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Death of Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al- Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2. PKT[1][2] (2. 0: 0. UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U. S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six).[3] The operation, code- named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA- led operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 1. Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)—also known as "Night Stalkers"—and operators from the CIA's Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units.[4][5] The operation ended a nearly 1.

Laden, following his role in the September 1. Watch Few Options Online Idigitaltimes. United States. The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan.[6] U. S. military officials said that after the raid U.

S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried him at sea within 2. Islamic tradition.[7] According to Carlotta Gall, a Pakistani official (to whom she later clarified that she did not speak, the information coming through a friend),[8] told her that a senior U. S. official had told him that the United States had direct evidence that Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, Lt.

Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, knew of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad, but ISI, Pasha and officials in Washington all denied this.[9]Al- Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.[1. Other Pakistani militant groups, including the Tehrik- i- Taliban Pakistan, vowed retaliation against the U. S. and against Pakistan for not preventing the operation.[1. The raid was supported by over 9. American public,[1. United Nations, NATO, the European Union and a large number of governments,[1.

Pakistani public.[1. Legal and ethical aspects of the killing, such as his not being taken alive despite being unarmed, were questioned by others, including Amnesty International.[1.

Also controversial was the decision not to release any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Laden's death to the public.[1. In the aftermath of the killing, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani formed a commission under Senior Justice Javed Iqbal to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack.[1.

The resulting Abbottabad Commission Report was leaked to Al Jazeera on July 8, 2. The search for bin Laden. Accounts of how bin Laden was located by U. S. intelligence differ.

The White House and CIA director John Brennan stated that the process began with a fragment of information unearthed in 2. This account states that by September 2. Abbottabad compound, where the U. S. began intensive multiplatform surveillance.

According to journalist Seymour Hersh and NBC News, however, the U. S. was tipped off about bin Laden's location by a Pakistani intelligence officer who offered details of where the Pakistani Intelligence Service held him in detention in exchange for a bounty. ISI walk- in places bin Laden in Abbottabad. In August 2. 01. 0, a former Pakistani intelligence officer approached the U. S. embassy station chief in Islamabad and offered to reveal bin Laden's location, in return for the $2. U. S. intelligence official.[2. This story was corroborated by two U.

S. intelligence officials speaking to NBC News, and had been previously reported by intelligence analyst Raelynn Hillhouse.[2. The Pakistani official informed U. S. intelligence that bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2. Pakistani intelligence and military centers ever since. The official passed polygraph tests, after which the U.

S. began local and satellite surveillance of bin Laden's Abbottabad residence.[2. According to the retired senior U. S. intelligence official speaking to Hersh, bin Laden was ill at this point, financially supported by some within Saudi Arabia, and kept by the ISI to better manage their complex relationship with Pakistani and Afghan Islamist groups.[2. According to the official, retired CIA officials emphasized the importance of bin Laden's courier to the press, because they were nervous over torture scrutiny and possible prosecution. In May 2. 01. 5 the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was aware that bin Laden was in Pakistan with the knowledge of Pakistani intelligence services.[2.

The BND informed the CIA that bin Laden was in Pakistan and Bild am Sonntag states that the CIA then found his "precise location" through a courier. Der Spiegel questioned the veracity of the report, produced in the midst of a scandal over BND and NSA collaboration.[2.

Identity of his courier. According to the earlier official version of his identification from a U. S. official, identification of al- Qaeda couriers was an early priority for interrogators at CIA black sites and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, because bin Laden was believed to communicate through such couriers while concealing his whereabouts from al- Qaeda foot soldiers and top commanders.[2. Bin Laden was known not to use phones after 1. U. S. had launched missile strikes against his bases in Afghanistan in August by tracking an associate's satellite phone.[2.

The U. S. official had stated that by 2. Qaeda courier with the kunya. Abu Ahmed al- Kuwaiti (sometimes referred to as Sheikh Abu Ahmed from Kuwait).[2. One of those claims came from Mohammed al- Qahtani, a detainee interrogated for 4. November 2. 3, 2. January 1. 1, 2. 00.

At some point during this period, al- Qahtani told interrogators about a man known as Abu Ahmed al- Kuwaiti who was part of the inner circle of al- Qaeda.[2. Later in 2. 00. 3, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged operational chief of al- Qaeda, stated that he was acquainted with al- Kuwaiti, but that the man was not active in al- Qaeda, according to a U. S. official.[2. 7]According to a U. S. official, in 2. Hassan Ghul revealed that bin Laden relied on a trusted courier known as al- Kuwaiti.[2. Ghul stated that al- Kuwaiti was close to bin Laden as well as Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Mohammed's successor Abu Faraj al- Libbi. Ghul revealed that al- Kuwaiti had not been seen in some time, which led U.

S. officials to suspect he was traveling with bin Laden. When confronted with Ghul's account, Mohammed maintained his original story.[2. Abu Faraj al- Libbi was captured in 2. Guantánamo in September 2.

He told CIA interrogators that bin Laden's courier was a man named Maulawi Abd al- Khaliq Jan and denied knowing al- Kuwaiti. Because both Mohammed and al- Libbi had minimized al- Kuwaiti's importance, officials speculated that he was part of bin Laden's inner circle.[2.

In 2. 00. 7, officials learned al- Kuwaiti's real name,[3. Watch Being Human Online IMDB. Pakistani officials in 2. Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, from Pakistan's Swat Valley. He and his brother Abrar and their families were living at bin Laden's compound, the officials said.[3.

Since the name Maulawi Abd al- Khaliq Jan appears in the JTF- GTMO detainee assessment for Abu Faraj al- Libbi released by Wiki. Leaks on April 2. U. S. assault on the Abbottabad compound was expedited as a precaution.[3. The CIA never found anyone named Maulawi Jan and concluded that the name was an invention of al- Libbi.[2. A 2. 01. 0 wiretap of another suspect picked up a conversation with al- Kuwaiti. CIA paramilitary operatives located al- Kuwaiti in August 2.

Abbottabad compound, which led them to speculate it was bin Laden's location.[2. The courier and a relative (who was either a brother or a cousin) were killed in the May 2, 2. Afterward, some locals identified the men as Pashtuns named Arshad and Tareq Khan.[3. Arshad Khan was carrying an old, noncomputerized Pakistani identification card, which identified him as from Khat Kuruna, a village near Charsadda in northwestern Pakistan.