In fact, Obama and his national security team made every effort -- successfully -- to keep the intelligence about bin Laden a closely held secret for almost a year, from the time they first identified what they believed might be the al Qaeda leader's hideout in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, in August 2010 until May 1, 2011, when the raid was launched to kill him.
There were no celebrations planned yet at the dark bar decorated with combat memorabilia, a framed article announcing the death of Osama bin Laden and a bronze plaque quoting W.C.
There was widespread suspicion that America wanted to use Pakistan as a base to launch some sort of attack on Afghanistan, in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, a Saudi who lives there in exile and is suspected of involvement in the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7th.
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Nor did bin Laden have a gun, as earlier reports had indicated, the senior official said.
Security was stepped up the following year after Osama bin Laden issued a general threat to kill US military personnel.
"The killing of Osama bin Laden is a major milestone, " he said.
And the shift was important in producing not just the elimination of Osama bin Laden but a lot of other clear victories in that fight.
The Clinton administration treated bin Laden as a law enforcement problem.
He rallied at once to America's side, arguing rightly that the new kind of terror unleashed by Osama Bin Laden posed a threat to all nations.
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In May 2011, U.S. Special Operations forces killed bin Laden during a nighttime raid on the compound in Pakistan where he had been living in secret.
Clinton later authorized the CIA to use deadly force against bin Laden and a cruise missile to strike his camp in Afghanistan, but lamely, to no avail.
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U.S. government analysts believe Bin Laden was a sponsor of attacks against U.S. troops in Somalia during the 1993 United Nations humanitarian relief effort there, including the clash that killed 18 U.S. Army Rangers.
Dr Afridi - believed to be in his late 40s - was the top medic in the Khyber tribal region before his arrest shortly after US troops killed Bin Laden in a raid in Abbottabad on 2 May 2011.
In his isolated final years, bin Laden became a micromanager, admonishing his Yemeni group that its members should always gas up and eat heartily before they embarked on road trips so that they wouldn't have to stop at gas stations and restaurants monitored by government spies.
In the wake of the raid that killed bin Laden and a relentless drone campaign, the group's leaders have taken an increasing number of precautions to reduce the Americans' ability to track them, said Mr. Jones, who has written a book on the pursuit of al Qaeda.
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Gary Berntsen, who led a CIA paramilitary unit pursuing bin Laden shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said Pakistan is a country bin Laden knows well.
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It was an ecological disaster, with dead and oil-laden birds as a painful reminder.
But perhaps above all it fits with his post-Bin Laden projection as a hard-headed risk taker.
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Washington has identified the Saudi-born Islamic militant, Osama Bin Laden, as a key suspect behind the attacks.
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