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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
Aug 14, 2021 · Video shows that Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan was just 22 seconds away from the country's Military Academy, and that little is left of the compound now.
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] .
- 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.
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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.
May 24, 2018 · SEAL Team Six raided an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011 and killed the world’s most wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden. Get the facts and a timeline of the raid on...
Apr 6, 2022 · On May 2, 2011, SEAL Team Six descended upon a compound in Pakistan, blew down doors and engaged enemy combatants. The goal: kill or capture Osama bin Laden.
