'Getting our man out weighed risks of raid'
Published:Monday | May 9, 2011 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP):
President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility "of us finally getting our man" following a decade of frustration, he said in a broadcast interview yesterday.
The helicopter raid "was the longest 40 minutes of my life", Obama told CBS' '60 Minutes', with the possible exception of when his daughter Malia became sick with meningitis as an infant.
In the interview, Obama said that as nervous as he was about the raid, he didn't lose sleep over the possibility that bin Laden might be killed. Anyone who questions whether the terrorist mastermind didn't deserve his fate "needs to have their head examined," he said.