"Countdown bin Laden": Obama's pursuit of the 9/11 mastermind

The 2011 military assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was so successful, it is possible to forget how difficult the U.S. Navy SEAL mission really was

"The SEAL team that went into this, they didn't think they would make it back," said CBS News correspondent John Dickerson. "That was a surprise to me," said Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. "One of the top CIA operatives, back watching the drone view back at Langley, at CIA Headquarters, fully expected that he was gonna see the compound just explode like a Jerry Bruckheimer action movie – that the whole place was just gonna blow up."