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e. On May 2, [a] 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). [1] The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA -led mission ...
May 2, 2011 · Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden East Room. 11:35 P.M. EDT. THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
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May 15, 2024 · Osama bin Laden (born 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—died May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan) was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the ...
The US operation to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden was months in the planning but took just minutes to complete. In a daring raid 120 miles (192km) inside Pakistan, a team of US special forces ...
May 2, 2011 · A damaged U.S. helicopter near the compound where Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed. An elite team of Navy SEALs blew up the helicopter after it encountered mechanical difficulties during ...
Sep 8, 2021 · Twenty years ago this weekend, airplanes struck the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Ten years ago, U.S. forces found bin Laden hiding here in Pakistan. The U.S ...
They killed Osama bin Laden in his third-floor bedroom, where he was found with at least one weapon nearby. Camcorder recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad Courtesy of the FBI Experience, FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
