May 2nd, 2011

 Osama Bin Laden is dead

The most wanted by EEUU, Osama Bin Laden was found and killed. Osama fled since 2001 and the monitoring operation lasted for months. Finally, on May 2th, 2011, Osama was caught and he died of a gunshot to the head.

According to the New York Times report, a prisoner at Guantanamo said the revealed the name of man who was confidential mail the leader of AL-Qaeda. He was searched, and at the end located in a high security residential complex, 55 Km from the capital of Pakistan. It was monitoring lasted eight months.

At first, the CIA watched complex, and CIA suspected that Osama Bin Laden could be in the complex. When U.S. President authorized the operation a team of military and U.S. intelligence agents jumped out the helicopter to the site.

In 45 minutes the operation was over. In the operation also killed three other men, possibly one of the sons of Bin Laden, and a woman. After that the body was indentified the intelligence services took the body to Afghanistan and there thrown overboard.

Firstly, a photograph was leaked to the press, the photograph showed Bin Laden’s corpse. But this was a manipulated photo. White House hasn’t been leaked pictures and videos of Osama Bin Laden’s body, although it says there.

When the news was known American patriotism broke. Americans took to the streets, people packed Times Square and Ground Cero. People were screaming with joy on the streets for the death of the most wanted man, the most hated man, Osama Bin Laden.

Like that ends an intense search of the leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Now U.S. and Europe are in alert for the possible retaliation by the organization. 

Leyre Hernández Sanz