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May 5, 2011 · Dunlap, David W. "Fake bin Laden Death Photos Spread on Web and Fool Some Newspapers." The New York Times. 5 May 2011 (p. A11). Hill, Amelia. "Osama bin Laden Corpse Photo Is Fake." The Guardian ...
Jan 11, 2013 · Zero Dark Thirty: Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Kathryn Bigelow
- 2013-01-11
- Us Officials Feared His Grave Would Become A Shrine
- Bin Laden’s Body Was Cleaned, Wrapped and Buried in A Small Funeral
- President Obama Decided Not to Release Photos
When U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, who was 54, the U.S. government’s explanations for why it didn’t bury him in the ground were a little inconsistent. News articles quoted American officials both on and off the record who said that the U.S. didn’t want him to have a physical grave because it might become a shrine, but also because an unnamed ...
At the White House press briefing on Osama bin Laden’s killing and burial, John Brennan—then the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism—said U.S. officials had “consulted the appropriate specialists and experts” so that “the burial of bin Laden’s remains was done in strict conformance with Islamist precepts and practi...
When the U.S. announced bin Laden’s death, there was a question of whether it should release photos of bin Laden’s body—which officials claimed to have—in order to counter conspiracy theories that bin Laden was still alive. In an interview with 60 Minutes on CBS, President Barack Obamaexplained why he wasn’t releasing them. “It’s important for us t...
- Becky Little
Jan 2, 2013 · Osama bin Laden is dead, which everybody knows, and the principal facts leading up to that are also well-known. The decision to market "Zero Dark Thirty" as a thriller therefore takes a certain amount of courage, even given the fascination with this most zero and dark of deaths. (The title is spy-speak for "half past midnight," the time of bin Laden's death.)
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 ...
Jun 17, 2015 · Events on the night of the raid to kill Bin Laden still raise questions. He was shot dead within 12 minutes of the first Seals - members of the US Navy's special operations force - landing. But ...
Oct 15, 2015 · But bin Laden’s death had an even greater effect on the American psyche. Symbolically, it brought a badly wanted moment of moral clarity, of unambiguous American valor, to a murky war defined by ...
