Osam

Capturing Osama Bin Laden

By shania price

  • 9/11 Attack

    In the worst ter­ror­ist at­tack ever against the United States, hi­jack­ers struck at the pree­m­in­ent sym­bols of the na­tion’s wealth and might Tues­day, fly­ing air­liners in­to the World Trade Cen­ter and the Pentagon and killing or in­jur­ing thou­sands of people...

  • Osama Takes Responsibility For The Attack

    On a video later ob­tained by U.S. au­thor­it­ies, Bin Laden laughs when re­call­ing the carnage of Sept. 11 ..

  • Plans Are made to kill osama

    President . Obama begins a series of National Security Council meetings to develop options for capturing or killing Bin Laden.

  • Osama Is Found

    American intelligence locates the brothers’ residence, a compound about 35 miles north of Islamabad in the city of Abbottabad.

  • Seal Team Six Is Sent To Kill Osama Bin Laden

    They arrive outside the compound in two Black Hawk helicopters.
    - The operation takes 40 minutes total.
    - US Special Forces must breach the outer walls of the compound before fighting their way through the ground floor of the three-story building where bin Laden lived.
    • In the last 5-10 minutes of the firefight, bin Laden is killed by a gunshot wound to the head, above the left eye.
    • Three men, including a son of binladen..