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  • The labyrinth of Tora Bora, just across the border, would baffle American Special Forces who tried unsuccessfully, according to locals who claim to have protected him, to prevent Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda comrades from slipping into Waziristan.†   (source)
  • One of the CIA's leading sources on Osama bin Laden reported he saw the al Qaeda leader near Tora Bora.†   (source)
  • Not long after his release, he made his way to Afghanistan and pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • And that was their role in playing host to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda movement.†   (source)
  • He was also known to be one of Osama bin Laden's closest associates.†   (source)
  • For all its Islamic fervor, Osama bin Laden's creation was a highly bureaucratic enterprise.†   (source)
  • Osama bin Laden was born March 10, 1957, in Riyadh.†   (source)
  • Osama bin Laden was dead, the president announced to the world.†   (source)
  • We were finally going after Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • After a firelight, they killed Osama bin Laden...†   (source)
  • I still couldn't believe they had finally found Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.†   (source)
  • Money poured in from all over the Arab world, particularly Saudi Arabia, which matched whatever the US sent, and volunteer fighters too, including a Saudi millionaire called Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • A Jordanian who had fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, he was committed to killing Americans.†   (source)
  • They were radical Sunni Muslims with an allegiance to Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader who needs no introduction—and whom SEALs hunted down and gave a fitting sendoff in 2011.†   (source)
  • During the night American special forces called Navy SEALs had carried out a raid in Abbottabad, one of the places we'd stayed as IDPs, and had found and killed Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • We found it well to remember those Taliban insurgents were the very same guys who sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had been living in Kandahar when the attack on the World Trade Center happened, and the Americans had sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan to catch him and overthrow the Taliban regime which had protected him.†   (source)
  • The Taliban were still in power, and they were still hiding Osama bin Laden, but their isolation, political and diplomatic, was becoming total.†   (source)
  • That had been abandoned, but it was stark evidence of the strong links between the Iraqi dictator and Osama bin Laden's would-be warriors.†   (source)
  • If I ever rounded a mountainside in Afghanistan and came face to face with Osama bin Laden, the man who masterminded the vicious, unprovoked attack on my country, killing 2,752 innocent American civilians in New York on 9/11, I'd shoot him dead, in cold blood.†   (source)
  • And suddenly there I was, dressed up like Osama bin Laden's second in command, arms wrapped around a couple of tribesmen like we were three drunks falling up the hill, the village policeman right behind yelling, "Two-two-eight!†   (source)
  • Those mountains up in the northeast, the western end of the mighty range of the Hindu Kush, were the very same mountains where the Taliban had sheltered the lunatics of al Qaeda, shielded the crazed followers of Osama bin Laden while they plotted the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11.†   (source)
  • And Faisal, who would spit on a picture of Osama Bin Laden any time he saw one, would shudder at the thought of what people under those bombs must be going through and raise his hands in a dua, asking Allah to spare them any unnecessary suffering.†   (source)
  • Their crews, Mortenson thought, had been unlucky enough to fly near Massoud's stronghold after the CIA made Stinger missiles and the training to fire them effectively available to mujahadeen leaders battling America's Cold War enemy here, leaders like Osama Bin Laden.†   (source)
  • It was said of Paul Rousseau, Alpha Group's chief, that he had plotted more bombings than Osama bin Laden, a charge he did not dispute, though he was quick to point out that none of his bombs actually exploded.†   (source)
  • When he touched down at a disused airbase outside Jalalabad, with attaché cases crammed with untraceable hundred-dollar bills, and a retinue of fighters, seasoned, as he was, by prior campaigns in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, Osama Bin Laden was reportedly in a foul mood.†   (source)
  • One night changed everything; the wave of publicity following Osama bin Laden's death thrust the little-known unit into the spotlight.†   (source)
  • At home, I gave my sleeping kids a kiss, then headed to my computer, where I discovered an e-mail from Kelley with the subject line "Osama bin Laden."†   (source)
  • Lindh, fresh from the crisp climate of Marin County, would reportedly wilt under the anvil of Waziristan's sun, and cross the passes into Afghanistan, to continue his education at a madrassa in the mountains with a more temperate climate, a madrassa financed by another Saudi, Osama Bin Laden.†   (source)
  • Are you sure that is Osama bin Laden?†   (source)
  • And for Osama Bin Laden and his apocalyptic emissaries, the nineteen mostly Saudi men about to board American airliners carrying box-cutters, Massoud's death meant that the one leader most capable of uniting northern Afghanistan's warlords around the American military aid sure to pour in was toppled, like the towers about to fall half a world away.†   (source)
  • FROM MAY THROUGH JULY 2011, when it seemed that every journalist on the planet was scrambling to get an inside angle on the Osama bin Laden kill mission in Pakistan, I was making my way around the United States interviewing over a dozen U.S. Navy SEALs.†   (source)
  • The hunt for Osama bin Laden had begun, and while Adam assured his family that his first deployment would be to South America, he didn't hide his enthusiasm for getting into the fight in Afghanistan as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • The mission was a team effort, from the intelligence analysts who found Osama bin Laden to the helicopter pilots who flew us to Abbottabad to the men who assaulted the compound.†   (source)
  • On September 11, 2001, I was on my first deployment as a SEAL, and as Osama bin Laden's name was mentioned I figured my unit would get the call to go to Afghanistan the next day.†   (source)
  • In Afghanistan, the oppressive Taliban government that provided a safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his fellow al Qaeda terrorists had surrendered ten months earlier, on December 5, 2001, after just two months of war.†   (source)
  • Since my first deployment as a SEAL and the attacks on September 11, I'd dreamed of being involved in the mission that would kill or capture Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
  • In addition to fighting these insurgents and jihadists and providing security for the newly formed Afghan government, the U.S. military's priority mission remained the manhunt for Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11 attacks on American soil.†   (source)
  • "We have cut off their head," he said, "and we will ultimately defeat them ...Our strategy is working, and there is no greater evidence of that than justice finally being delivered to Osama bin Laden."†   (source)
  • They discussed Operation Red Dawn, which had led to the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, 2003, near Tikrit, as well as Osama bin Laden and how Dale hoped to be the guy who took bin Laden out when the time came.†   (source)
  • Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.†   (source)
  • Osama bin Laden was dead.†   (source)
  • "Osama bin Laden," she said.†   (source)
  • Osama bin Laden.†   (source)
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