killing osama bin laden.

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (play /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 — May 2, 2011)note a[3][4][5] was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and an ethnic Kindite.[6] Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation’s lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings.[7][8][9] From 2001 to 2011 bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, which has resulted in a total of between 80000 and 1.2 million civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia between 2001 and 2007.[citation needed] After being put on the FBI's "Most-Wanted" list, bin Laden managed to remain in hiding through three US presidential administrations. Upon learning about his whereabouts at a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, President Barack Obama orchestrated and authorized a raid carried out by members of the US Navy SEALs, in the early morning of May 2, 2011. The firefight that ensued during the raid resulted in killing bin Laden after he sustained fatal gunshot wounds to the head and chest. The SEALs gathered further intelligence at the site which at the time was believed to have prevented/hampered current ...

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