Bostons Funniest Blog: Best of Bin Ladin News

I know we all know that Bin Laden has been killed, but i just wanted to post a few interesting bits some of us might have missed about the mission to find and kill him.

Here is a video explaining how the Navy Seals went in and captures him. Its probably the best animation i have seen. Every single one of the Navy Seals wore a camera on their helmet with a live feed to the President in the situation room picture below. Pres. Obama saw the entire mission live and watched them enter the compound and kill Osama. The picture speaks for it self.

Here is the CNN video...great footage here. You see some of the feed from the Navy Seals.

Fun Facts

-- Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945, and his death was announced May 1. Osama bin Laden was killed May 1, 2011.

-- Within two hours of the announcement that bin Laden was dead, more than 145,000 people had joined a Facebook group called "Osama bin Laden is dead 5/1/11."

--The FBI has updated its "Most Wanted" list.

--The original plan was to bomb bin Laden's compound, but President Obama rejected it in favor of a helicopter raid.

--Baseball fans attending Sunday night's Mets-Phillies gameerupted in chants of "USA!" when news of bin Laden's death spread through Citizens Bank Ballpark.

-- 899 people were following the fake Twitter account @binladen at 1 a.m. Monday, but that number was increasing after news of bin Laden's death. Among the tweets from the fake account early Monday: I'm not dead, just a little busy at the moment.

-- Bin Laden was killed 3,519 days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.

-- The U.S. believes bin Laden's son was also killed Sunday.

-- Bin Laden was killed by a bullet to the head.

-- The compound was just 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy.

--Bin Laden was one of more than 50 children of millionaire construction magnate Mohamed bin Laden. Bin Laden was reported to have had at least 23 children from at least five wives.

Cool story

Final shave:

Gary Weddle, 50, was so affected by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that he stopped shaving.

Weddle made a vow not to shave until terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was captured or killed. He thought it would probably take six months, but bin Laden proved to be elusive.

After 3,454 days, a middle school teacher in Ephrata, Wash., was finally free to shave the beard he had been growing since Sept. 11, 2001.

Here are some pics of him shaving after 10 years.