(Click on Image to Enlarge)How A 40-Minute Raid Ended Ten Years Of Defiance, As American Troops' Head Cameras Relayed Every Detail To The President -- The Daily Mail
* Bin Laden's body flown away by helicopter after the 40-minute raid
* Luxury compound was only 60 miles from Pakistan capital Islamabad
* Terrorist refused to surrender and was eventually shot in the eye
* CIA analysts spent months looking at satellite trying to work out what was inside
With heavy cloud rolling in over the town of Abbottabad, conditions were perfect for the raid to take out Osama Bin Laden after ten years on the run. The previous night, the operation had been cancelled because the weather was clear and the U.S. aircraft would have been spotted from a distance.
But at 1am yesterday – 9pm on Sunday UK time – the sleeping citizens were awoken by the clatter of four military helicopters thought to be two Black Hawks and two Chinooks.
They contained more than 100 elite commandos who had been training intensively for days at their airbase, Bagram in Afghanistan, using a detailed mock-up of Bin Laden’s hideaway constructed by the CIA. After dummy runs on April 7 and April 13, they flew to the Tarbela Ghazi airbase in north-west Pakistan, which the CIA has permission to use.
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My Comment: I will be having a complete news roundup on the killing of Osama Bin laden at 16:00 EST.
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