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The Pentagon Tells Gizmodo It Has No Osama Raid Evidence

Months ago, I asked the Pentagon for its visual records of Osama bin Laden’s sea burial under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I received a thick packet of No — a complete denial that any records exist. Read it.


May 19, 2011
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Secret Stealth Drones Spied On Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above.


May 8, 2011
Geek Out

Obama Cracks Wise After The Operation To Find Bin Laden

Tensions were high during the decision-making process that would lead up to the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Success depended on the precision of the Navy SEALs team in order to kill this slaughterer of thousands.


May 2, 2011
Online

Someone Live-Tweeted The Osama Bin Laden Raid Without Knowing It

How does someone unknowingly live-tweet the biggest news story of the weekend (sorry royal wedding), if not the decade? @ReallyVirtual knows. The IT consultant was just “taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops,” when he heard a helicopter, then a “huge window shaking bang,” and then the helicopter going down. Reading his tweets, it’s obvious he had no idea what was going on—nor how life-defining that moment would be for so many people.


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This Was Osama’s Hideout

Osama bin Laden’s dead. But before we offed him, he was camped out in a Pakistani mansion—and in typical internet speed, it’s already mapped on Google. The pinpoint can’t be verified, but if true, it’s odd—police station neighbours? [The Atlantic]