HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Afghanistan
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Saudi Arabia
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Pakistan
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Iran
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 2, 2011, the United States military killed and buried Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader behind the 9/11 attacks. U.S. Special Operations troops took him out during a raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where he and some of his family were hiding out.
Detailed explanation-2: -American intelligence officials discovered the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden by tracking one of his couriers. Information was collected from Guantánamo Bay detainees, who gave intelligence officers the courier’s pseudonym as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and said that he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Detailed explanation-3: -After identifying his body, the military brought him aboard the USS Carl Vinson and buried him in the northern Arabian Sea the same day.
Detailed explanation-4: -U.S. Intelligence estimates that bin Laden lived in the compound for five or six years. Bin Laden’s wife confirmed to the Pakistani authorities that they had lived in the compound for five years.