President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. A classified document seen in this photograph on the notebook computer in front of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been obscured. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

In the photograph provided by the White House, President Barack Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden shown on the left; Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen stands behind the president; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon stands next to Mullen; White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley stands next to Donilon; Deputy National Security Advisor John O. Brennan stands next to Daley; Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper stands next to Brennan; Defense Secretary Robert Gates sits next to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Other members of the National Security team not yet identified in the photo.

The U.S. is releasing more details on the raid and firefight that killed Osama bin Laden in a luxury Pakistani compound, and on his burial in the North Arabian Sea.

“Geronimo” was the operational name for the target Osama bin Laden.

The National Security team members were relieved when a Navy SEAL transmitted a coded message to the White House Situation Room “Geronimo-E KIA” — “E” for ENEMY and KIA for KILLED IN ACTION. Bin Laden was shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest after hiding behind a woman.

The operation sent two teams of 12 NAVY SEALS in for a drop from Blackhawk helicopters to a walled compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan.

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Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office of the President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned after his election to the presidency.

Barack Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. He was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree, worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.

Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. His victory from a crowded field in the March 2004 Democratic primary raised his visibility, and his prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 made him a rising star nationally in the Democratic Party. When Republican nominee Jack Ryan withdrew from the race after a scandal erupted involving the divorce of his wife, actress Jeri Ryan; Republicans approached former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka to run against Barack Obama. Mike Ditka decline the offer and Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in Illinois history.

Obama began his run for the presidency in February 2007. After a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama won his party’s nomination. Barack Obama was now the first major party African American candidate for president, beating a candidate that would have been the first woman to run as major party candidate. A controversy grew over Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama. Many women believed she chose race over her trademark advocacy of women.

In the 2008 general election, Barack Obama defeated Republican candidate John McCain and was inaugurated as President of the United State of America on January 20, 2009