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Learn about the 2011 U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Find out the details of the operation, the aftermath, the controversy and the legacy of the mission.
SEAL Team Six raided an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011 and killed the world’s most wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden. Get the facts and a timeline of the raid on...
According to this account, Bin Laden was killed as soon as he stuck his head out of his bedroom. He was still alive although badly injured when the Seal team entered the room where they shot...
Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 2 May 2011, [244] [245] shortly after 1:00 AM local time (4:00 PM Eastern Time on 1 May 2011) [b] [246] [247] by a U.S. military special operations unit.
Learn how and when the Al Qaeda leader was shot dead by U.S. Navy SEALs in a raid on his compound in Pakistan in 2011. Find out the background, the evidence and the aftermath of the operation...
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United...
Read the full remarks of President Obama on May 2, 2011, announcing that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda. Learn how the operation was carried out, what it meant for the war against terrorism, and how it was received by the world.
Bin Laden, 54, approved the 9/11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died. He evaded the forces of the US and its allies for almost a decade, despite a $25m (£15m) bounty on his head.
After nearly a decade of hunting Osama bin Laden, a breakthrough came in August of 2010 when Bin Laden’s most trusted courier was located and identified. What followed was eight months of painstaking intelligence work, culminating in a helicopter assault in Abbottabad, Pakistan by American military and intelligence operatives that ended in ...
Less than 40 minutes later -- early Monday morning in Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden was dead, along with four others inside the complex, and the U.S. forces departed with the slain al Qaeda...