i think everybody wanted him dead. we did realize that we need to get as much intelligence as we can out of this house, but my initial reaction was, let s pick him up and go now, cause this is all we need. we just ended the war. after they killed bin laden, they want to get a picture of him. they want to get an assessment of who it is they ve just killed. and they immediately saw that it was bin laden. they want to herd the women and children together and out of the house to get them out of the way. one of the seals that spoke arabic was talking to one of the daughters. she finally admitted, that s sheik usama. and then the call was made to our boss outside, and then he made the call to admiral mcraven where he said, for god and country, geronimo, geronimo, geronimo e.k.i.a. geronimo was a pro word that we would use saying, we found him. we got him. so, we don t need to say, we got bin laden over the radio. and they began systematically
dead. we did realize that we need to get as much intelligence as we can out of this house, but my initial reaction was, let s pick him up and go now, cause this is all we need. we just ended the war. after they killed bin laden, they want to get a picture of him. they want to get an assessment of who it is they ve just killed. and they immediately saw that it was bin laden. they want to herd the women and children together and out of the house to get them out of the way. one of the seals that spoke arabic was talking to one of the daughters. she finally admitted, that s sheik usama. and then the call was made to our boss outside, and then he made the call to admiral mcraven where he said, for god and country, geronimo, geronimo, geronimo e.k.i.a. geronimo was a pro word that we would use saying, we found him. we got him. so, we don t need to say, we got bin laden over the radio. and they began systematically
there was a couple high-fives but not until they were in the helicopters on the way back out. reporter: back in the situation room, a dispatch crackled through at five minutes to 4:00. geronimo ekia, the code that the enemy, osama bin laden, has been found and killed in action. applause breaks out. the words that were unspoken by people in that room was we got him. even though we still were not certain at that time, over the course of the next several minutes and next several hours, our confidence grew as more and more pieces came together, facial recognition, height measurement, and then dna. reporter: it was bin laden, they say, with 99.9% certainty. the manhunt of more than a decade was over. maybe we ve come to an end. maybe we ve done justice for those people, all those innocents, who were killed by bin laden over the years, not just on 9/11 but other tames. nbc s dennis murphy reporting. and we ll be right back.
behaving confuse cowardly bin laden shoves her at the seal. bin laden s wife rushed the u.s. aer and shot in the leg and not killed. two weapons, the elite seal team takes osama bin laden out. a double task once in the tesk and once in the head. in washington, president obama receives the message. geronimo ekia. and back in the court yard they detonate explosives to destroy one of the helicopters disabled on landing. pictures receive that it is outfitted with a mod fighted tail boom to release nose and covered in material similar to fighters. 1:10 a.m.. team six depart and taking
they are wonder whog is to blame for who is to blame over the code name. they are upset over the name yes, sir. that was a famous apache who evaded capture in the 1880s. it lead to the transmission once he was killed geronimo ekia. they say why pick on us? robert e lee killed more americans than geronimo did, and hitler is evil per son fight. but the code night is geronimo? that is always fun. let s discuss it in lightning round. was it a bad choice? well, i think the whole thing with the code name is