On May 1, 2011, the then US President Obama announced to the world media that the culprit of the "911 incident in the United States", the leader of Al Qaeda, bin Laden, had been killed by the United States.
This news detonated world public opinion at the time, and also changed many things. For example, the price of gold fluctuated violently that year, and international stocks and crude oil fluctuated high and low. These were all related to Bin Laden's death.
It can be said that bin Laden's death is like a passing hurricane, and the consequences are far from being as simple as the death of a person.
In fact, let alone others, even U.S. President Obama, who personally announced the news, felt so unreal about the news, because bin Laden, as the top ten most wanted fugitives announced by the FBI, has been at large for 10 years since he committed the "911" terrorist attacks in the United States.
In the past 10 years, the United States has used countless methods to kill bin Laden, but all have failed. For Americans, whoever can find a way to kill bin Laden will become an American hero. And Obama did it. He who planned this incident became a hero.
In fact, this matter was not easy for Obama. It can even be said that the 40 minutes from the time he sent people to assassinate bin Laden to the end of the mission were also a difficult 40 minutes for him.
Bin Laden and the United States
The United States calls itself the "world police", so a certain organization in the United States often publishes a ranking with the word "world" in front of it, as if it can represent the whole world.
The FBI in the United States is an agency like this. The FBI updates a list every year called "The World's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives."
The criminals on this list are all those who have committed particularly serious crimes but have never been caught. Everyone is famous in the underground world, and the first one on this list is bin Laden.
Bin Laden's full name is Osama bin Laden . He is an extremist terrorist and the leader of an extremist terrorist organization. In his hands, at least hundreds of lives have been contaminated. Among them, his most serious crime is that he organized and planned the 1998 US Embassy bombing and the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks.
If bin Laden blew up the American embassy to provoke and anger the United States, and to dance on the dignity of Americans, then the 911 terrorist attacks in 2001 were definitely the spread of terrorism.
The tragic death of nearly 3,000 people is enough to make bin Laden the most hated name among Americans.
But many people don’t know that if we push the time forward a decade or two, that is, around the 1980s, bin Laden and the United States were still in a friendly and close relationship at that time.
Bin Laden was born in 1957. He was the son of a wealthy family in the country of Saudi Arabia . He lived a very comfortable life in his youth.
However, Bin Laden’s personal life was not very good, because his family was so rich that Bin Laden’s father married many wives and had many descendants.
There are more than 50 bin Laden brothers and sisters. Bin Laden is ranked 17th. It can be said that he is inconspicuous. Moreover, he has a timid character and no masculinity, so he is not looked down upon by others.
When he was a child, he was often bullied by his family members, which made him have a very weird temperament since he was a child.
Bin Laden went to college in 1976, studying at the prestigious King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.
But Bin Laden did not finish college because his hometown of Saudi Arabia was covered by the shadow of war. That shadow was called the "Soviet Red Army."
After the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union’s leadership strategy changed from “securing territory” to “limited reclamation.” As a result, a united national government with the responsibility of protecting the participating countries began to invade other countries. In the late 1970s, the Soviet Red Army set foot on Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is rich in oil and gas resources, which is why the Soviet Union is jealous.
Saudi Arabia is an Islamic country. All citizens in the country are believers. When facing foreign enemies, these believers will unanimously turn outward and form various "jihadist organizations."
For almost ten years, Saudi Arabia was locked in a war against the Soviet Union. As a young man with endless money to spend, Bin Laden would naturally use money to fund the "jihad". He even later contacted the FBI and asked the United States to intervene to fight against the Soviet Red Army.
Americans have always been willing to wait until there is no profit. There is money to be made, and Americans never refuse. During that period, as the spokesperson of Saudi Arabia's exchanges with the United States, Bin Laden was harmonious and cooperative with the US military.
The change in the relationship occurred during another invasion war, and the leader of that war was Saddam.
Iraq led by Saddam owed the United States a large amount of money on credit and purchased new weapons and equipment from the United States. When it saw that its force was stronger, it wanted to bully others, so the war once again spread to neighboring countries, and was about to reach Saudi Arabia.
At this time, the United States, which claims to be the "world police", said it could help Saudi Arabia and drive the arrogant Saddam out of Saudi Arabia.
The United States is indeed powerful. It fought several battles with Saddam and used only tens of thousands of artillery shells to wipe out Saddam's army and take over the Gulf War .
The Gulf War lasted 42 days.
However, after the war, the United States withdrew its troops from Saudi Arabia hesitantly and slowly. It turned out that the United States helped Saudi Arabia drive away Iraq and Saddam Hussein, which was simply a drunkard's intention.
What the United States is interested in is actually Saudi Arabia’s oil profits.
But it is already impossible for the Saudi crown princes to politely ask the United States to leave at this time. The Americans have already shown their ambitions.
At this time, Bin Laden felt very sad in his heart. He felt that the Saudi royal family had repeatedly used the power of others to help them defeat powerful enemies, and wanted to send people away politely after using up their favors. Is this possible?
Bin Laden has been a loyal Muslim since he was a child. The existence of the sect makes it difficult for people like Bin Laden to tolerate the invasion of their country. On the contrary, the purity of the country is like a taboo in their eyes.
As a result, from then on, Bin Laden became disgusted with the hegemony of the United States and was determined to retaliate against the United States and let the United States have a taste of this.
And bin Laden’s plan was a terrorist attack.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists sent by bin Laden hijacked four American Airlines planes, No. 11, No. 175, No. 77, and No. 93, and crashed into the Twin World Trade Towers, the Pentagon, , resulting in the tragedy of nearly 3,000 deaths.
Among them, the terrorists even planned to control passenger plane 93 to crash into the White House of the United States. However, they failed due to malfunctions and the plane crashed prematurely.
This day is forever painful in the hearts of Americans.
Subsequently, the then US President George Bush ordered to invade Afghanistan and clear out the Taliban.
No news for ten years
The United States invaded Afghanistan just to overthrow bin Laden's lair.
Here we need to distinguish concepts, that is, the "Al Qaeda" organization is the "Al Qaeda" organization, and the "Taliban" is the "Taliban". Both organizations have a terrorist color, but the terrorist color of the Taliban comes from the fact that it harbored bin Laden and his "Al Qaeda" organization.
The Taliban itself is just an anti-government armed force.
When the President of the United States announced the launch of the Afghan war to eliminate the Taliban and bin Laden, Bin Laden believed that the United States would be like the Soviet Union, which would suffer a bloody blow in the Islamic world and eventually disintegrate.
In fact, bin Laden’s view now seems to have come true.
In the war in Afghanistan, the United States was stuck in a quagmire. It fought for more than ten years, and in the end, it spent too much money and was disgraced.
But after bin Laden mocked the United States, he went on the run.
Although the United States is unreliable, it mobilizes the entire NATO group to fight against terrorism. How could bin Laden withstand such power?
The United States used thunderous force to clear out the Taliban and Al Qaeda, but in the end, bin Laden was not caught.
Bin Laden went into hiding and was never found again.
Afghanistan is not a mountainous country with complex terrain. The plains are unobstructed. Bin Laden should have no place to hide, but as the saying goes, "Tiger hides in the mountains, dragon hides in the water." In the Islamic world, bin Laden fights locally. If the US military wants to find him, it must be more familiar with this area than him.
This is of course impossible, so the United States wanted to take revenge, but it lost its enemy and became sulky. As a result, it lasted for ten years.
In the past ten years, the United States has tried to "cast a wide net." They have cast a huge number of spies, investigators, and agents into Afghanistan and many surrounding countries. They have even acted like professionals from all walks of life in an attempt to dig out bin Laden.
The result was nothing.
In the past ten years, every one or two years, a video or news will appear saying that bin Laden is dead.
But Americans believe that this is a cover-up trick used by the living bin Laden. Bin Laden cannot die so easily. He must be personally sanctioned by the Americans.
As a result, exactly ten years have passed, and just when Americans were in despair and thought they would never be able to take revenge with their own hands, news about bin Laden unexpectedly appeared.
The Death of Bin Laden
How did Bin Laden, who had been hiding for more than ten years without anyone knowing his whereabouts, making people doubt whether he was still alive, be caught again?
It turns out that the CIA exhausted all methods and finally found a reliable source of information. This clue pointed to a senior cadre who was close to bin Laden when he was in Al Qaeda.
This senior cadre has been acting as a confidant and messenger during bin Laden's escape, conveying and retrieving information for him.
To put it bluntly, as long as we can follow this clue, we can reach bin Laden.
In 2011, the CIA finally grasped the traces of bin Laden. It turned out that this terrorist had been living in the bustling city of Pakistan , and judging from his hiding place, his quality of life should be pretty good.
The place where Bin Laden is hiding is a duplex villa. It looks ordinary on the outside, but it covers a large area and can only be afforded by the wealthy class.
In 2011, then-President Obama signed an attack order, and the operational unit that accepted the mission was the elite of the U.S. Special Forces , SEAL Team Six.
SEAL Team Six, this is the elite of the SEAL force famous for its amphibious maneuvers. It is well-equipped with weapons and performs the most precise tasks. Each member of them is like a precision part, with the ability to complete the task with a high degree of completion within the specified time.
SEAL Group Six
According to the plan formulated by the Special Operations Command, they had forty minutes to kill bin Laden and verify the mission time.
In order to cooperate with the actions of SEAL Team 6, Obama also spent a lot of money and approved them to use the most advanced stealth helicopter "Black Hawk" to carry out the mission.
UH-60 Black Hawk armed helicopter, also known as the "Silent Black Hawk", this helicopter uses silencing processing of the engine and propeller to make the Black Hawk as noisy as an ordinary car.
UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter
At this time in 2011, the "Silent Black Hawk" was still in the experimental stage, and the two Black Hawks equipped for the seals were only for temporary use.
On May 1, the operation started, and all senior U.S. military officials who knew about it gathered in the Special Operations Command Room, preparing to follow the entire operation in real time.
The picture is divided into several small split screens, which are transferred from the real-time recorders installed on the tactical helmets worn by the SEALs.
The picture is green, that is a night vision picture.
Through these pictures, you can clearly see the environment in which each SEAL team member lives and the dangers they face.
The SEALs are like silent outdoor anchors, operating silently in the moonless night.
Running thousands of miles to attack the target's heavily guarded residence, this is a mission with a near chance of death.
It can be said that if you are not careful, this "battlefield live broadcast" may turn into a bloody death live broadcast.
If these SEALs unfortunately die, they cannot leave any items that can prove their identity. They must die alone and silently outside the country.
This is the mission of SEAL Team Six, a highly secretive elite unit.
The operation almost failed as soon as it started. It turned out that due to a technical failure, a Black Hawk helicopter crashed, and the only ones who could be used to carry out the assassination mission were the SEALs on the other Black Hawk.
Fortunately, the six members of the Black Hawk 2 helicopter completed the invasion of bin Laden's residence and successfully killed bin Laden.
They even had plenty of time to compare the photos of bin Laden sent back by the Ministry of Defense. After verifying that they were correct, they took the body back to the plane and flew away.
The entire operation lasted less than the scheduled 40 minutes. Bin Laden, the demon executioner, was killed.
Conclusion:
Later, according to the SEALs’ witnesses, bin Laden, the terrorist leader, had three wives who took turns accompanying him during his years on the run. His daily life consisted of eating, sleeping, and watching CDs, because in the bedroom where Bin Laden was shot to death, there were all kinds of messy film and television discs scattered on the ground.
