Bin Laden raid years in the making, minutes in execution
It took years for the U.S. military to track Osama bin Laden down, finding him not in a cave in the inaccessible tribal regions of Pakistan, but in a sumptuous luxury compound built just six years ago in the same city that is home to Pakistan’s most prestigious military academy.
The raid that killed him lasted just 40 minutes.
U.S. officials briefing reporters here said the raid involved a helicopter assault on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by a small U.S. team.
Bin Laden resisted the U.S. team and was shot in the head, they said. Also killed were bin Laden’s most trusted courier and one of bin Laden’s sons, as well as a woman one of the men tried to use as a human shield, they said.