![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just a handful of US military and senior officials around President Obama knew of the planned raid. What follows has been pieced together from official US statements and off-the-record interviews, other news sources and BBC interviews with those living near the compound in Abbottabad, the quiet, leafy garrison town 35 miles north of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Publicly, the US authorities have given few details about the raid and some of these have changed since the news of Bin Laden's death was officially announced. It was mostly destroyed in an explosion set by the US forces as they departed. The US team was forced to abandon one of its helicopters after it was damaged in a hard landing at the compound site. President Obama and his security team watched the operation in real time from the White House ![]()
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