The Killing of Osama bin Laden
By - Ethan Lyons
Have y’all ever realized how much danger and worry Osama bin Laden has caused on the world? Well if you read what I typed down below you’ll come to realize that he was a very dangerous man. He costed us trillions of dollars, over the years, just to find and kill him. He was the leader of a very very dangerous terrorist group, al-Qaida. He just wasn’t a pleasant man at all, but in other eyes like the people that worked for him he was a smart guy that knew what was right.
Osama Bin Laden was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed Bin Laden. In 1988 he created the group called al-Qaida and focused more on terrorist acts than military campaigns. He was the person responsible of the bombings of the U.S Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and he also lead the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 1st 2001. Eventually on May 1, 2011,after being on the FBI’s “most wanted list”, Osama Bin Laden was invaded at his compound in Islamabad, close to Pakistan, and killed by American soldiers.
He lived in a very high security compound, about a mile from the Pakistan Military Compound, which is why it was so difficult to kill him. He lived on the second and third floor of the house which was also surrounded by 12-18 foot walls with barbed wire on the top of them, plus two security gates. That’s partially the reason why it
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It showed the world that we could accomplish what we wanted despite the acts the other group or person has done and despite how hard it might be. Us killing Osama bin Laden after all of the terrorist acts he did on us like 9/11 and the bombings of the U.S embassies changed a whole lot of stuff especially stuff like our foreign-policies and defense spending which is another reason why us killing Osama bin Laden was a great time in American