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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 ...
On Friday December 4, 1998, after dropping off the penultimate draft of her senior essay on the Islamic militant leader Osama bin Laden, Suzanne Jovin began preparations for a pizza-making party she had organized at the Trinity Lutheran Church on 292 Orange Street for the local chapter of Best Buddies, an international organization that brings together students and mentally disabled adults.
Osama bin Laden was raised as a devout Sunni Muslim. [13] Bin Laden's father ensured that he was regularly attending school. Bin Laden attended schools with some Western curricula and culture. No evidence has been found that he ever received full-time education in a religious madrassa. He was likely educated for some of his primary school years ...
Spouse. Osama bin Laden. . . (m. 1974; sep. 2001) . Children. At least 11, including Abdallah, Saad, Omar. Najwa Ghanem (Arabic: نجوى غانم; born c. 1960) [1] is a Syrian woman who was the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, being the daughter of his mother's brother. She is also known as Um Abdallah (mother of Abdallah).
Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship, died early Thursday morning.
Maya is a CIA analyst tasked with finding the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.In 2003, she is stationed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan.She and CIA officer Dan Fuller attend the black site interrogations of Ammar (), a detainee with suspected links to several of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks and who is subjected to approved enhanced interrogation techniques.
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.
On May 2, 2011, United States President Barack Obama confirmed that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in his compound in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan. Bin Laden's death was welcomed by many as a positive and significant turning point in the fight against al-Qaeda and related groups.