John Brennan, a chief counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama, described to reporters on Monday the "tense" operation that killed Osama bin Laden, which he described as "decapitating the head of the snake known as al-Qaeda."
Brennan says bin Laden was engaged in the firefight, but it was unclear if he got any shots off. He identified bin Laden as the combatant who used a woman as a human shield. She was the only woman killed in the operation. Brennan later said it was his understanding that the woman was one of bin Laden's wives. |