Symbol of Global Jihad Goes Down

CIA Operation Kills Osama bin Laden in Pakistan

A CIA-led operation has killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and recovered his body after a decade-long hunt for the militant leader who commanded the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. government officials said.
(Los Angeles Times)


Bin Laden Dead, U.S. Official Says -Helene Cooper

President Obama announced Sunday that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight during an operation inside Pakistan. A small team of U.S. operatives launched a "targeted assault" on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
(New York Times)


How the U.S. Tracked Down Bin Laden -Mimi Hall & Richard Wolf

Two years ago, senior U.S. intelligence officials figured out where the man they thought might be hiding Osama bin Laden was living. It was a $1 million complex, in an affluent neighborhood of mostly military retirees 35 miles north of Islamabad in Pakistan, found by tracking one of bin Laden's trusted couriers. On Friday, President Obama made the decision to send a small U.S. team in helicopters into the compound to go after bin Laden, the culmination of months of top-secret security meetings as operatives closed in on bin Laden overseas.

In August 2010 agents discovered the sprawling compound where bin Laden was hiding, eight times larger than any in the area, built at the end of a dirt road. It has 18-foot walls, two security gates, and no exterior windows.
(USA Today)

The Raid on Osama Bin Laden's Compound

In the firefight, in addition to bin Laden, three adult males were killed, including bin Laden's adult son and two couriers. One woman was killed...U.S. officials say, and two women were injured in the raid.

It will be hard for Pakistan to explain how bin Laden could have been living in a huge compound located in a densely populated suburb filled with retired military unnoticed.
(CBS News)
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NOTE: The day before bin Laden was killed was the 66th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's suicide [April 30, 1945].  Bin Laden was killed on Holocaust Rememberance Day, an official holiday commemorated in Israel and by Jews worldwide.