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‘I’d Never Been Involved in Anything as Secret as This’
The plan to kill Osama bin Laden from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop as told by the people in the room.
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On the morning of May 1, 2011, most Americans had never heard of Abbottabad. By that night, the dusty midsize city near the mountains of northwest Pakistan was the center of the biggest story in the world. A team of U.S. Navy SEALs had just descended by helicopter on a high-walled mansion there in the dark of night, located the globe’s most hunted man and killed him.
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