Agents who look Pakistani and speak Urdu move into an empty house overlooking the compound and start to watch everything that happens there. ibid.
They discover that al Kuwaiti and his brother live in the compound with their two families, and that they are great believers in privacy. ibid.
A third family living on the top floor even more private than the Kuwaitis. ibid.
The CIA lays its latest evidence before Obama and makes the case for an attack. ibid.
Obama calls for a final review of the intelligence ... Aware of the history of failed raids and false hopes only half of them say yes to the mission. ibid.
Obama and his staff will watch the most important Special Forces Operation in forty years in real time. ibid.
The Seals identify the dead as al Kuwaiti and his wife, and move on. ibid.
Support troops help the troops search the compound and grounds. In one of the rooms they discover what they are looking for: a huge cache of intelligence. ibid.
Identifying the man shot by the Seals is now everyone’s top priority. ibid.
Early the next morning DNA technicians confirm that the dead man is Osama bin Laden. ibid.
The last days of Osama bin Laden were spent in hiding. A once proud prince of Islamic Jihad became an old man watching his own flickering image on a cheap television set. Osama bin Laden: The Last Days, 2011
He escapes into a decade of hiding, coordinating attacks on London, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. ibid.
A national embarrassment that the Pakistanis would prefer to go away. ibid.
The US believed couriers used to distribute bin Laden’s communications would reveal his whereabouts. ibid.
Bin Laden and al Qaeda were so desperate for money they plotted to kidnap foreigners in return for hard cash. ibid.
The compound was unkempt. ibid.
On May 1st 2011 Osama bin Laden, the mastermind ... was targeted in a daring raid by special US forces. The Hunt for Bin Laden, ITV 2012
Bin Laden helps to fund the Jihad with his millions. ibid.
He makes an alliance with the Taliban. ibid.
President Clinton orders Operation Infinite Reach – the firing of scores of cruise missile at bin Laden’s training camps. ibid.
A new law will allow all agencies to share information. ibid.
The Taliban reject two ultimatums to hand over bin Laden. ibid.
Around 800 al Qaeda escaped into Pakistan overnight. ibid.
Bin Laden walks out of Tora Bora and into Pakistan. ibid.
Bin Laden has outlasted a succession of American presidents. ibid.
The most wanted man on Earth remains shut away in his room. ibid.
Osama bin Laden was buried at sea on May 2 2011. ibid.
The dramatic raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in May 2011 delivered far more than the world’s most wanted man – computers, hard drives, notebooks. Secrets of Bin Laden’s Lair, Discovery 2012
Where does al Qaeda stand now? ibid.
Ten hard drives, five computers, and more than a hundred storage devices. ibid.
There was another surprising discovery amongst the material – pornography. A large stash of it was found in the compound. ibid.
The courier they’d heard about eight years earlier in the interrogation led the CIA then the SEALS right to bin Laden’s door. ibid.
Al Qaeda makes its money through crime. ibid.
Another remarkable theory – bin Laden was actually turned in by his own wife. ibid.
They’re the team that carried out the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. They’re the elite of the elite. They’re the men of Seal Team Six. Secrets of Seal Team Six, Discovery 2011
It was dramatic headline news. And the details of the secret mission were as extraordinary as the news itself. ibid.
On May 1 2011 US Navy Seals Raided Osama bin Laden’s Compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Manhunt, caption, HBO 2013
‘Tonight: I can report to the American people and to the world: the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda.’ ibid. Barak Obama
Cindy Storer began tracking bin Laden for the CIA in 1995. ibid. caption
‘America won’t stop supporting the Jews, who are killing Muslims, until we attack them and raise the banner of Jihad.’ ibid. voice of bin Laden 1993
In the early 90s, bin Laden lived openly, denying all ties to terrorism. Al Qaeda was a secret organisation, unknown to the US government. ibid. caption
John McLaughlin oversaw the CIA analysts. Later he ran the entire CIA. ibid.
In 1995 the CIA created the bin Laden unit. Its codename was Alec Station. ibid.
The FBI was also investigating al Qaeda. In Yemen an FBI team was building a case against bin Laden. Six days after 9/11, they interrogated his former bodyguard. ibid.
He did not know they were tracking his courier. ibid.
For years Al Qaeda and its affiliates have defiled the great religion of peace and justice, and ruthlessly murdered men, women and children of all nationalities and faiths. Indeed, above all, they have killed Muslims. Barack Obama, public address
In the nearly eight years since 9/11 Al Qaeda and its extremist allies have moved across the border to the remote areas of the Pakistani frontier. This almost certainly includes al Qaeda’s leadership – Osama bin Laden. Barack Obama
Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. Barack Obama press conference 1st May 2011 11.35 p.m.
He was the world’s most wanted man. And the CIA operation to track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was one of America’s greatest intelligence coups. But do we know the whole story? This World: The Bin Laden Conspiracy, BBC 2015
Now a new and controversial account alleges Pakistan’s intelligence service was hiding Bin Laden for years. They just handed him over to the Americans. ibid.
Seymour Hersh says the whole US raid was staged. ibid.
He [bin Laden] and his family moved to a military garrison town. ibid.
There are competing narratives about what did or did not happen in May 2011 and before then in regards to the life or death of Osama bin Laden. The Corbett Report: When Did bin Laden Die? James Corbett online 2018
Not the first time that such a death had been announced but the ninth. ibid.
The Navy Seal team members who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden on May 2nd 2011 were reporting in real time to President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other officials in the sealed Situation Room. Following the operation, the New York Daily News commented, ‘Along with the unseen pictures of Osama bin Laden’s corpse and questions about what Pakistan knew, Intelligence Officials’ reasons for dubbing the Al Qaeda boss ‘Geronimo’ remain one of the biggest mysteries of the Black Ops mission.’ Exterminate All the Brutes s1e3: Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing ***** Sky Documentaries 2021
From the chair the President was sitting in – when this photo was taken from this very room – television cameras are inside the White House Situation Room for the very first time as we look back on the death of Osama bin Laden. Rock Centre, Inside the Situation Room, NBC News 2012
This was the longest forty minutes of my life. ibid.