The most important achievement of yesterday’s operation wasn’t killing Osama. It was the US Navy SEALs’ booty: dozens of computers, memory sticks and disks loaded with information that might just crush all of al Qaeda’s network. After shouting “Geronimo!” to their commander over radio–the signal that indicated the death of bin Laden from a shot above his eye–the SEALs grabbed all the electronic material they could find in the compound and ran with it and Osama’s body to their custom MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. With their weapons still hot, the commando handed the electronic material to a special team of CIA and military intelligence operatives. According to a US official speaking to Politico, hundreds are going through the data in a secret location in Afghanistan:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=111947