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<div style="width:10px;float:left;"> </div>  <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="It took years to find him but just minutes to kill him" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8145423.cms" title="It took years to find him but just minutes to kill him" width="340" /></div>  <h3>It took years to find him but just minutes to kill him<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>The  trail that led the CIA to Osama bin Laden began with his most trusted  courier. It had taken the CIA years to discover  first his name and then  the home where he was hiding the al-Qaida leader. But it took only 40  minutes for US special forces  to kill both the courier and Bin Laden.  After 9/11 the CIA chased various leads about Bin Laden's inner circle,  in particular  his couriers. One of these couriers came in for special  attention. He was said to be a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the   9/11 mastermind, and one of the few couriers Bin Laden trusted.<br /></span> <div style="width:10px;float:left;"> </div>  <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="Bin Laden courier led CIA on four-year chase" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8145419.cms" title="Bin Laden courier led CIA on four-year chase" width="340" /></div>  <h3>Bin Laden courier led CIA on four-year chase<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>Two  years ago, the CIA found the rough location where the courier and his  brother lived in Pakistan, and on August last year  they narrowed it  down to a compound in Abbottabad, an affluent area about 35 miles north  of Islamabad. They realised  immediately this was no normal residence.  The walls of the 3,000 sq ft compound were 12-18ft high. There were two  security  gates, and access to the compound was severely restricted.  Built around five years ago, it was valued at about $1m but had no   phone or internet connection. </span><br /><div style="width:10px;float:left;"> </div>  <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="Found in a mansion, not a cave" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8145415.cms" title="Found in a mansion, not a cave" width="340" /></div>  <h3>Found in a mansion, not a cave<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>Suspicions  were aroused by the fact that the residents of the compound burned  their rubbish rather than putting it out for  collection. Salman Riaz, a  film actor, said that five months ago he tried to film next to the  house, but was told to stop by two men. "They told me that this is  forbidden in Islam," he said. By Sept, the CIA had determined there was a   'strong possibility' that the hideout was Laden's, and by Feb, they  were confident. On 29 April, while the world's  attention was on the  royal wedding in London, Obama gave the order to mount an operation.</span><br /><div class="innerbox"> <div style="width:10px;float:left;"> </div> <div class="storybox"> <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="What really happened in Abbottabad?" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8145413.cms" title="What really happened in Abbottabad?" width="340" /></div> <div class="strytext"> <h3>What really happened in Abbottabad?<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>At  around 1.15am local time on Monday, Abbottabad residents became aware  that something was happening. "Helicopter hovering  above Abbottabad at  1am (is a rare event)," tweeted one local, Sohaib Athar  (@ReallyVirtual); following that some minutes  later by: "A huge window  shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of  something nasty :-S" "I heard a  thundering sound, followed by heavy  firing. Then firing suddenly stopped," said a local resident, Mohammad  Haroon Rasheed.  "Then more thundering, then a big blast," he said.<br /><br /></span> <div class="innerbox"> <div style="width:10px;float:left;"> </div> <div class="storybox"> <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="Osama bin Laden operation" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8145408.cms" title="Osama bin Laden operation" width="340" /></div> <div class="strytext"> <h3>Osama bin Laden operation<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>Senior  officials say that Bin Laden 'resisted' during a gun battle. He died  from a bullet to the head. He was identified by facial recognition. The  al-Qaida courier, his brother and one of Bin Laden's sons were also  killed. Informed  immediately, Obama spoke to former presidents George  Bush and Bill Clinton. Keith Urbahn, the former chief of staff to Bush's   defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, gave the first public indication of  the news, tweeting: "So I'm told by a reputable person  they have  killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.indiatimes.com/picture-stories/how-bin-laden-was-killed/It-took-years-to-find-him-but-just-minutes-to-kill-him/photostory/8145423.cms">http://www.indiatimes.com/</a><br /></span></div></div></div><br /></div></div></div>

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How Bin Laden was killed

It took years to find him but just minutes to kill him The trail that led the CIA to Osama bin Laden began with his most trusted cour...