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May 6, 2011| 2 Iyar 5771
Vol. 7, Iss. 18
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OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED BY NAVY SEALS WORLD’S MOST WANTED TERRORIST LIQUIDATED IN DARING RAID BY U.S. FORCES
The years-long search for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has ended with his death in a sophisticated U.S. airborne assault on the Pakistani compound where he had been hiding. .S. President Barack Obama announced bin Laden's death in televised remarks at the White House late Sunday. At a White House briefing on Monday, the Obama administration's counter-terror chief, John Brennan, released details of the overnight operation, which was carried out by an elite U.S. military unit. Several Navy SEALs slid down ropes from helicopters into the compound, located 60 km north of Islamabad, and shot bin Laden in the head when he fired on them. Brennan said there had been no plans to take bin Laden alive. He called the 40 minutes that it took to complete the operation the “most anxietyfilled periods of time” for administration officials, including Mr. Obama, who was monitoring the events live from the White House Situation Room. “Minutes,” he said, “passed like days.” No American lives were lost in the operation. The Pakistan government was not informed of the mission until the helicopters were out of Pakistani air space, for fear they might be intercepted. Brennan suggested that bin Laden had benefited from some sort of support system in Pakistan because his compound was in Abbottabad, a military garrison town some 60 kilometers from Islamabad. There had been persistent false reports that bin Laden had sought refuge in Pakistan's lawless western border region. U.S. military officials said bin Laden was buried at sea after he was given traditional Muslim funeral rites, with his body washed and placed in a white sheet. The officials said DNA testing showed nearly 100 percent certainty that the dead man was the al-Qaida leader. Brennan revealed that President Obama, on word that the mission was successfully accomplished, said, “We got him.” The death of Osama bin Laden comes just five months before the 10th anniversary of the hijacked airliner attacks carried out by members of al-Qaida on the United States.
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