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Sep 14, 2019 · On May 2, 2011, the Navy SEAL team raided Abbottabad, killing Osama bin Laden and his son Khalid, as well as others. Saber and other wives living in the house were imprisoned. Hamza again ...
Aug 1, 2011 · And its plan was that it was going to land in the northeast corner of the compound, it was going to drop four SEALs, the translator, and the dog. Then that helicopter was going to lift...
Jul 31, 2019 · WASHINGTON — The United States has obtained intelligence that the son and potential successor of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, is dead, according to three U.S. officials....
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Sep 24, 2012 · Owen at this point was right behind him, number two, going up to the third floor. The SEALs had been told they could expect one of Osama bin Laden's sons.
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- Bin Laden Chose to Hide in Plain Sight
- He Had The Compound Custom-Built
- It's Unclear How Many People Lived There
- They Lived in Extreme Isolation and Self-Sufficiency
- Their Lives Were Austere, with Western Touches
- Bin Laden Kept Confined to A Small Space
- They Used Tricks to Evade Local Authorities
- Bin Laden's Couriers Wanted Out
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. When his supporters decided it was time for the family to settle, they chose Abbottabad, which bin Laden had visited and liked. In 2004, his trusted...
“Arshad” hired a local architectural firm to draw up plans for a large, two-story building on the premises—with very specific criteria. On the ground floor, the new villa was designed with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as a kitchen; the second floor had another four bedrooms and four bathrooms. A third floor was added later, write Levy...
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. Both men—al Qaeda stalwarts who would serve as bin Laden’s primary couriers, caretakers, aides and buffers to the outside world, moved in first, together with their families. By the end of 20...
Life in the Abbottabad hideout was designed to be as self-contained and self-sufficient as possible, to minimize contact with the outside world. The compound lacked telephone or Internet service—too easy to track—but did have satellite dishes allowing residents to watch the old TVs later found there. The residents burned their garbage rather than p...
The compound’s inhabitants lived frugally, going without air conditioning in the hot summers and sleeping on foam mattresses. Bin Laden’s wardrobe included three Pakistani-style outfits for summer and another three for winter, and a single sweater. But when the al-Kuwaiti brothers headed to the local bazaars, they would stock up not just on naan br...
Two of the rooms on the upper floors became bin Laden’s media center. On the back of a door, he hung the thobe (an Arab man’s robe) he donned when filming videos to be distributed to followers. A snub-nosed Kalashnikov, a memento from his days fighting Russian invaders in Afghanistan, rested on a shelf above the door. Yellow flowered curtains scree...
The al-Kuwaiti brothers disguised how many people lived in the compound by ensuring that no fewer than four separate electric meters were installed. Still, a Pakistani board of inquiry, whose report was later obtained by Al Jazeera, concluded that bin Laden “was extremely fortunate to not run into anyone committed to doing his job honestly, or ther...
Even as the Americans prepared to launch their attack on the compound, relationships were breaking down inside its walls. Exhausted by meeting the needs of a fluctuating but steadily expanding number of confined bin Laden family members and those of their own growing families, the al-Kuwaiti brothers gave the al Qaeda chief an ultimatum. They would...
May 5, 2011 · May 5, 2011 / 10:45 AM EDT / CBS/AP. WASHINGTON - So much could have gone wrong as SEAL Team Six swept over Pakistan's dark landscape, dropped down ropes into a compound lined by wall after wall ...
Nov 6, 2014 · People walk past Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed by U.S. Special Forces on May 2, 2011, the day after the raid. ... The second SEAL shoots bin Laden in the ...
