(INFO BELOW VIA ABC NEWS)
It began with a tip to the CIA eight months ago about a possible Bin Laden hiding place, and led Sunday to the bold military operation that will go down in U.S. history.
Osama Bin Laden wasn’t hiding in a cave, but in a Pakistani city of 90,000 called Abbottabad, just north of the Pakistani capital.
Tracking one of the Al Qaeda leader’s trusted couriers, the CIA discovered an acre-large, million-dollar compound with 12 to 18-foot walls that had no telephones but was eight times the size of other homes in the area and just off a major highway.
President Obama gave the order for a small team of U.S. Navy SEALs in Afghanistan to go in Sunday night Pakistan time, even though bin Laden had never once actually been seen in the compound.
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“I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action,” said President Obama in a nationally televised address Sunday night, “and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.”
Said President Obama, “After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.”
None of the Americans were injured in the raid.
The U.S. team was on the ground for only 40 minutes, most of the time spent scrubbing the compound for information about al Qaeda and its future plans.
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Detail of the U.S. raid.
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Detail of the U.S. raid.
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Detail of the U.S. raid.
