CIA kills Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan

UPDATED: Pictures of bin Laden's mansion & (fake pictures) dead body at bottom of this post.

This just in: Obama said a "small team of US operatives" killed Osama bin Laden in a firefight in an Abbottabad compound in Pakistan.

Navy SEAL Team Six acted on intelligence gathered by the CIA, it has been revealed. Obama thanked the armed forces and "counter terrorist operatives." It was called a "targeted assault" based on "actionable intelligence." The entire operation apparently took 40 minutes to complete once the Navy SEALs were on the ground.

Helicopters surrounded the mansion in the Bilal district of Abbottabad. Apparently one helicopter malfunctioned, crashed, could not take off again and was promptly blown up by the Navy SEAL crew. There is contradictory information as to how many were killed. US forces are said to have recovered the body of Osama bin Laden. An unnamed US official has said that bin Laden's adult son was also killed during the raid along with two others. OBL was apparently given an Islamic burial at sea.

The CIA-dominated journal The Washington Post has called it a CIA operation.

Abbottabad is a beautiful, wealthy city directly north of Islamabad. Apparently, bin Laden and other major al Qaeda players had been living in Abbottabad mansions for some time. This operation is the result of months of intelligence work.

According to US officials, OBL's body was dumped in the Indian Ocean by the US Navy early Monday morning.

We can only speculate as to what this means for the remainder of the efforts against al Qaeda. Hopefully, it will be the beginning of a swift end to these conflicts and a reduction en masse of Western forces in the Middle East.

And images of the body were shown on Arabic television, it has since been illustrated that they are fake:

Two pictures from al-Jazeera network of mansion where Osama bin Laden lived and was killed: