This story is featured nowhere obvious, it seems, on the US MSM. It is, however, prominent on Al-Jazeera, of all places, where the story in recounted in detail and it’s one of the ‘most viewed’ stories today:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/201234124458874684.html
Osama liked watching pictures of the 9/11 New York attacks too. Maybe it’s a hot news story because the folks watching are feeling glee... Cultures where men are seen in streets jumping up and down, screaming, carrying coffins etc are not like us - and ‘thank God’, we’re not like them.