Killing of Osama bin Laden
On May 2, 2011, U.S. Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in a raid approved by President Barack Obama and launched from Afghanistan. Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda founder who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, had evaded capture since escaping to Pakistan after the Battle of Tora Bora in 2001, and was finally located through a CIA-led effort tracking a courier. The 40-minute mission involved two dozen SEALs in Black Hawk helicopters, resulted in the deaths of bin Laden and four others, and included a helicopter crash with no U.S. casualties; his body was later buried at sea. The killing was supported by over 90% of Americans and welcomed by the UN, EU, and NATO, but was condemned by two-thirds of Pakistanis and questioned by Amnesty International over the failure to capture the unarmed bin Laden alive. A subsequent Pakistani commission, the Abbottabad Commission Report, found a "collective failure" of the country's military and intelligence agencies, and the report was later leaked to Al Jazeera in 2013. Artifacts from the raid are now displayed at the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Obama Presidential Center.
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