Obama and team watch bin Laden operation unfold

The White House released a series of photographs late on Monday, showing US President Barack Obama with various colleagues and advisors in events leading up to his announcement on national television of the death of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

US President Barack Obama (back to camera) in the Situation Room, talks to members of national security team at one of a series of meetings discussing mission, to apprehend Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden

President Obama in the Situation Room making a point at a discussion meeting
Administration members in East Room listening to President Obama's TV speech announcing bin Laden's death, from left, seated: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence; Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor; Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence Agency; Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State
President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden in the Situation Room with members of the National Security Team receiving an update on the bin Laden mission

President Obama listening closely to the action unfold in Abbottabad, Pakistan
President Obama in the Green Room shaking hands with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen. CIA head Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton look on
President Obama working in Oval Office on television speech to announce the death of Osama bin Laden