One of the helicopters used in the operation failed and was destroyed by the special forces before they left. The fortified compound was built on the edge of the hill town of Abbottabad, with no phone or internet connections. The Pentagon released satellite images dating back several years of the compound where Osama Bin Laden was discovered. They clearly show how it was extended over the years. The US operation to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden was months in the planning but took just minutes to complete.
In a daring raid miles km inside Pakistan, a team of US special forces flew from Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hiding place in the dead of night. They swooped down on the compound in stealth helicopters, swept through the buildings within the high walled enclosure and shot dead a total of five people including Bin Laden. Around 40 minutes later they left, taking with them Bin Laden's body and a hoard of computer data devices and other information containing intelligence about al-Qaeda and Bin Laden's activities.
They left behind the other dead, among whom were a woman and one of Bin Laden's sons. They also left a group of three women and 13 children - two girls and 11 boys - bound with plastic ties.
The US team was forced to abandon one of its helicopters after it was damaged in a hard landing at the compound site. It was mostly destroyed in an explosion set by the US forces as they departed. Publicly, the US authorities have given few details about the raid and some of these have changed since the news of Bin Laden's death was officially announced.
What follows has been pieced together from official US statements and off-the-record interviews, other news sources and BBC interviews with those living near the compound in Abbottabad, the quiet, leafy garrison town 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Just a handful of US military and senior officials around President Obama knew of the planned raid.
However, within seconds of the arrival of the US helicopters overhead in Abbottabad on Monday, their presence was being advertised on Twitter. Eleven minutes later Athar reported: "A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad. I hope it's not the start of something nasty. On the other side of the world President Obama and his closest advisers had gathered in the White House situation room to monitor progress of the assault.
A few miles away, at CIA headquarters, the spy agency's director Leon Panetta sat in a windowless seventh floor room, which had been turned into a command centre. From there he fed the president and his team details of the raid as it unfolded. The operation now under way was the culmination of weeks of detailed surveillance and planning involving some of the United States' most sophisticated technology. Planning for the raid started late last year.
US officials have spoken of how an intercept in late August of a phone call to a trusted courier of Bin Laden in Pakistan was a breakthrough that led to the raid. Controversially, they had learnt of his identity from interrogations of detainees in Guantanamo. Armed with the mobile phone number, the US was able to track him to the compound in Abbottabad. It was unusual. High walls prevented anyone from seeing in and privacy screens on the main building's balconies blocked all sight lines.
It had no phone or internet connection and all rubbish was burnt inside the high walls rather than being collected as usual. Access to the site was through a tall green metal security gate which led into a passageway with high walls either side, and another security gate leading to an inner compound at the other end. According to neighbours who spoke to the BBC , the occupants rarely went out and when they did so - in either a red Suzuki jeep or van - they passed through security doors that closed immediately afterwards.
US intelligence soon began an intensive period of surveillance. While satellites watched from the sky a CIA safe house was set up nearby. From the safe house, agents were able to observe the comings and goings from the compound in order to establish a "pattern of life" at the building. Some details of how they tried to obtain key information about the building have emerged. Moreover, Microsoft and CNN also have described the malware as most destructive and the worst virus ever found.
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As evidence they took several photos, some of which i have included here. Osama Bin Laden has been captured. God bless the USA!
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