On May 2, 2011, al-Qaida leader Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a local Pakistani town after more than a decade of being hunted down by the United States. During his decade-long fugitive career, bin Laden was extra cautious about safety, and he wouldn't even take a step out of hiding unless the weather was dim and the view was poor.
As can be seen from bin Laden's last set of photographs, his houses were converted from mountains to wooden houses, which were very simple, comparable to slums. But no matter where he was, he always carried a gun with him.
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9/11 was one of bin Laden and his organization's most well-known offensive, and the largest and most serious terrorist attack in U.S. history. A total of 2,996 people were killed, with direct losses of up to $200 billion.
The collapsed buildings include three buildings in the Pentagon and two buildings in the World Trade Center. The collapse of the five surrounding buildings after being affected has killed and injured countless medical and fire officers.
The 9/11 incident made bin Laden form a feud with the United States, and also allowed the U.S. military to launch a nearly 10-year pursuit operation.
Bin Laden was a native-born Saudi citizen. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait on a large scale because of the competition for oil resources.
The survival of Kuwait's neighbor Saudi Arabia was threatened, so the Saudi government turned to the U.S. government for help. Bin Laden believes that this is a risk of attracting wolves into the house, and firmly opposes the entry of US troops into Saudi Arabia.
At that time, in order to make the government aware of the risks of doing so, bin Laden visited the Saudi royal family directly and had close exchanges with the king. During the conversation, he raised the hope that al-Qaida could be used as a Royal Guard to protect national security.
A few days later, the Saudi royal family rejected the proposal outright and agreed to the U.S. request to establish a military base in Saudi Arabia.
Bin Laden was furious and unceremoniously wrote a letter accusing the Saudi royal family of violating the teachings of Islam. The king was furious that the king felt that the affair had humiliated the royal family in Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden's conflict with the Saudi government intensified, and he was stripped of his citizenship and deported by Saudi Arabia in 1998.
Bin Laden finally chose to go to Afghanistan to continue to realize his ideals after a long period of wandering. In response, bin Laden grew his al-Qaida and launched a series of attacks against the United States. Since then, the United States has launched a war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden evaded the U.S. government by his erratic whereabouts and seclusion in the mountains and villages, away from the crowds. Since 2001, bin Laden's whereabouts have been erratic, with his death reported by major media at least six times, and countless people claim to have seen his death.
In those 10 years, al-Qaida has released more than 30 videos and recordings of bin Laden, repeatedly smashing media reports about his death, but the United States has always been unable to confirm its specific location.
In these videos, bin Laden is carrying the same gun with him all the time, and this gun has great significance to him. The submachine gun that bin Laden loved came from the war in Afghanistan and was captured by his own hands, so for him, it represented his determination to fight to the end for his faith.
Osama bin Laden was very cautious, and in order to hide his whereabouts, he did not communicate with the outside world at all, and did not even reveal his whereabouts to anyone, including the high-level leaders of the "base". In this regard, the US government analyzed and concluded that someone must have delivered orders for bin Laden.
The "al-Qaida" elements who were arrested and imprisoned in the US military prison told an important piece of information after repeated cross-examination, and he identified a person who was said to be deeply trusted by bin Laden, named Ahmed.
After investigation, the U.S. government determined that this man was one of the masterminds of 9/11, os-laden's confidant. Locking down his whereabouts is equivalent to finding bin Laden himself.
Under close surveillance, U.S. intelligence agents discovered that Ahmed had made a phone call to a secret figure, and it was through this call that the U.S. government eventually locked bin Laden's tracks.
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If Izumi had known, bin Laden would never have thought that he had fallen into the hands of a girl in her twenties. A Tough Day, by former SEAL member Mark Biseni, details everything from the search to the killing of bin Laden.
The book describes that the person who found bin Laden was a 20-year-old girl who worked for the CIA and became a "Jane" of an excellent intelligence analyst at a young age because of her superior intelligence and logical reasoning ability.
The U.S. government first tortured a grassroots member who had been serving al-Qaida for a long time.
It was learned in his mouth that a man named Abd Al-Ahmed, who was often present at bin Laden's side, was suspected of being his confidant and messenger. Jane immediately became acutely aware that if the man's whereabouts could be monitored, there was a chance to pin down bin Laden's whereabouts.
So, after a long period of close surveillance, Jane finally discovered in 2006 that Abd al-Ahmed was in a building in Pakistan's Abbottabad region, 35 miles from Islamabad, at regular intervals.
After careful analysis and extensive investigation, it was assumed that this building was probably the hiding place of bin Laden today.
The house is very large, but the security work is very well done. Except for a very small number of members within the organization, almost no one else is usually seen walking around.
The walls of the courtyard were 3 or 4 meters high, and the top of the walls was still pulled by an iron wire mesh; the windows of the rooms were almost completely sealed, and outsiders could not see the situation inside the house from the outside. The strangest thing is that there is no internet connection here, not even a telephone line. In addition, when the occupants solve the household garbage, they actually burn all the garbage.
After a long period of observation, the monitors found that there was a very mysterious person on the 3rd floor of the courtyard, who rarely went out, and even if he went out by chance, he must be fully armed. He suspected that the man was bin Laden.
But because this involves U.S. diplomatic relations with Pakistan, bin Laden's arrest must be 100 percent accurate to be carried out. If the name is not right, it will not only be disgraced, but the friendly diplomatic relations established with the Middle East will not only be directly destroyed.
Under these concerns, the U.S. government has been delayed for 5 years before it can act. Thanks to Jane's perseverance, five years later she was finally 100 percent sure that bin Laden was hiding here.
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On May 1, 2011, senior national security and U.S. intelligence agency officials gathered at the White House. President Barack Obama and they repeatedly confirmed the final course of action.
Subsequently, the action of this outcome that could shock the world began. Under Obama's arrangement, black hawk helicopters loaded with American SEALs took off from u.S. military bases in Afghanistan in the dead of night.
It was a top-secret operation whose goal was to capture or kill os-jain Bin Laden. When the SEALs landed at their destination, it was the time when their dreams were at their best. According to the original plan, the plane should have landed quietly in the small courtyard, but the plane lost control halfway and accidentally fell outside the courtyard.
Fortunately, there were no casualties and no major movements, and the operation was carried out as usual.
The operatives divided into groups and sneaked into the building. When he rushed to the second floor, a man had already been ambushed in the corner, but before he could shoot, the Navy SEALs shot him dead. However, the young man who was easily killed by the US military was not bin Laden himself, but his son, who he had arranged to live on the second floor.
The Navy SEALs continued their assault, and as soon as they reached the corridor on the third floor, they saw a figure. The man stretched out a head and looked back and forth, then turned back and shouted in a suppressed voice, "It's American!" ”
The captain keenly observed that the man had his hands behind his back, as if he were hiding some self-defense weapon. In order to avoid complications and reduce unnecessary casualties, he immediately made a decision, commanded his teammates to cooperate with each other, and directly shot him in the head.
To be on the safe side, he fired several more shots to confirm that the person lying on the ground had become a corpse before he dared to look at it.
After several comparisons with the photos, it was confirmed that the dead man was bin Laden. Only then did the SEALs breathe a sigh of relief. Immediately after, they put bin Laden's body in sacks and controlled the women in the house who were crying loudly.
Late into the night, after taking everyone under control and arrest, the U.S. military found in the room the yellow and gold robe bin Laden had worn on his previous video recordings, as well as a bottle of hair dye. At this point, the team members were finally able to relax and report the news to their president.
After bin Laden was killed, in order to prevent the frenzied retaliation of his comrades, his body was thrown into the sea by the American army according to the instructions of his superiors. At 23:15 on the same day, the U.S. government officially announced to the world through the media that the U.S. military had finally killed the terrorist bin Laden.
22 years of holy war, 10 years of flight, burned in 40 minutes of artillery fire.
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Back to this pistol. Bin Laden loved it so much not only because of the symbolism it carried on him, but also because of its outstanding performance.
It is the world's largest automatic rifle in production and sales, and the most imitated gun family in the world. In addition to this, it has been printed on the national emblem of Zimbabwe, on coins of the former Soviet Union and on the flag of Mozambique. He travels around the battlefields with ninety percent utilization, and he's the AK47.
The A in AK47 means automatic, and 47 means that it was developed in 1947. K is the acronym for its inventor, Kalashnikov.
Kalashnikov was born in 1919 in the Altai region of south-central Soviet Union. He grew up hungry for success and a hero, so he joined the army at the age of 18. Successive defeats and tragic situations on the battlefield gave him the idea of developing a lightweight submachine gun suitable for mobile warfare.
Under his hard work, in 1942, the first gun of the AK series was born. Major General Bragunravov, the most famous firearms designer at the time, saw the gun and admired the young man's talent and sent him to the Military Technical School to study.
In 1946, the AK-46 automatic rifle was born. After seeing the design of this gun, Teggarev, a famous russian master of small arms design, gave the following comment: "His work is much better than mine, and I am sure that this gun will definitely attract everyone's attention in the future..."
In 1947, Kalashnikov and his team designed the original AK47 submachine gun. Later, such guns were recognized by the Soviet government as soviet military equipment.
During the Cold War, the soviet union's new invention was quickly introduced to other countries in its own camp as soon as it was introduced, in the face of the urgent need for advanced weapons.
It didn't take long for the secret of the gun to spread to the Soviet bloc, and its users spread all over the world. Even the United States at the time began to use this Soviet-made weapon.
The most outstanding feature of the AK47 assault rifle is its short body, which is very suitable for close combat, reliable and durable, very low failure rate, and strong adaptability, which can be adapted to a variety of environments.
And it is simple to make, parts are easy to collect, even some remote and backward villages in the mountains of Pakistan can also make their own, as long as you can order the barrel and trigger, you can make a complete AK47.
Data show that AK47 has been adopted by more than 90 countries around the world since its invention, and it can be seen on almost all battlefields. The bullets it sprayed killed no less than 10 million people.
In 2001, the events of 9/11 shocked the world.
Three months later, bin Laden appeared unharmed on social media, and people around the world noticed that he was holding an AK74 submachine gun in his hand. Although bin Laden's terrorist act had nothing to do with Kalashnikov, he still felt that bin Laden's behavior was an insult to his work and to himself.
Because of the AK47's extensive use in warfare, the gun, along with its founder, has suffered a lot of criticism on the Internet. Under bin Laden's influence, this rhetoric intensified, and fierce attacks on him and his inventors by pacifists online were staged every day.
Although its inventor, Kalashnikov, was very old at this time, in order to justify his most satisfactory work, he was constantly fighting for the opportunity to appear in the media. Whenever someone discussed exactly how many people the AK47 had killed, he would always respond firmly: "The sin is not in the rifle, but in the person who pulls the trigger." ”
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Kalashnikov Oak, the inventor of the AK47, never regretted developing it, as he said ' the sin is not in the rifle, but in the man who pulls the trigger'.
It can be said that due to the large number of applications of AK47 on the battlefield, the war was able to speed up its process. The essence of the war is still the desire of the human heart and the competition for resources. On this point, whether the user of this weapon is bin Laden or Gandhi is consistent.
Therefore, we should treat this bin Laden's favorite gun with a normal heart, rather than artificially deifying or demonizing it.
Regardless of bin Laden's own thoughts, after his death, the gun captured by his own hands will most likely be captured by an American soldier and become extremely collectible because of the symbolism of peace it represents.
Perhaps it will be displayed in the museum alongside Saddam's gilded gun, and people will look back on bin Laden's wonderful life when they see and enjoy it up close.