Osama bin ladens death story
In , an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had.
On this day in , President Barack Obama announced to the nation that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in a raid of his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound.!
Osama bin Laden: Early Life
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958.
He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom. Young Osama had a privileged, cosseted upbringing. His siblings were educated in the West and went to work for his father’s company (by then an enormous conglomerate that distributed consumer goods like Volkswagen cars and Snapple beverages across the Middle East), but Osama bin Laden stayed close to home.
SEAL Team Six raided an al‑Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May and killed the world's most wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden.He went to school in Jiddah, married young and, like many Saudi men, joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.
Did you know? Bin Laden’s body was evacuated from the Abbottabad compound by helicopter and flown to an American aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean.
The corpse was buried at sea.
Osama bin Laden: The Pan-Islamist Idea
For bin Laden, Islam was more than just a religion: It shaped his political beliefs and influenced every decision