Bin Laden: Dead or alive

October 05, 2012 02:07

Book review of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden.

The essential facts of Osama bin Laden's demise'"that he was shot dead by US Navy SEALs in a house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during the early hours of May 2, 2011, local time'"have been reliably established and stand beyond reasonable doubt. For many Americans and victims of al-Qaeda's violence worldwide, they are the only facts that will ever matter. Bin Laden planned and funded terrorism operations that killed many hundreds of civilians not only in New York and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001, but also in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

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