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Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli (Urdu: وزیرستان حویلی, romanized: Wazīristān Havelī, lit. 'Waziristan Mansion'), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for Saudi militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there
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- Bin Laden's Carefully Guarded Emails. Osama bin Laden. Despite having no Internet access or phone lines at the compound—"those would be too great a risk to his personal safety,” says Bill Roggio of Long War Journal—Osama bin Laden was a prolific writer and communicator from his self-imposed isolation.
- Bin Laden's Diary. The SEAL team also recovered his 228-page journal, which records thoughts he expressed to family members between February and April of 2011.
- His Son Hamza's Wedding Video. The raid also unearthed a family video from bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden’s wedding in Iran. “The only picture we had of Hamza prior to the video’s release was of him as a child.
- Video Games. A series of video games downloaded and saved onto compound computers suggest Osama bin Laden or someone else who lived on the compound was an avid video game enthusiast.
- Bin Laden Chose to Hide in Plain Sight. After 9/11, the bin Laden family spent several years on the run, moving from one sympathetic Pakistani locale to another—including the frontier city of Peshawar and the rural Swat Valley, among others.
- He Had the Compound Custom-Built. “Arshad” hired a local architectural firm to draw up plans for a large, two-story building on the premises—with very specific criteria.
- It's Unclear How Many People Lived There. The compound came to be known to locals as the Waziristan Haveli, or Waziristan House/Mansion, due to the Waziri accents of “Arshad” and his brother, Ibrahim.
- They Lived in Extreme Isolation and Self-Sufficiency. Life in the Abbottabad hideout was designed to be as self-contained and self-sufficient as possible, to minimize contact with the outside world.
May 2, 2011 · Ahead of a Monday morning briefing about the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the U.S. government released some graphics that shed new light on the compound where the most-wanted...
Bin Laden's compound. Main article: Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. The CIA used surveillance photos and intelligence reports to determine the identities of the inhabitants of the Abbottabad compound to which the courier was traveling.
Browse 793 bin laden compound photos and images available, or search for osama bin laden compound to find more great photos and pictures. An Afghan National Army soldier searches a compound during joint U.S. Special Forces and ANA village searches March 29, 2004 in southeast...
In an effort to further enhance public understanding of al-Qa'ida, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on 1 November 2017 released additional materials recovered in the 2 May 2011 raid on Usama Bin Ladin's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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