On September 11, 2001, 2,996 U.S. Citizens died within hours due to an attack by the al-Qaeda. This was the second attack on US soil, and had the highest death toll. 19 armed members of al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and planned suicide attacks on locations in America. Two planes crashed into the twin towers in New York City. A third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the fourth and final plane crashed in a remote field in Pennsylvania. There was one man behind this massive attack, and that man was Osama Bin Laden. The White House and CIA director John Brennan stated “The process began with a fragment of information unearthed in 2002, resulting in years of consequent investigation.”(Brennan. Dahl.179) Seymour Hersh, a journalist,
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embassy in Islamabad and offered to provide Bin Laden’s location for a $25 million dollar reward. He informed U.S. intelligence that Bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2006, and held under house arrest near Pakistani military centers ever since.(Dahl, 178) The U.S. began a local and satellite surveillance of Bin Laden’s Abbottabad residence shortly after the Pakistani intelligence officer gave them the information.(Dahl, 179)
CIA black sites and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp also helped finding Bin Laden. Identifications of al-Qaeda couriers was an early priority for interrogations, because Bin Laden was believed to communicate through such couriers while keeping his location secret from al-Qaeda foot soldiers and top commanders.
Matt Bissonnette (Pen name Mark Owen) was a former Navy SEAL, and was a member of SEAL Team 6 (Green Team). He was apart of Operation Neptune Spear, and wrote the book No Easy Day. However, this book was under speculation because it gave insight on one of the most confidential missions ever carried out by the U.S. …show more content…
The key to this operation was silence. The helicopters being used in the raid had been built and designed to be silent and to have low radar visibility. The Pakistani defensive capabilities were known, since the U.S. helped equip them and train them.
The raid was carried out by two dozen heliborne U.S. Navy SEALs from the Red Squadron.(Owen,289) The raid was scheduled for a time with little moonlight so the helicopters could enter Pakistan undetected. However, as they hovered above the target, the first helicopter experienced a hazardous air-flow condition known as a vortex ring state. This caused the helicopter to ultimately crash inside the compound, nobody was injured. The other helicopter landed outside the compound and the SEALs climbed the walls to get inside. (Owen, 242)
Once the SEALs got inside the compound and inside the house they engaged in gunfights with the armed men inside. Osama Bin Laden was killed in the raid, along with three other men and a woman were also killed. Rob O’Neill shot Bin Laden twice in the forehead, then once more as Bin Laden fell to the ground, at this time Matt Bissonnette also fired shots into Bin Laden’s fallen body. (Owen,
embassy in Islamabad and offered to provide Bin Laden’s location for a $25 million dollar reward. He informed U.S. intelligence that Bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2006, and held under house arrest near Pakistani military centers ever since.(Dahl, 178) The U.S. began a local and satellite surveillance of Bin Laden’s Abbottabad residence shortly after the Pakistani intelligence officer gave them the information.(Dahl, 179)
CIA black sites and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp also helped finding Bin Laden. Identifications of al-Qaeda couriers was an early priority for interrogations, because Bin Laden was believed to communicate through such couriers while keeping his location secret from al-Qaeda foot soldiers and top commanders.
Matt Bissonnette (Pen name Mark Owen) was a former Navy SEAL, and was a member of SEAL Team 6 (Green Team). He was apart of Operation Neptune Spear, and wrote the book No Easy Day. However, this book was under speculation because it gave insight on one of the most confidential missions ever carried out by the U.S. …show more content…
The key to this operation was silence. The helicopters being used in the raid had been built and designed to be silent and to have low radar visibility. The Pakistani defensive capabilities were known, since the U.S. helped equip them and train them.
The raid was carried out by two dozen heliborne U.S. Navy SEALs from the Red Squadron.(Owen,289) The raid was scheduled for a time with little moonlight so the helicopters could enter Pakistan undetected. However, as they hovered above the target, the first helicopter experienced a hazardous air-flow condition known as a vortex ring state. This caused the helicopter to ultimately crash inside the compound, nobody was injured. The other helicopter landed outside the compound and the SEALs climbed the walls to get inside. (Owen, 242)
Once the SEALs got inside the compound and inside the house they engaged in gunfights with the armed men inside. Osama Bin Laden was killed in the raid, along with three other men and a woman were also killed. Rob O’Neill shot Bin Laden twice in the forehead, then once more as Bin Laden fell to the ground, at this time Matt Bissonnette also fired shots into Bin Laden’s fallen body. (Owen,