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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 ...
The Osama bin Laden video released on December 13, 2001. On November 10, 2001, U.S. military forces in Jalalabad found a video tape of bin Laden. [3]On December 13, 2001, the United States State Department released a video tape apparently showing bin Laden speaking with Khaled al-Harbi and other associates, somewhere in Afghanistan, before the U.S. invasion had driven the Taliban regime from ...
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.
RELATED: 2011 Osama bin Laden death Bin Laden’s personal journal was also released along with 18,000 other documents, 79,000 audio bits and image clips as well as 10,000 video files, the CIA said.
A still of the 2004 Osama bin Laden video. On October 29, 2004, at 21:00 UTC, Al Jazeera broadcast excerpts allegedly from a videotape of Osama bin Laden addressing the people of the United States; in this video, he accepts responsibility for the September 11 attacks, condemns the Bush government's response to those attacks, and presents those attacks as part of a campaign of revenge and ...
It's been five years since U.S. Navy Seals killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. Since then, more and more details have emerged about bin Laden's last moments ...
It’s been more than 22 years since 9/11 and more than 12 since Osama bin Laden’s death. But the al-Qaida leader’s open “Letter to America” attempting to justify the Sept. 11, 2001 ...
Osama bin Laden[a] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he participated in the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union and supported the activities of the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars.