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  1. Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli ( Urdu: وزیرستان حویلی, romanized : Wazīristān Havelī, lit. ' Waziristan Mansion'), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for Saudi militant Islamist Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by U.S. forces on 2 May 2011.

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  2. t. e. On May 2, [a] 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). [1] The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA -led mission ...

    • Operation Neptune Spear
    • May 2, 2011; 12 years ago
    • Bin Laden Chose to Hide in Plain Sight. After 9/11, the bin Laden family spent several years on the run, moving from one sympathetic Pakistani locale to another—including the frontier city of Peshawar and the rural Swat Valley, among others.
    • He Had the Compound Custom-Built. “Arshad” hired a local architectural firm to draw up plans for a large, two-story building on the premises—with very specific criteria.
    • It's Unclear How Many People Lived There. The compound came to be known to locals as the Waziristan Haveli, or Waziristan House/Mansion, due to the Waziri accents of “Arshad” and his brother, Ibrahim.
    • They Lived in Extreme Isolation and Self-Sufficiency. Life in the Abbottabad hideout was designed to be as self-contained and self-sufficient as possible, to minimize contact with the outside world.
  3. May 24, 2018 · SEAL Team Six raided an al-Qaeda compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011 and killed the world’s most wanted terrorist: Osama bin Laden. Get the facts and a timeline of the raid on HISTORY.com.

    • Julie Marks
    • 3 min
  4. Aug 4, 2021 · Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.

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  6. Sep 10, 2012 · Helicopter-borne US Navy Seals fly from Afghanistan to Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, arriving at around 0030 Monday (0930GMT Sunday). 2.

  7. About the Final Chapter in the Hunt for Bin Ladin. Abbottabad, Pakistan–In the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, a US military raid on an al-Qa’ida compound killed Usama Bin Ladin, America’s most wanted terrorist. The mission’s success was the culmination of many years of complex, thorough, and highly advanced intelligence operations ...

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