Joe Biden, left, sits alongside Barack Obama and national security advisers as they follow the mission against Osama bin Laden in the White House Situation Room on 1 May 2011. Photograph: Reuters
The then vice-president suggested Obama wait before ordering the mission that killed the al-Qaida leader in 2011, new memoir says
Joe Biden advised Barack Obama to wait to order the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the former president writes in his new memoir. “Joe weighed in against the raid,” Obama writes in A Promised Land, about discussion of the Navy Seals mission, which he ordered to go ahead as intended in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on the night of 1-2 May 2011.
Obama’s book will be published on Tuesday. Guardian US has seen a copy. Obama writes that his vice-president, who will follow him to the White House in January, immediately supported his decision to proceed with the Bin Laden raid.
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WNU Editor: This is old news. I am surprised that the former President wants to remind everyone this decision that Joe Biden made years ago. Former President Obama has also commented on the recent post-election debate .... 'It's a dangerous path': Obama says Trump 'never admits loss' as he condemns Republicans who 'know better but are humoring him' on voter fraud claims in his first interview since the election (Daily Mail).
