How Bin Laden was killed

<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> <!-- Below is the AtContent repost button code. Please don't delete or change it in any way. --> <script async="true" src="https://w.atcontent.com/-/5ggvnIbmaO5/tech09/1Z6NXGKT5LX.text/Panel/Autocheck"></script>

How Bin Laden was killed

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<div class="innerbox"> <div style="width: 10px; float: left;"> </div> <div class="storybox"> <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="Allowed to masturbate at work" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8461337.cms" title="Allowed to masturbate at work" width="340" /></div> <div class="strytext"> <h3>Allowed to masturbate at work<span class="stryimgsep"></span></h3><span>A Brazilian woman has won the legal right to masturbate at office to relieve her from the pressure. 36-year-old Ana Catarian Bezerra, began to have problems at work because she believed that the only way to escape the anxious moments was to masturbate. But now, after winning a court battle and seeking professional medical help, she is allowed to masturbate and watch porn. "It got so bad I would masturbate up to 47 times a day. That's when I asked for help,"she said. She is prescribed a ‘cocktail’ of tranquillizers due to which now she has to masturbate only 18 times a day.<br /><br /></span><h3>Porn-parody film on Osama</h3><img align="left" alt="Porn-parody film on Osama" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8461317.cms" title="Porn-parody film on Osama" width="340" /> <br /><span>Slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden will be parodied in a porn film, which will hit the market in the summer. Laden was shot dead by CIA marksmen during a raid on his compound in Pakistan earlier this month and now filmmakers at Hustler Video are set to lampoon bin Laden's life in ‘This Ain’t Bin Laden Xxx’. Operatives found a collection of porn magazines at his home after the assassination. "We’re pretty sure from what we’ve heard that bin Laden was a big fan of Hustler. He was looking at porn, now porn is looking at him. See, it all comes full circle," a spokesman for Hustler Video joked.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3>Ronald Reagan’s daughter poses naked at 58<br /></h3><br /><div style="width: 10px; float: left;"> </div> <div class="strytext"><img align="left" alt="Ronald Reagan’s daughter poses naked at 58" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8461311.cms" title="Ronald Reagan’s daughter poses naked at 58" width="340" /><span>In this month’s issue of More magazine, Ronald Reagan’s daughter strips down for the camera. She is 58. This isn’t the first time Patti Davis has been photographed naked. At 42, she posed for Playboy. And while posing nude isn’t exactly a novel idea, her thoughts on body image — particularly as a recovering addict — are. She says, "I’ve now learned to respect time as the precious commodity that it is, and I’ve learned to respect my body. I’ve learned to stand in front of the mirror and look at the strength reflected there".<br /><br /><br /></span><h3>FB users’ fury over gigolo-advertisements</h3><br /><div class="innerbox"> <div style="width: 10px; float: left;"> </div> <div class="storybox"> <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="FB users’ fury over gigolo-advertisements" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8461304.cms" title="FB users’ fury over gigolo-advertisements" width="340" /></div> <div class="strytext"> <span>Facebook surfers have protested against gigolos who have found the social networking site as a new tool to hunt for new customers. A gigolo going by the name of ‘Billy’ sent a short message to his Facebook message box, offering oil massage and sex as well as dinner and other services. Billy and many other male prostitutes had posted advertisements for sexual services on the social networking site. Billy's Facebook page introduces himself as a tall and slim 27-year-old Chinese-Korean with a well-sculptured body and only serves women.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><br /><h3>Naked fugitive hides in hospital ceiling</h3><div style="width: 10px; float: left;"> </div> <div class="stryimg"><img align="left" alt="Naked fugitive hides in hospital ceiling" border="0" height="308" src="http://www.indiatimes.com/photo/8461289.cms" title="Naked fugitive hides in hospital ceiling" width="340" /></div> <span>A man in New Zealand caused a 7-hour police hunt after he escaped from custody and climbed into the ceiling of an Auckland hospital's emergency department. Half a dozen patients had to be moved out of the area where the man was caught. The 25-year-old was discovered in the roof space of the hospital and was dragged out of the confined space about 3.45 p.m. by one of several police officers. However, when he was recaptured, he was naked as he had lost his hospital gown earlier in the day. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.indiatimes.com/picture-stories/cheeky-news-of-the-week/Allowed-to-masturbate-at-work/photostory/8461337.cms">http://www.indiatimes.com/</a><br /></div><br /><br /></div></div></div> <!-- Below is the AtContent repost button code. Please don't delete or change it in any way. --> <script async="true" src="https://w.atcontent.com/-/6Cmq_Oe6jaW/tech09/7zIrSWkZnHP.text/Panel/Autocheck"></script>

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