disable its cutting edge technology. 30 minutes lair the s.e.a.l.s are gone before pakistani fighter jets can scramble to reach them. >> i have never been on an op that went that smoothly or heard of an op that went that smoothly. nobody was injured or killed and they achieved all of their objectives. >> the risks are unimaginable. everything could have gone wrong but the reward was that if it worked they would come out with a body, they'd come out with the intelligence on the ground that they gathered up, the computers, the dvds, the thumb drives, all the things that would have been destroyed in a bombing or missile attack and show the world. >> reporter: bin laden's body is flown to the uss karl vincent. following islamic tradition, within 12 hours the body is washed, wrapped in a white cloth and buried at sea. at 11:35 p.m. eastern time on sunday night, president obama speaks to the nation, delivering