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v. 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 ...
Map showing the US operation from its bases in Afghanistan to Pakistan that killed Bin Laden, and the subsequent burial of his body at sea. Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 2 May 2011, [244] [245] shortly after 1:00 AM local time (4:00 PM Eastern Time on 1 May 2011) [b] [246] [247] by a U.S. military special operations unit.
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 by U.S. forces on 2 May 2011.
It's been five years since U.S. Navy Seals killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. ... members of Seal Team Six killed the terrorist group leader around 1 a.m. local time ...
Osama bin Laden was killed after being shot in the head and chest, [15] [16] [17] during Operation Neptune Spear, [18] with Geronimo as the code word for bin Laden's capture or death. [19] The operation was a 40-minute raid by members of the United States special operations forces and Navy SEALs on his safe house [ 20 ] in Bilal Town ...
Apache war leader Geronimo (1829–1909), the namesake of the code name used in the Bin Laden raid. The code name Geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden used the code name "Geronimo" to refer to either the overall operation, to fugitive bin Laden himself or to the act of killing or capturing bin Laden.
The former Navy SEAL credited with firing the bullet that killed al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is going after the Texas hotel where he allegedly attacked a security guard last summer, claiming ...
In the Philippines: 328 + [8] In Somalia: 260 to 365 killed[9][10] Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism. On 7 October 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks, President ...