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How SEAL Team Six ended the ten year hunt for bin Laden — Abbottabad, 2011 — RAIDERS Part 5 of 5

History Onion · Part 5 The Apex · 2:33

9/11 unleashed the secret army America had forged from the Desert One disaster — and for ten years it hunted one man. A single courier led the CIA to a walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. On 2 May 2011, two stealth Black Hawks flew SEAL Team Six in under the radar; one came down hard in the courtyard, but the SEALs cleared the building floor by floor and found Osama bin Laden on the third floor. Forty minutes later they were gone. The finale of RAIDERS — from a glider on an Italian mountain in 1943 to a compound in Pakistan: the raid that can reach anyone, anywhere. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and sources are historically verified. #shorts #history #NavySEALs #binLaden #SpecialForces #Raiders #NeptuneSpear

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