GETTING BIN LADEN

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No American was yet inside the residential part of the compound.
The operatives had barely been on target for a minute, and the
mission was already veering off course. Photoillustration by John Ritter.

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A REPORTER AT LARGE

GETTING BIN LADEN

What happened that night in Abbottabad.
by Nicholas Schmidle

Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field,
in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were
twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or
DEVGRU. A Pakistani-American translator, whom I will call Ahmed, and a dog named Cairo—a Belgian Malinois—were also aboard.
It was a moonless evening, and the helicopters’ pilots, wearing night-vision goggles, flew without lights over mountains that
straddle the border with Pakistan. Radio communications were kept to a minimum, and an eerie calm settled inside the aircraft.
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A second SEAL stepped into the room and trained the infrared laser of his M4 on bin Laden’s chest.
The Al Qaeda chief, who was wearing a tan shalwar kameez and a prayer cap on his head, froze;
he was unarmed. “There was never any question of detaining or capturing him—it wasn’t a split-second
decision. No one wanted detainees,” the special-operations officer told me. (The Administration
maintains that had bin Laden immediately surrendered he could have been taken alive.) Nine years,
seven months, and twenty days after September 11th, an American was a trigger pull from ending bin
Laden’s life. The first round, a 5.56-mm. bullet, struck bin Laden in the chest. As he fell backward,
the SEAL fired a second round into his head, just above his left eye. On his radio, he reported,
“For God and country—Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.” After a pause, he added, “Geronimo E.K.I.A.”
—“enemy killed in action.”

Hearing this at the White House, Obama pursed his lips, and said solemnly, to no one in particular,
“We got him.”
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