The 9/11 incident blew up not only two iconic buildings in the United States, but also completely collapsed American self-confidence: See? If people want to you, any day to pick a sunny day, they can drive a plane to crash into the door of your house, killing you by surprise.
The Americans fell into uncontrollable panic, and the US government quickly identified the person behind the terrorist attack as the notorious al-Qaida leader bin Laden, and with the order of George W. Bush, the Us side began a decade-long pursuit of bin Laden.
The scorched CIA
There has been no progress in several years, the pressure on the CIA can be described as particularly large, the director has changed four or five, the reputation is also a mess, the chickens and dogs jump everywhere they go abroad, and the domestic is also pointed at by the Americans and scolded for not doing a good job, inside and outside is not a person.
President George W. Bush's initial attitude was to swear to kill bin Laden, the kind that wanted to see people die and see corpses, and even brazenly marched into Afghanistan, resulting in three feet of digging ground during his eight-year tenure and failing to catch a single hair of bin Laden.
Well, you swap it out too.
So George W. Bush ran away with the title of "worst president", Obama took over the baton of pursuing os-jain Bin Laden, and in order to show the new atmosphere, he replaced a new CIA director, Leonpa Netta.
Obama declared: "From now on, capturing bin Laden is your Panetta and the number one task for the entire CIA." ”
The director of the CIA sits in his seat every day trembling, and even the president has changed rounds, but bin Laden is still alive and kicking.
During Bush Jr.'s tenure, in order to prove that he lived a very moist life, bin Laden from time to time published some of his own videotapes through television to convey messages to the outside world.
Through these tapes, it can be seen that bin Laden is well aware of the movements of the outside world, and he clearly knows when, where and what is happening, and this taste of my enemies and secret enemies makes the US side extremely anxious.
The implicit meaning conveyed by bin Laden's videos has successfully created panic for the outside world, and bin Laden has a nightmare in the middle of the night.
Bin Laden's trail is harder to find than a ghost, and only regularly released videotapes can prove that there is indeed such a person in the world, and the anxious CIA hopes that these tapes will try to find any clues.
They studied the tape to the bottom, slowly analyzing it frame by frame, and refused to let go of anything in it that could be regarded as a clue.
Bin Laden is hiding in a cave out of nowhere, because the dense mountain area is more convenient to escape when danger comes, the CIA, together with various geologists, animal and plant experts, is eager to study the geology of the stone wall behind bin Laden in the video, as well as the occasional bird song.
So rigorous that even if bin Laden eats a bad stomach and accidentally farts during the speech, the agents will be like a big enemy, using various high-tech to analyze what the sound really is.
In 1998, the U.S. offered a $5 million reward to pursue os-Din bin Laden, by 2005 the bounty had doubled to $25 million, and in 2007, the House of Representatives unanimously agreed to raise the bounty to $50 million.
But there was still no one to come to the door with a clue, and the CIA could not help but be confused: what is wrong with the world, do they not want to give money, do they have no concept of the amount of the bounty, do they think that the money is very small?
But the subsequent suicide bombings made them realize that it wasn't a question of money at all.
Prior to this, in order to obtain intelligence, the agents' interrogation methods were used to the extreme, and all sides criticized their mistreatment of captive prisoners, and the CIA was infamous, but behind the scenes, it was still unrelenting.
In this way, through harsh interrogation, the CIA finally grasped a key clue from the members of the "al-Qaeda" detained in Theanamo prison — a messenger named "Kuwaiti".
In order to avoid tracking, bin Laden has long cut off all scientific and technological means and lived the most primitive life, and communications are transmitted back and forth by couriers, and this "Kuwaiti" is the messenger who specially delivers letters to bin Laden.
As for the real names of the messengers, the prisoners in the "Black Cell" and The Tanamo Prison could not be said to have been killed, because no one knew.
The trail was interrupted until 2007, when the CIA learned the messenger's real name, Ibrahim Ahmed.
But it was only a name, and this clue still had no eyebrows.
The stalemate lasted until 2008, when both the CIA director and the president were replaced, and then another year passed before progress was finally made.
A human bomb of a three-sided spy
There is a scene in the British comedy movie "Agent Bean", a special agent dies, all the agents gather at the funeral to mourn for him, Bean shakes his head and says to his boss: You are about to enter the safest place in the whole of Britain...
Immediately after that, there was an explosion in the background, and the entire British intelligence elite was destroyed.
When the CIA tracked down bin Laden, there was also an absurd episode in which "elite agents gathered together and were eventually blown up en masse."
In the spring of 2009, Jordanian intelligence captured a Jordanian doctor named Balawi and handed it over to the Americans, who attempted to rebel against him as an informant and brought him information about bin Laden, and Balawi agreed.
Since then, Barawi has dutifully fulfilled his obligations as a spy, although the information given is painless and itchy, but the meat scum is better than nothing, and the CIA patiently waits.
Finally, on December 30, 2009, Barawi suddenly claimed to have top-secret intelligence about bin Laden's deputy, Al-Qaida number two, Al-Qaida leader, Zawahiri, and asked for a personal interview with CIA officials in Afghanistan's Khost province.
The CIA was overjoyed: Arrange now!
So the person was taken over to prepare for the interview, the clues had stagnated for so many years, the dawn was in sight, and the CIA looked at Barawi's eyes like looking at the only baby knot in the palm of his hand.
On the same day, many high-level agents arrived, all of whom were very good at the Afghan issue, and everyone gathered in the Chapman camp with joy and joy, and they did not care that "the operation of the agents in groups is a big taboo", and they rubbed their hands and waited for the upcoming "senior intelligence".
In order to show that he trusted Balawi enough, when leading people into the Chapman barracks, the U.S. army did not conduct a comprehensive body search on Balawi for the first time, and directly let him go in in a car, and then something big happened.
Barawi spoke to CIA officials for a short time, and directly detonated the bomb hidden on his body, killing 4 CIA agents, 3 U.S. security guards, and 1 senior Jordanian official.
It turns out that Jordanian doctor Barawi just played an "infernal affairs": you thought I was going to betray bin Laden, wrong, I just wanted to blow up a few more of you.
The limit is exchanged for seven, this wave of truth, the other base believers have to give a thumbs up to Balawi, the "fighter".
Balawi doesn't love power or money, his only love is the "light of justice" of jihad, and it's no wonder the CIA once said it was a hundred times harder to plot against an ultra-idealistic al-Qaida agent than a KGB agent.
When a person has no worldly desire for money and power other than extreme beliefs, he is simply more difficult to chew than the stinky stones in the latrine.
The final kill
Being put together by the "informant" and putting in his own people, the CIA was extremely embarrassed, facing the indiscriminate bombardment of the outside world, and had to find ways to cover up the past.
In 2010, the CIA finally located the mysterious messenger and found him hiding in a small town in the Abbottabad region on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The CIA was at a loss again: This is not very reasonable, it is reasonable to say that it should be hidden in the mountain nest, and it is actually just living in the town?
The CIA relocated to a compound in the town and identified it as the messenger's residence.
The house immediately became a key object of observation, and the CIA took images of the courtyard through satellites and sent agents to the neighborhood to observe the living habits of the people in the house.
This observation led to the idea of something, first of all the visible house, which was built on an open ground with its back to the mountain, and the whole house was surrounded by high walls, with barbed wire installed on the walls, and the windows of the house were few, and they were all particularly small.
Agents who were watching nearby also found some unusual phenomena, judging from the daily entry and exit personnel, it should be inhabited by the messenger and his brother's two families, but the agents stared at the clothes rails outside day and night, and found that something was wrong.
There seems to be a third family in this room.
On the clothesline there are some traditional Pakistani men's clothing, women's clothing, clothes for children of all ages, and even diapers every day.
The agents could be sure that at least one family still lived in the house, but the strange thing was that they had never seen the third family come out, so the agents deduced that the supplies needed for food, clothing, shelter and transportation of the people inside should be purchased by the messenger and his family.
Moreover, the people in this house never throw garbage outside, but burn themselves in the courtyard, which is a very strange habit, unless all the children are environmental guards.
If it is a normal resident, where there is a need to be careful to this point, obviously, there are many hidden figures in the house.
A large family of people, a group of children, several women around, and the messenger closely associated, who else can there be?
Bin Laden has been married six times, and the ideal of life is to marry four wives, the current separation, scattering, at least four wives, the children under the knee can form a football team.
The CIA was highly suspicious that it might be bin Laden himself hiding in the house, but there was not enough evidence to confirm this conjecture, and even if he had seen people who looked like bin Laden moving around the house, it might have been a stand-in.
In other words, there is little way to prove that bin Laden is in that house.
The agents squatted for a while, but they only dared to look from a distance, for fear of hitting the grass and startling the snake.
The CIA reported to Obama that bin Laden was likely hiding in the house, and although there was no way to prove it, the CIA could not tell the president whether he wanted to go on his own.
So the CIA listed all kinds of clues and showed them to Obama, but it couldn't give a target.
Obama was speechless, but Commissioner Panetta said he couldn't delay any longer, so Obama ordered Panetta to go back and prepare a plan to see what to do.
A few months later, Panetta returned with the plan:
Traditional American bombing skills, directly using B-2 bombers to raze houses to the ground
Drones launch precision missiles
Raids are carried out by commandos
Obama finally chose option three, decided to send a Navy SEALs to carry out a raid, transporting the commandos to the compound by helicopter, searching for bin Laden, and killing them as soon as they were found.
After the Navy SEALs optimized the plan, trained and simulated actual combat, on the evening of May 1, 2011 local time, the killing of Bin Laden officially began.
A number of senior U.S. government officials, led by Obama, gathered in the war room to witness the whole process of the operation.
From the perspective of the US side, 24 commandos boarded the Black Hawk helicopter and quietly entered Pakistani airspace, followed by two Chinook helicopters carrying 24 commandos, ready to support at any time in the rear.
Two black hawks came to the target house above the opportunity to land, but the division was unfavorable, the first black hawk accidentally hit the wall when landing, almost destroyed the plane, and the scene could not bear to look directly.
The movement alarmed the people in the house, and the messenger immediately got up and went out to check on the situation.
The Chinugan planes immediately came to support, and the 12 commandos on the second Black Hawk landed smoothly and began to attack the house, and three commandos attacked from the side, just in time to meet the messenger.
The messenger was shot in the head.
Eight more commandos stormed the house, began to clean up the floors, killed the messenger's brother and sister-in-law on the first floor, and rushed to the second floor, bumping into bin Laden's 23-year-old son and killing him.
On the second floor, the commandos finally spotted Bin Laden, and one of the team members immediately raised their guns and aimed them at bin Laden, at which point a woman next to bin Laden shouted no and rushed up to try to stop it.
The team members were startled and immediately shot the woman in the calf, the woman fell to the ground, and the random commandos aimed at bin Laden and shot him in the upper left eye and chest.
This is the course of action from the perspective of the US military.
From the perspective of bin Laden's wife that night, it is basically a story of a person who slept soundly and was kicked open by someone and his husband was headshot.
The woman who pounced on the U.S. military and tried to block the gun for bin Laden was bin Laden's youngest wife, Amal, who was shot in the lower leg, fainted in pain, and woke up to see her husband's brain plasma dying, she cried out in pain, and was blocked by the U.S. military and thrown aside.
According to her recollection, after dinner, bin Laden slept as usual, sleeping with himself, and suddenly woke up in the middle of the night by the movement outside the house, yes, the black hawk that hit the wall with the force of upside down.
Bin Laden sat up, his face pale, and gasped in horror: "The Americans are coming!" ”
Soon, there was a fierce exchange of fire outside, and the children were so frightened that they were crying, and bin Laden asked his wives to take the children downstairs and said to them, "They want me, not you." ”
Immediately after the U.S. troops rushed in, raised their guns and aimed their guns at bin Laden, Amal rushed to try to stop the U.S. troops, but were hit by bullets, and then woke up to see bin Laden's tragic death.
After killing bin Laden, two more Chinook helicopters came to reinforcements, and the commandos began to clear the battlefield.
They took all the electronics from the house, and the commandos took "posthumous pictures" of Bin Laden's body on the ground and then sent the pictures back to the CIA.
After facial analysis and identification, the experts initially confirmed that it was os-jain Bin Laden, and then The Director-General Panetta reported the news to the president and senior officials in the war room: bin Laden had been killed.
A house of crying women and children arranged separately, and the team members destroyed the black hawk in the courtyard to prevent it from falling into the hands of other forces, and then flew to the northern waters of the Arabian Sea with bin Laden's body.
Sea burial has basically become the disposal method of the body of every terrorist leader who has been killed, especially the leader of bin Laden, who has a large number of followers, and it is not safe to bury anywhere, for fear of becoming a "holy place" for terrorists to worship.
Still throwing the sea miles to save their minds, the U.S. army buried Bin Laden at sea as usual.
After the funeral was held on the aircraft carrier USS Carvinson on May 2, bin Laden's body was packed into an overweight body bag and thrown into the open sea.
Obama announced os-jain Bin Laden's death to the world, the United States rejoiced, and former President George W. Bush was pleased.
During the speech, Obama and Pakistan forcibly linked, saying that with the help of the Pakistani military, bin Laden was successfully killed.
However, at this time, Pakistan had just woken up, looked at the news of bin Laden's death on the screen, and realized that the United States had touched its hometown in the middle of the night, killed people without a word, and ran away.
During the whole process, Pakistan did not even notice it, and after reacting to it, it jumped like a thunderbolt, and the US-Pakistani relationship fell to the bottom.
Sources of information:
CIA Bloody Afghanistan Transcript: Three-Sided Spies Kill 7 U.S. Agents World Wide Web
Senior Jordanian: The CIA bloody man bomber is not necessarily jordanian Balawi China Daily Network
Al Jazeera also used bin Laden's last moments to sleep with his youngest wife, The People's Daily
The mystery of the US military's killing of os-laden CCTV