One of Osama bin Laden’s wives stood between him and United States (US) Navy SEALs as the world’s most wanted terrorist was gunned down in an airborne (–foul word(s) removed–)ault on the al-Qaeda leader’s safehouse deep in Pakistan.
He was holed up less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from Pakistan’s military academy and not far from the capital of Islamabad.
On the life details comes out on Monday on the dramatic death of al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden after the near midnight announcement of the US President Barack Obama that the al-Qaeda leader had been killed.
The 10-year hunt for the notorious son of a Saudi Arabian construction magnate has come to an end in the compound near Islamabad while the al-Qaeda leader did not know until one of four US Special Operations helicopters that had ferried in the American force deep inside Pakistan.
Reportedly, there was a craft damaged on landing and blown up before the return journey to Afghanistan.
US president Barac Obama said the terrorist mastermind’s death was “a good day for America.”
Before Bin Laden’s body buried at sea from the deck of the USS Carl in the North Arabian Sea the DNA testing was administered to confirm the man killed was indeed bin Laden, said by the US administration.
Confirmation by a woman believed to be one of onsite bin Laden’s wives, the matching like of the height of Bin Laden and the statement of the photo analysis by the CIA helped to confirm the identification of the body was of Bin Laden.
Officials of the White House are deciding the merits and appropriateness of releasing a photo of Bin Laden’s body. He was shot above his left eye, blowing away part of his skull.
President Obama said, “The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden.”
Besides, security officials in the US and around the globe warned against retaliatory al-Qaeda attacks, added the President.
It took 15-years after the al-Qaeda leader declared war on the US, until ended his death.
Bin Laden together with the Al-Qaeda terrorists group were blamed for the 1998 bombings of two US emb(–foul word(s) removed–)ies in Africa that killed 224 people, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.
