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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.
v. 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 ...
Manhunt for Osama bin Laden. Coordinates: 18°N 66°E. Osama bin Laden, the founder and former leader of al-Qaeda, went into hiding following the start of the War in Afghanistan in order to avoid capture by the United States and/or its allies for his role in the September 11 attacks, and having been on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list ...
Abbottabad ( / ˈæbətəbɑːd /; Urdu, Hindko: ایبٹ آباد, romanized: aibṭabād, pronounced [ɛːbʈəˈbaːd̪]) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth largest in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population.
978-0-307-95588-3. Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad is Peter Bergen 's fourth book on the subject of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. It was originally published in 2012 and became a New York Times bestseller later that year. [1] It would then become the basis for an HBO documentary, Manhunt: The Search for Bin ...
RELATED: 2011 Osama bin Laden death Bin Laden’s personal journal was also released along with 18,000 other documents, 79,000 audio bits and image clips as well as 10,000 video files, the CIA said.
NGA will continue to use the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform (as it did for Katrina relief) to provide geospatial support for humanitarian, peacekeeping, and national-security efforts. Virtual Earth is a set of online mapping and search services that deliver imagery through an API. Google and GeoEye: In 2008 NGA partnered with Google and GeoEye.
Najim Jihad (نجم الجهاد; also Nazim Jihad, Abu Mahajin, Najim al Jihad complex) is the name given to a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden and approximately 250 followers. With internal plumbing, the compound was formally located in Hadda.