NEW YORK President Barack Obama gifted a measuring tape to the commander of the US SEALs, which killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, after he found out that the commandos did not have one to measure the height of the slain al-Qaeda leader.
Bin Laden was believed to be about six feet four, "but no one had a tape measure to confirm the body's length. So one SEAL, who was six feet tall, lay beside the corpse: it measured roughly four inches longer than the American," The New Yorker magazine said in its latest issue bringing to light new aspects of the mission, codenamed Operation Neptune's Spear.
Earlier, when bin Laden's body was brought, a pair of SEALs unloaded the body bag and unzipped it so that Vice-Admiral Bill McRaven, the SEAL in charge of the operation, and the CIA station chief could see the corpse with their own eyes.
Once McRaven was convinced, he appeared on the teleconference screen in the Situation Room in the White House and confirmed that the al-Qaeda chief's body was in the bag.
Then the corpse was sent to Bagram airbase from where it was transported on a flip-wing V-22 Osprey aircraft to USS Carl Vinson - a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the Arabian Sea.
Bin Laden's body was then given a sea burial.
Bin Laden was believed to be about six feet four, "but no one had a tape measure to confirm the body's length. So one SEAL, who was six feet tall, lay beside the corpse: it measured roughly four inches longer than the American," The New Yorker magazine said in its latest issue bringing to light new aspects of the mission, codenamed Operation Neptune's Spear.
Earlier, when bin Laden's body was brought, a pair of SEALs unloaded the body bag and unzipped it so that Vice-Admiral Bill McRaven, the SEAL in charge of the operation, and the CIA station chief could see the corpse with their own eyes.
Once McRaven was convinced, he appeared on the teleconference screen in the Situation Room in the White House and confirmed that the al-Qaeda chief's body was in the bag.
Then the corpse was sent to Bagram airbase from where it was transported on a flip-wing V-22 Osprey aircraft to USS Carl Vinson - a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the Arabian Sea.
Bin Laden's body was then given a sea burial.
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