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Osama Bin Laden killed

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Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed May 2, 2011, by US Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary forces who tracked him to a compound in Abbottadad, Pakistan.

The US had been trying to kill or capture Bin Laden since it launched an invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. - The New York Times, msnbc.com

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