Just tonight, the President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle had their first interview after the election to 60 minutes.
In a taped interview with Steve Kroft, Obama referred to the planning and execution of the operation to remove "Geronimo" as bin Laden has been called, and the decisions that followed.
What was the hardest part of the raid, said the president, is that the Navy Seals was "going in the dark of night. And do not know what they find there. I do not know if the building has been tampered with. I do not know if you have explosives, which are activated by particular port ... My main concern is that if you send them down? "
Moreover, despite a strong intelligence, the president said he "can not say with certainty that bin Laden was there."
Obama told Kroft Mission "was the longest 40 minutes of my life, with the possible exception of when Sasha had meningitis when she was three months and I waited for the doctor to tell me she felt fine. It was a very tense situation. "
The president admits he was nervous.
Only after completion of the transaction is the president knew they had a place and got their man.
"There was a point of first the people were gone before we had all returned to the helicopter and flew back to base, where they said Geronimo was killed .... And Geronimo was the code name for bin Laden. "
Although the president said he would not release an image of Al-Qaeda, it ensures Kroft, "You will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again."
Obama concluded by saying: "I was so nervous about this whole process, the only thing I have not lost sleep was the opportunity to take Bin Laden. Justice has been done. And I think no one would doubt that the perpetrator of mass murder in U.S. territory did not deserve what should have his head examined. "
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