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President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House Photo: PETER SOUZA
Top Foreign News 2011: Osama Bin Laden Killed -- The Telegraph
When US Navy Seals flew into Pakistan to kill the world’s most wanted man they ended a decade dominated by al-Qaeda and the memory of the smoking twin towers.
For five years Osama bin Laden had been hiding in plain sight. With three wives and countless children he lived in a three-storey house in Abbottabad, a military town home to Pakistan’s military officer training college.
While the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader focused on Pakistan’s rugged border regions, no-one much noticed the reclusive family who did without a telephone line and burned their rubbish inside the walls of their spacious compound.
But gradually in 2010 the CIA drones closed in on the high-walled villa. Analysts watching video screens could see the man they nicknamed “the pacer” in his courtyard, increasingly certain that it was their quarry.
On May 2, Barack Obama announced to the world that the al-Qaeda leader was dead.
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My Comment: The death of Osama Bin laden was important, but the Arab Spring and the subsequent revolutions that it has spawned in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, etc.. will impact us more in the years to come than the death of a terrorist leader has been.
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