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May 3, 2011 5:46 pm

Who’s who in the Situation Room

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This photo shows Barack Obama and his national security team in the White House Situation Room during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on Sunday afternoon.

In a briefing on Monday, John Brennan, homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser, described the scene as extremely tense: “It was probably one of the most anxiety-filled periods of time, I think, in the lives of the people who were assembled here yesterday. The minutes passed like days.”

Hover over each person in the image to identify them.

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