Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, is killed by U.S. forces during a raid on his compound hideout in Pakistan. The notorious, 54-year-old leader of Al Qaeda, the terrorist network of Islamic extremists, had been the target of a nearly decade-long international manhunt.
The raid began around 1 a.m. local time (4 p.m. EST on May 1, 2011 in the United States), when 23 U.S. Navy SEALs in two Black Hawk helicopters descended on the compound in Abbottabad, a tourist and military center north of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. One of the helicopters crash-landed into the compound but no one aboard was hurt.
During the raid, which lasted approximately 40 minutes, five people, including bin Laden and one of his adult sons, were killed by U.S. gunfire. No Americans were injured in the assault. Afterward, bin Laden’s body was flown by helicopter to Afghanistan for official identification, then buried at an undisclosed location in the Arabian Sea less than 24 hours after his death, in accordance with Islamic practice.
Just after 11:30 p.m. EST on May 1 (Pakistan’s time zone is 9 hours ahead of Washington, D.C.), President Barack Obama, who monitored the raid in real time via footage shot by a drone flying high above Abbottabad, made a televised address from the White House, announcing bin Laden’s death. “Justice has been done,” the president said. After hearing the news, cheering crowds gathered outside the White House and in New York City’s Times Square and the Ground Zero site.
Based on computer files and other evidence the SEALs collected during the raid, it was later determined that bin Laden was making plans to assassinate President Obama and carry out a series of additional attacks against America, including one on the anniversary of September 11, the largest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil, which left nearly 3,000 people dead. Shortly after the 2001 attack, President George W. Bush declared bin Laden, who was born into a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia in 1957 and used his multi-million-dollar inheritance to help establish Al Qaeda and fund its activities, would be captured dead or alive. In December of that year, American-backed forces came close to capturing bin Laden in a cave complex in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora region; however, he escaped and would continue to elude U.S. authorities for years.
A break in the hunt for bin Laden came in August 2010, when C.I.A. analysts tracked the terrorist leader’s courier to the Abbottabad compound, located behind tall security walls in a residential neighborhood. (U.S. intelligence officials spent the ensuing months keeping the compound under surveillance; however, they were never certain bin Laden was hiding there until the raid took place.)
The U.S. media had long reported bin Laden was believed to be hiding in the remote tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border, so many Americans were surprised to learn the world’s most famous fugitive had likely spent the last five years of his life in a well-populated area less than a mile from an elite Pakistani military academy. After the raid, which the United States reportedly carried out without informing the Pakistani government in advance, some American officials suspected Pakistani authorities of helping to shelter bin Laden in Abbottabad, although there was no concrete evidence to confirm this.
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Another ridiculous fairy tale brought to you by the government and its media.
Bin Laden died at Tora Bora shortly after the beginning of the first Gulf War. The U.S. operation in 2011 was fake.
Or he died in Pakistan (likely of kidney failure) as local news papers reported….but back in 2001.
He actually died of renal failure when the machine he was using in the mountains could not be repaired or replaced in time. Just another of the big lies put out.
Not much ever seemed right about the whole thing.
The normally top secret ops team goes on a PR blitz with Rob O’Neill on every tv show that will have him, video released of raid and burial and then a chopper that members are in crashes.
And then it just goes away.
History is written and we move on.
Buried at sea……………….
And supposedly divers were looking for the corpse as “proof”. smh
Don’t forget this:
“Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed former Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Saturday. ”
How convenient.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/helicopter-crash-in-afghanistan-reportedly-kills-members-of-seal-team-6
Where’s the proof? No body or any other evidence whatsoever that he was killed. It was a lie just like the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Saddam had tons of WMD’s stockpiled.
The proof is ALWAYS THE SAME. The goobermint said it was true.
That dude had been on ice since December of 2001 when he got zapped by a BUFF in Tora Bora.
This shit is so deep you need wings to stay above it now.
ZFG,out.
We killed him more than a few times. Which one are they talking about?
Fake OBL # 17…the younger guy with the extra scraggly beard.
Funniest story of the morning. History.com is nothing more than a mouthpiece for government lies….just like all government-approved history text books.
This story is like far too many:
Dog shit wrapped in cat shit and sprinkled with bird shit.
The MSM of today: “the most trusted name in make-believe in news”.
Here’s why I believe this was all fabrication.
When I lived in California back in the early 1990s I had a girlfriend who came from a very politically connected family from the Maryland / Virginia DC area. We parted ways and soon afterwards I went on my excellent adventure overseas, and when I returned and contacted my old friends who also knew her before I did they informed me that she had married the son of a certain former WH Chief of Staff and Director of the CIA.
So then some time passes and OBL is supposedly killed. I think to myself this is bullshit since he died of renal failure in a Pakistan hospital in December 2001. I immediately think to myself, “OK – if I was the former head of the CIA who resigned just before OBL was taken out the first part of my planning would be to scrub the internet presence of my family – soft targets like daughter in law, son, etc.” Right? Guess what – no such thing. From an internet search 3 days after the alleged OBL hit I find both the former CIA director’s son and daughter in law’s pictures, work addresses, even the address of where they live from a Zillow search. I even found the home address of the CIA guy. Either this CIA guy didn’t care much about his family or he had no need to scrub his family’s presence off the internet as there was no threat because there was no OBL.
It’s all bullshit people – it’s all just the power of nightmares.
The world record holder for being on dialysis! Osama Bin Laden! He also got younger and younger with each new video. Who knew dialysis could make you 20 years younger and healthier?
He also had obviously solved the issues of non-stop electricity to power his dialysis equipment and supplies deep down in caves in Tora Bora. Wow, if only EV cars had that kind of technology.
I was a very healthy man till kidney failure hit from PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease , your born with it “SHIT”!
Transplant is the only decent option to keep some reasonable quality of life .
I survived 3 years plus on dialysis and fortunately received a transplant .
When I discovered that Bin Laden was cruising about in the mountains of Afghanistan fighting full renal failure I knew then either the donkey he was riding placed a gold horseshoe up his ass or the storyline our government cooked up was BULL SHIT !
The sanitary conditions needed and dietary restrictions needed to maintain yourself on dialysis a daily regiment and you don’t last long without modern sanitary services .
Reality Sucks especially for the Obama deceptions but never mind reality , nothing to see here !
And Don’t forget, Jeffrey Edward Epstein is dead, somehow.😂
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Wasn’t he a pilot for one of the aircraft that hit the towers bailing out at the last second?
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I want to know how many guys it took to carry that dialysis machine up and down those mountainous rocky trails in order to give osama his twice weekly blood cleaning. And then…..where the fuck did it get plugged in. Did those caves have whole-cave wiring? He was dead yrs b4.