Title: Osama Bin Laden Death Raid

Date: May fifth, two- thousand and eleven

Written by: Alec Stockton Finke

            Osama Bin Laden is known as a very evil, terrible human being here in the United States of America and all over the world. On the day of September eleven, two- thousand and one; the Al Qaeda leader plotted out a terrorist attack on America. On that morning, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. Two of those jet airliners were intentionally crashed in to the “Twin Towers” or the “World Trade Center” located in New York City, New York. The two tallest buildings in New York City collapsed within two hours, killing two thousand, seven hundred and fifty two innocent, American citizens.

            One of the other planes crashed in to The Pentagon located in Arlington, Virginia just outside of the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. This attack killed another one hundred and eighty four people. Lastly, the fourth plane was attempting to crash in to the White House located in Washington D.C. This attempt failed due to the passengers on the plane. The passengers tried to take over control of the aircraft and it ended up crashing in to a large field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. There were no survivors from any of the flights.

            This was the most tragic, horrible terrorist attack America has ever gone through. This killed more American citizens and did more damage to our country than any other attack. This scarred a lot of lives and this was a terrible thing we had to go through.

            The master mind to this attack was the Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. This attack led to war over in Iraq and Afghanistan. This war has been the longest America has ever fought in a war. We have been fighting and looking for Osama for ten years now. This is an unbelievable fact; but, on the day of May first, 2011. Osama was killed by American Navy SEALs and taken in to U.S. possession. The United States have been waiting for this day to come ever since the morning of that horrific attack. When our president, Barack Obama announced “Osama is dead.” Hundreds of U.S. citizens rallied around Washington D.C. waving their American flags and celebrating over this man’s death.

            President Obama called for a last-second press conference on the night of the killing of Osama. He released some information about the situation on how it happened and it was pretty interesting.

            This was the biggest counterterrorism mission in U.S. history and it was one of the most secretive as well. Very few U.S. officials knew what was about to happen.  The location of the attack was at a fortified compound in a popular Pakistani town. There was 18 foot walls topped with barbed wire surrounding this compound and there were two security gates which was the only way to enter the multi-million dollar compound. U.S. officials knew this had to be a hide out for some terrorist but they could not figure out who it was. They thought and thought about it and every conclusion on who it could be was Osama, They knew it had to be the Al Qaeda leader. So President Obama planned secretly and heavily for a good eight months before the actual attack.

            After heavy training and tremendous focus and determination by the small group of Navy SEALs, on April 29, Barack Obama approved the operation to kill Osama. The Navy’s elite SEAL Team Six flew in to the town of Pakistan in two helicopters. One ended up crashing tdue to mechanical failures and they had to destruct the aircraft for their protection. After they waited for about forty minutes, the stealthy entered the building and attacked Osama. After a “fire fight,” Osama was killed including three others, and one of those three was his son and another was a woman that Osama threw in front of him as protection.

            Americans have been waiting ten years for this day and it has finally come. This will always be known as one of the greatest military operations in American Hisory.