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'No one could breathe while watching bin Laden raid' | US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reveled how she and the fellow
White House officials were so astonished while watching live footage of the operation
that killed Osama bin Laden that they "could not breathe for 30-35 minutes." In
a speech to cadets at the US Naval Academy in Maryland , Clinton gave a first-hand
account of the incredible tension in the famous 'Situation Room' as the drama
unfolded. When asked to reflect on bin Laden's death and the process leading up
to the mission that killed him in his Abbotabad compound, Clinton recalled her
time as a New York senator during 9/11, and how the attack had affected so many
of her constituents. Clinton then moved on to recount the night of the raid and
told how none of the officials in the room watching the operation, including President
Barack Obama 'could breathe for 30-35 minutes,' The Daily Mail reports. In the
picture released by the White House last year, Clinton, Obama, Vice President
Joe Biden and members of the national security team were seen watching as Navy
Seals stormed the compound in Pakistan to take out the Al-Qaeda leader. According
to the paper, Clinton , who was giving speech on US Asia-Pacific policy, also
discussed North Korea 's impending satellite launch programme and described it
as a provocation that threatens the security of the region. She stressed that
history shows North Korea may follow a planned long-range rocket launch in violation
of a UN ban with 'additional provocations.'
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