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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 ...
English: On May 1, 2011, the United States conducted an operation that resulted in the killing of Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden. President Barack Obama addressed the nation shortly thereafter to inform the American people—and the world—on the success of the operation. Other languages.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...