions.

Last August, intelligence officials tracked the men to their
residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a relatively wealthy town 35 miles
north of Islamabad where many retired military officers live.

Ultimately, it was the conspicuous size and security precautions
taken at the compound that made it stand out. And when they got further
intel that a family roughly the size of Bin Laden’s was living there,
they nailed it down. In other words, Osama was, for all intents and
purposes, hiding in plain sight.

Also: U.S. officials confirmed that Pakistan was not, in fact, informed before the operation.