BLOODY END: Blood stains a carpet in Laden’s death compound. (ABC NEWS)

HIDEOUT: A Pakistani soldier stands watch yesterday on the roof of the Abbottabad compound. (AP)

A visibly tense President Obama huddled with Vice President Joe Biden (left), Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and top advisers in the White House Situation Room throughout Sunday afternoon to monitor “Geronimo,” the daring operation targeting Osama bin Laden.

Among others watching a real-time update from Pakistan were (standing, from left) Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and (seated, right) Defense Secretary Robert Gates.