Bin Laden: How They Got him - and this is happening to al-Qaeda now (Time.com)

Reports started coming in more than a month it y a: Osama bin Laden was in motion, and the United States have the eyes on him. Underlined by the turmoil sweeping its share of the world - tumult, he had no roll in Sparks - Ben Laden strives to enhance the credibility of al-Qaeda as young Tweeted and Facebooked on a future that involves him, or al-Qaida.

Surprisingly, he did not die a death Picot for fixation of an invisible Predator drone, as most would have waited. Instead, a team of us special operations forces transported in a deep composed the high wall in Pakistan and killed him and four others in an exchange of fire, including a son of bin Laden and a woman who would have been used as a human shield. (Pakistan is losing Patience in the war against terrorism?)

Sending a team of special forces to Pakistan made two things clear: the United States believes that his intelligence was solid, and he wanted the evidence he was dead; they wanted his corpse. One of the choppers involved in the dysfunction of the raid and was destroyed; No U.S. personnel was injured in the operation, which lasted about 40 minutes.

The comings and goings and out of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Deputy of Osama bin Laden, remain unknown. If the death of Osama bin Laden étincelles spasm of violence - or mark the end of al-Qaeda as one force powerful terror - also remains uncertain. Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born doctor, recently encouraged Muslims to fight against the United States and their allies in Libya. "I wish to draw the attention of our Muslim brothers in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and the rest of the Muslim countries, that if the Americans and NATO forces enter Libya then their neighbours in Egypt and in the rest of Muslim countries and Algeria and Tunisia should rise up and fight the two mercenaries of Gaddafi and the rest" NATO, "Zawahiri said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group."

There was a quiet Vertigo among the U.S. military later Sunday as Word began to spread that bin Laden had been killed. It is a consolation just to the survivors of the 3,000 killed that day from the end of the summer, but it represents reconfirms sweet nonetheless.

U.S. intelligence had learned that bin Laden could be hiding in a high wall composed in Abbottabad, some 50 miles northeast of Islamabad, last August. Basically, a suburb of the capital city, the wealthy city is home to many officers of the Pakistan Army retired. Which may explain the surround extraordinary secret operation: some senior officials in the Government of the United States knew such an operation was new and suspicious of it was not shared with the allies, including Pakistan. How the bin Ladens could reside within a posh for months, even years, surrounded by former officers of the army Pakistan remains unknown. (Pakistan - U.S. Border spat: crippling the Afghanistan campaign?)

Official says U.S. has an index key to uncover the bin Ladens learn the name of trustworthy courier, who led U.S. intelligence of the compound Sunday. After having emphasized the compound had a few electronic links to the outside world - and incinerated his trash, rather than to be picked up - Obama gives the green light week last for a raid of the helicopter in the enclosure. Bin Laden "did resist the assault force," the official of the U.S. said, but was shot in the head and killed "as" our operators came into the compound.

It would be churlish share, but specific, noting that he had escaped a manhunt throughout the world for almost a decade after subtracting a tightening, but net fraying, U.S. - Afghan in Tora Bora on the Afghanistan border and Pakistan in December 2001. Hundreds crowded around the White House to celebrate the disappearance of Osama bin Laden, it is also relevant to note that impact of Osama bin Laden reached a peak of 9/11 and has declined since then. Nevertheless, the symbolic impact of his death cannot be underestimated, either in the war against terrorism or the re-election of the Obama prospects.

The Pakistani shooting codified only that a younger generation, where women play a major role, has clearly: MAND was a force in a region led by autocrats of the 20th century; It was much less resonance among the cohort of young now support.

Pentagon officials have said that al-Qaeda has played only a minor role in Afghanistan in recent years. The Americans and their allies are mainly fight against the Taliban, a native force of Pashtun whose homeland straddles the Af - Pak border.

The death of Osama bin Laden only picks a tumour. Cancer he represented remains in large part of the world where local populations were forced to have not dom while their leaders have lived well. If his disappearance marks the end of a particularly virulent strain or trigger a violent recidivism, is unknown.