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Bin Laden Got Shot After Retreating Into Room

Also: CIA had spy house in Abbottabad

(Newser) - The Washington Post has new details on the Osama bin Laden operation, from anonymous US officials:
  • Last moments: Commandos first saw bin Laden in the doorway to his room. He was shot twice after retreating into the room, where US forces found an AK-47 and a pistol. His actions constitute
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Reuters Publishes Grisly Photos of Osama Raid

They show 3 victims, but not bin Laden

(Newser) - Reuters has released a series of photos it says were taken in the aftermath of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Among them are gruesome images of three dead men, though not of bin Laden. The news agency says it bought them from a Pakistani security official who...

Commando Dog Deserves Osama Credit, Too

Bomb-sniffing canine dropped in with special ops forces during raid

(Newser) - The elite special forces team that took down Osama bin Laden is getting lots of credit, but the Sun reminds us that a four-legged member of the team helped, too. One bomb-sniffing dog, probably a German shepherd or Belgian Malinois , took part in the raid. It likely dropped out of...

Osama's Million-Dollar Hideout? More Like $250K

Local real estate experts say it's not as posh as initial accounts suggested

(Newser) - Another aspect of Osama bin Laden's grand finale is getting a dose of reality. US officials initially described his hideout as a mansion valued at $1 million , but two property experts in Abbottabad tell the Guardian it's worth $250,000, max. "This is not a posh area,...

Behind bin Laden's Walls: Rabbits, Pepsi, Suspicion

Details emerge of life inside the compound

(Newser) - The 18-foot-high walls were topped with barbed wire and bright security lights. Two Pakistani men came out every day to do the shopping, often buying bulk orders of Pepsi, Coke, Nestle, and other major brands. The residents burned their garbage in order to avoid having it collected. These and other...

UCLA Students Came Close in 2009 Osama Prediction

Professor, class had the wrong city but the right idea

(Newser) - A UCLA geography professor and his class who tried to predict Osama bin Laden's whereabouts in 2009 don't get an A-plus, but easily a solid B. Professor Thomas Gillespie and crew determined that bin Laden would be within about 180 miles of Tora Bora and living in a...

Osama’s Pad Didn’t Follow His ‘Hiding Places’ Rules

For one, it appears to have had few escape routes

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad abode appears to have broken the basic rules of hiding laid out in an al-Qaeda training manual. The Smoking Gun looked over the “Military Studies in the Jihad Against Tyrants” text that was seized from another terrorist’s home in England, and found a...

Remember This Osama Hunter? He Wasn't That Far Off

Gary Faulkner was about 270 miles away on his one-man hunt

(Newser) - Gary Faulkner is happy he won't have to make a return trip to Pakistan to look for Osama bin Laden, the Greeley Tribune of Colorado reports. Faulkner, you'll recall, is the guy who flew to Pakistan on his own last year with the goal of finding and capturing...

Osama Raid Nets Data Mother Lode

Computers, thumb drives, disks, and more seized

(Newser) - The raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound may turn out to be an intelligence triumph as well as a military one: The Navy SEALs who took Osama down also took his computers with them, seizing drives, disks, PCs, thumb drives, and other electronic equipment. An official tells Politico...

Bullet Blew bin Laden’s Skull Apart

Al-Qaeda leader had lived in Abbottabad compound for 5 to 6 years

(Newser) - The scene is shaping up to be a gruesome one: As reported earlier, Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye, but a US official adds that the bullet blew away part of his skull, and that a second bullet hit him in the chest, reports CBS News . The...

A Prisoner, a Call, a Courier: How They Found bin Laden

Intel from detainees, tapped phones led to courier

(Newser) - It wasn’t long after 9/11 when a detainee in one of the CIA’s secret prisons first mentioned the name Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. That name—plus years of intelligence work—would eventually lead America to Osama bin Laden, the AP reports. The first break came in 2004, when an...

Sen. Levin: Pakistan Has Tough Questions to Answer

Senators wonder how much nation's intelligence services knew

(Newser) - Pakistan is going to have to answer some tough questions about whether members of its military and intelligence services knew where Osama bin Laden was, warns Sen. Carl Levin. The Democrat, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested that the security arms of the Pakistani government may have known...

Tech Geek in Abbottabad Live-Tweeted Attack

Social media, not mainstream media, was first on this huge story

(Newser) - Twitter has become an increasingly important method of breaking and delivering news, and yesterday it had its biggest moment yet. Osama bin Laden's death was first reported on the social media service, tweeted by both an in-the-know former political aide and an unwitting IT consultant. Keith Urbahn , once chief...

How We Took Down Osama

 Go Inside 
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May 2, 2011 4:55 AM CDT

Go Inside bin Laden's Compound

Fortified compound in Abbottabad identified as bin Laden's

(Newser) - In the dark of night, US helicopters ferrying Navy SEALs and other special forces flew to a secure, high-walled compound in Abbottabad, 30 miles north of Islamabad in Pakistan. Less than 40 minutes later, bin Laden and four others were dead in a raid, reports CNN in a chilling description...

Obama: bin Laden Is Dead, 'Justice Has Been Served'

President addresses the nation on death of al-Qaeda leader

(Newser) - President Obama tonight confirmed that Osama bin Laden is dead and gave new details about how that came to be: The president tasked Leon Panetta with capturing or killing bin Laden shortly after taking office, and "last August, after years of painstaking work, I was briefed on a possible...

Osama bin Laden Is Dead, a US Officials Says
 Osama bin Laden Is Dead 
May 1, 2011 9:53 PM CDT

Osama bin Laden Is Dead

He's killed by US forces in Pakistan

(Newser) - Osama bin Laden is dead, the New York Times reports. Few details yet, but the newspaper (and just about every other media outlet now) quotes a US official saying the al-Qaeda leader has been killed in a "targeted assault" by US forces. CNN says that it happened in Pakistan,...

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