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t. 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 ...
- Operation Neptune Spear
- May 2, 2011; 12 years ago
May 2, 2011 · Soon after the first news reports that the U.S. military had killed the al Qaida mastermind who claimed credit for the Sept. 11 deaths of nearly 3,000 individuals, a crowd that formed at the White ...
May 2, 2024 · After a brief firefight which killed bin Laden’s courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti and his wife, the commandos entered the main building, where they killed al-Kuwaiti’s brother, and bin-Laden’s son Khalid as he lunged towards them. Finally, as they reached the third floor of the building, the SEALs found and shot dead Osama bin Laden.
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Aug 3, 2021 · BBC News. 3 August 2021. Getty Images. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 suicide attackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. The ...
Jul 22, 2008 · July 22, 2008, 10:55 AM PDT / Source: msnbc.com news services. Osama bin Laden's driver overheard the al-Qaida leader saying he was happy about the death toll in the September 11 attacks and ...
- NBC Universal
The 9/11 Memorial Museum collection is home to several artifacts related to Operation Neptune Spear that represent this important moment in our nation’s history. Intended for wear under body armor, this camouflage shirt was worn by one of the U.S. Navy Seal Team Six members present when Osama bin Laden was killed during the nighttime raid of ...
May 2, 2011 · The news that the U.S. military had killed Osama bin Laden was bittersweet for survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that he plotted. Posted 2011-05-02T22:07:56+00:00 - Updated 2011 ...
