Geronimo – Bin Laden is Dead! That’s the code name special operation

You may have now heard that “GERONIMO” was the code word for this special ops to capture/kill Bin Laden.
It is also the top trending word search on Google.

How did the name come about? Was there some other logic to why the name was chosen?

Geronimo was a well known Native American.

Here’s more info and the trending page on google.