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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.
978-0525953722. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden (2012) is a military memoir by a former member of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) [1][2] who participated in the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. The book was written by Matt Bissonnette under ...
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.
On May 2, 2011, United States President Barack Obama confirmed that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in his compound in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan. Bin Laden's death was welcomed by many as a positive and significant turning point in the fight against al-Qaeda and related groups.
For invasions by other polities, see Invasions of Afghanistan. United States invasion of Afghanistan. Part of the War in Afghanistan. Major American special forces operations in Afghan territory between October 2001 and March 2002. Date. 7 October 2001 – 17 December 2001 (2 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location. Afghanistan.
Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America ( ISBN 0-7615-1968-8) is a New York Times Bestseller by Yossef Bodansky, the former Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. The book provides a full account of the rise of Osama bin Laden and discusses Islamism.
The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. A ceasefire and armistice were declared on November 11, 1918. Before entering the war, the U.S. had remained neutral, though it had been an important supplier to the United Kingdom, France, and the other powers of the Allies of ...