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As President Obama's two terms in office come to a close, TIME is taking a look back at the most pivotal moments of his presidency._ --- Jul 28, 2023 4:22 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Anatomy of a Raid: Osama bin Laden's Final Moments](/video/A8p4cZgq/) ### Anatomy of a Raid: Osama bin Laden's Final Moments [Inside the Raid to Kill Osama bin Laden](/video/7wgyaJlk/) ### Inside the Raid to Kill Osama bin Laden [President Obama on the Death of bin Laden](/video/OVfQ8fHg/) ### President Obama on the Death of bin Laden --- ## Transcript That the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda. So President Obama had run for office promising to fight the war on terror differently than President Bush. But he did say from the beginning that he would, if he could, kill the man responsible for the September 11th attacks. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] The day before the raid launched, he went to the White House Correspondence Association dinner, which is a comedic event broadcast live on C- SPAN. Well, back to square one. [ LAUGH ] But at that point we found out later he all ready. Basically knew that this raid was going to be happening, that they had identified with satellite footage and some other intelligence, a compound in Pakistan where it appeared Bin Laden was living. The president had to make one of the most difficult decisions of his presidency. The intelligence was good, but it was not conclusive. To authorize the mission President Obama had to invade, essentially, Pakistani airspace. And there was a disagreement among his senior staff about whether the risk was worth it. This could really tar his administration and his presidency, and be a real disrupting event For the world, for the president decided to go forward with it and so 24 hours after going to laugh at a comedian in front of a national press and Washington dignitaries and celebrities. It began to leak out that Bin Laden was dead and people spontaneously began streaming to the White House. [ MUSIC ] For Obama it's sort of proved that he'd had what it took to be Commander of Chief I mean in a lot aways the early days in the Afghanistan surge there were a lot of talks about how he was gonna lead America's military those doubts all ended with ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Days That Define the Obama Presidency: The Death of bin Laden","description":"As President Obama's two terms in office come to a close, TIME is taking a look back at the most pivotal moments of his presidency. 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