STUFF.co.nz: One of Osama bin Laden's wives stood between him and US Navy Seals as the world's most-wanted terrorist was gunned down in an airborne assault on the al Qaeda leader's safehouse deep in Pakistan.He was holed up less than 1.6 kilometres from the country's military academy and not far from the capital of Islamabad.
Details emerged yesterday of the life and dramatic death of bin Laden, the day after President Barack Obama made the stunning announcement the al Qaeda leader had been killed.
Obama, while assured bin Laden probably was in the compound, did not know with certainty the 10-year hunt for the notorious son of a Saudi Arabian construction magnate was at an end. The realisation came when bin Laden's body was carried to one of four US Special Operations helicopters that had ferried in the American force deep inside Pakistan. One of the craft was damaged on landing and blown up before the return journey to Afghanistan. » | Tuesday, May 03, 2011
