A few points that I believe were discussed earlier in the thread that are clarified in the article: the fatally shot unarmed woman was standing next to her husband, who was holding (but not necessarily firing) an AK-47; two of bin Laden's wives were standing between him and the SEALs and one was purposefully shot in the leg when she moved in a threatening way; bin Laden was unarmed throughout and there was never a consideration for possibility of capture (the White House disputes this); it was a CIA rather than military operation (although all the personnel in the strike team were military); it was, at the time, the most recent of a dozen or so cross-border raids conducted without the knowledge of Pakistan, only one of which had been reported in the press (no word on whether more raids have occurred since that time).
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