White House: Osama bin Laden was unarmed

Published May 3, 2011 4:00am ET



Osama bin Laden was unarmed when a team of Navy SEALs shot and killed him with at least one bullet to the head, senior administration officials said on Tuesday.

American forces shot and killed two men and one woman on the first floor of bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan before rushing upstairs, where they found the al Qaeda leader in a third-floor room with one of his wives, according to White House spokesman Jay Carney.

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