Obama: Decision to Kill Bin Laden Was Heavily Debated

The decision to hunt down and kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was a priority from the moment he took office, President Barack Obama says, but whether to actually undertake the mission was heavily debated. Obama spoke to CNN television Monday, on the fifth anniversary of the special forces operation that killed the world's most wanted criminal -- responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed 3,000 people. It was the first time...

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