Ten years after the worst ever terrorist attack carried out in New York that killed close to three thousand innocent US civilians, terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden-the mastermind of the ghastly attack was killed by a special force of the US Army in Abottabad of Pakistan, May 1, 2011.
Some sixty Kilometers from Pakistani Capital of Islamabad, Osama-Chief of the terrorist organization Al Qaida, was suspected to have been living in a fortified multi-million dollar mansion since five years period.
“Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan,” a beaming US President Barrack Hussain Obama said in his late-night statement on Sunday while formally announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden.
President Obama said “A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.”
The military operation lasted for just 40 minutes.
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