The Last Days of Osama bin Laden
Revelations from the Abbottabad files show a terrorist leader scrambling for relevance in a world that had moved on
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July 30, 2021
Peter Bergen wrote for the Wall Street Journal on Osama bin Laden's last days.
Bin Laden never did find a new hiding place, however. He was killed, along with his son, Khalid, his two bodyguards and one of their wives, when U.S. Navy SEALs raided the compound on May 2, 2011. The operation not only rid the world of a terrorist mastermind; it recovered some 470,000 computer files from a trove of ten hard drives, five computers and around one hundred thumb drives and disks.