At one o'clock in the morning on May 2, 2011, the White House temporarily converted a command room, this small room was crowded with people.
Standing, sitting, a dozen people crowded into this small room, the door could not be closed.
But these people seemed to forget the crowding here and stared nervously at the screen in front of them.
These were the entire U.S. leadership team, seated by then-U.S. President Barack Obama, then-Vice President and incumbent U.S. President Joseph Biden, then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
Watch important people on live streams
Standing around were important people from all over the United States, watching a live broadcast of the war.
The South Asian nation of Pakistan, thousands of miles from the United States, is engaged in a small military operation, code-named "Spear of poseidon", with only one purpose, to kill bin Laden.
Although the scale of this operation is not large, these bigwigs in the US political circles have already raised their voices in their hearts.
Bin laden
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > has finally raised an eyebrow after more than a decade of hunting down bin Laden</h1>
From the time President George W. Bush announced the arrest of bin Laden after the "9.11 incident" to the time he was killed in May 2011, it took the United States a total of ten years, and President George W. Bush even launched a war to hunt down and kill bin Laden, spending more than trillions of dollars before and after.
But the U.S. hunt for os-jain goes back to the early 1990s.
In 1992 bin Laden and his trained but armed men launched terrorist attacks around the world, and the following year Khasi, a Pakistani, fled after shooting two employees in front of the CIA.
Through intelligence gathering, the CIA discovered that the mastermind behind the scenes was osama bin Laden, whom they were all too familiar with, and the cat-and-mouse game between the United States and bin Laden officially began.
As we all know, bin Laden was originally supported by Western countries led by the United States.
In 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, os-Laden came to Afghanistan to train fighters and organize guerrilla groups to fight the Soviet Union. At that time, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was intolerable, and the Western countries led by the United States naturally wanted to use bin Laden to consume the Soviet Union.
So he gave bin Laden a lot of support, guns and guns, even Stinger missiles, and the CIA allocated half a billion dollars a year.
The Western media also carried out various propaganda against bin Laden, and the relationship between bin Laden and the West at that time was diametrically opposed to that later.
The turning point in relations between the United States and bin Laden was in 1991.
That year the Gulf War broke out, the two sides of the war were the UNITED States-led multinational force and Iraq, Bin Laden was Saudi, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were Arab countries, in bin Laden's eyes this is bullying Arabs.
So al-Qaida, which had been established for three years at the time, became bin Laden's force against the United States. The changes in the relationship between bin Laden and the United States are very familiar, and those who the United States supported later became the opposite.
After bin Laden and the United States turned their faces, they created many attacks against Western countries.
Al-Qaida
For example, the first attack on the World Trade Center in the United States in 1993, the bombing of the Cole warship in October 2000, the USS Cole destroyer was attacked in the port of Aden, Yemen, and was killed and wounded 17 and 39.
On August 7, 1998, al-Qaida attacked the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with car bombs, killing 224 people and injuring more than 4,500 others, second only to the 9/11 incident.
9/11 was the craziest attack on bin Laden, souring its relations with the United States to its lowest point.
Several heavy-losing attacks have made the Americans both frightened and angry, eager to kill bin Laden immediately, and whenever they find a trace of bin Laden, they will launch high-intensity fighter bombing and dozens of missile attacks, never at any cost.
9.11 Events
Bin Laden had been playing hide-and-seek in the Torabora Mountains on the Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the United States, and then bin Laden disappeared like the wind, and he didn't even use the phone and the Internet anymore, but instead manipulated everything by the way the oldest people sent messages, and people inside al-Qaida knew little about where he was.
This made the Americans very distressed, and when bin Laden frequently appeared to provoke the United States, it was not possible to eliminate it. Moreover, bin Laden deliberately disappeared from the sight of the Americans, the scope of bin Laden's activities has always been very wide, many countries have his influence, and looking for him is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
After a period of fruitless searching, the United States put the breakthrough on the person who delivered the message, and the person who sent the message for bin Laden had access to all kinds of "al-Qaida" people and would contact os-din bin Laden.
In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, there is the United States Guantanamo base, which holds many "al-Qaida" terrorists captured by the United States, and the Americans have confirmed the existence of this messenger through interrogation, but they have not interrogated who this person is.
It wasn't until 2010 that the United States overheard phone calls from members of al-Qaida, including a man named Sheikh Abu Ahmed, who was suspected to be bin Laden's "messengers."
Through tracking him down, abbottabad in northeastern Pakistan was found and a compound was locked.
Guantanamo Base
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > a fearful military operation</h1>
The United States locked this compound in Abbottabad, only more than a hundred kilometers from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, and a few hundred meters away is the Kakur Military Academy, one of Pakistan's most important military academies.
From construction in 2005 to completion in 2010, the concrete compound was built intermittently for five years. There is a small three-story building inside, but it is strange that such a mansion does not have a telephone, no Internet, and the household garbage is not thrown away in the yard. Therefore, you can often see thick black smoke rising inside.
According to the descriptions of nearby neighbors, the family never interacted with people or accepted any invitations, and American intelligence officers were puzzled that the family never lacked money to spend without leaving the house.
Bin Laden residence
The people in the courtyard were not leaking, it was difficult for the Americans to obtain further intelligence, and the United States had sent personnel to live nearby using various equipment that could be used to observe, and also tried to contact the people in the courtyard, but they were all blocked out, and the people inside were no one.
In order to keep it secret, the owner of the courtyard will even walk against the courtyard wall for a walk, so that it is difficult to determine the appearance of the person whether it is from the roof of other buildings or aerial reconnaissance.
In addition to the tall courtyard wall, there are also barbed wire fences and two security doors, and the space in the courtyard is divided into several parts by several courtyard walls, which is not exaggerated to describe it as "airtight".
In fact, not getting more information is a kind of information, what kind of people will be so isolated from the world and act strangely?
This at least shows that there is a problem with this family. However, as long as there is no 100% certainty that the owner of the hospital is bin Laden, the United States cannot easily do it.
Because no matter what kind of military means are taken without consent in the territory of other countries, it is considered a military invasion, if the killing of bin Laden can be returned without being detected, at least there can be a statement, but once there is no bin Laden inside, and the operation is also discovered by the Pakistani security forces, the problem is complicated.
Leon Panetta, then the director of the CIA, decided to take a risk, and this situation was often two solutions, either the simplest and most direct way to play, no matter how many people in the target building were directly swept away by bombing, the target task would die, or it was to transport special forces into it to eliminate the target.
Leon Panetta
McRaven, then commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, gave these two options, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Bomber a few bombs down the target will die, go back quickly is not easy to be caught, but it is easy to blow up the wrong target, the other side's bones are gone and it is difficult to say clearly.
It takes more time to use special forces, the variables are large, but they are flexible, selective, and can be withdrawn if they are wrong, but if they are found by the Pakistani security forces, it will be a big trouble.
In order to be foolproof, the United States specially built the same building as this compound, and selected twenty-four soldiers to practice the attack repeatedly.
McRaven
Once the operation is launched, two modified Black Hawk helicopters will send twenty-four soldiers to the target location, attacking from the air and the ground, respectively, and four helicopters and twenty-five soldiers will be ready to support, and the U.S. troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan will be on standby, responsible for the evacuation after the worst-case scenario.
The US high-level meeting repeatedly discussed the issue, and finally US President Barack Obama finally approved the plan of action after a long period of entanglement, because there was no better opportunity than this, and in the past due to the hesitation and slow response of the top level, the opportunity was fleeting.
That night, twenty-four U.S. Navy SEAL soldiers took two Black Hawk helicopters to the mysterious compound that night, one landing in the open space of the courtyard to attack, and one responsible for air support.
However, as soon as it entered, there was an accidental scrapping of a helicopter, and the main problem with the "Black Hawk Fall" staged again was that the training was too lax.
Dropped airplanes
Previously, in order to succeed, the US military built a training ground exactly the same as the structure of the courtyard, but one thing was not taken into account, the perimeter of the training ground was a chain railing, and the wall of the courtyard was a thick earthen wall.
The heat emitted by the helicopter engine hit the earthen wall and caused a downward swirling well, and the pilot had no choice but to crash into the ground and force a landing. The loss of a helicopter, the transmission of the picture is also interrupted, this helicopter is responsible for air support as planned, this time the air support is not a thought, can only be attacked on the ground together.
Assassination of os-Dal bin Laden
After landing, the American soldiers encountered slight resistance, it was Bin Laden's "messenger" Ahmad and his brother Abera, they had two people, the U.S. army had more than twenty people, and the disparity in numbers was naturally not an opponent.
After eliminating the rebels, the iron gate exploded and rushed to the room on the third floor, and a young man who shot at the US troops was also killed, this person was Bin Laden's 22-year-old son Khalid, and such resistance was also futile.
Bin Laden, the horror tycoon who had been in hiding with the United States for more than a decade in the Tora Bora Mountains, was no longer as calm as he once was, perhaps he was older, or perhaps he really realized that he could not run away this time, and death was coming.
The American soldier who rushed into the room faced the mysterious owner of the courtyard and recognized the face he had seen repeatedly.
At this time, bin Laden had the AK-47 that he had been carrying with him like a crutch. However, things came too suddenly and uncertain that he had no chance to resist, and the American soldiers who rushed in shot at the key parts continuously.
After the "9/11 incident", President George W. Bush announced a reward of 25 million US dollars to hunt down bin Laden, and since then the bounty has been rising, countless mercenaries and bounty hunters want to make this money, and ten years later bin Laden was finally killed by the Americans.
After bin Laden was killed, the United States buried him in the North Arabian Sea with the aircraft carrier CARL Vinson, the specific sea area of which the United States did not disclose.
In February of the following year, the compound where bin Laden had been hiding for six years was demolished by Pakistani security forces.
It was demolished to the ground
This became a major event in Obama's first term, accumulating capital for his re-election, and the direct driver of this operation, CIA Director Panetta, was promoted to defense secretary within half a year, and americans were busy celebrating, but the United States did not get a real victory.
Although bin Laden was killed by the United States, the United States still could not get peace, and after bin Laden was killed, there were rumors that bin Laden had long ceased to participate in various affairs of "al-Qaida".
Al-Qaida number two, Zawahiri, then appeared and threatened to retaliate against the United States with a larger attack, which means that bin Laden's death would have little impact on al-Qaida and all terrorist forces that threaten the United States.
Zawahiri
The 1991 Gulf War, and later the War in Afghanistan in the name of counter-terrorism, on the surface it seems that the United States is fighting aggression and counter-terrorism, but a little digging can show that those who stand against the United States are supported by itself, and those things are also produced under the long-term influence of the United States.
The United States sows the seeds of turmoil and war to the world, constantly creating enemies for itself and constantly destroying them, with no end in sight.
Only when the world develops and the world's common prosperity can we move toward peace, and when everyone has food and clothing and everyone has something to do, no one is willing to live a day with today and no tomorrow, and the United States has chosen the wrong direction.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > references</h1>
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