Inside the ransacked Pakistani mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed, blood was splattered on the floor, bed linens were in disarray, and ABC News captured it in photos and video, scoring the first big exclusive of the aftermath.
The morning after President Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special forces near Pakistan's capital of Islamabad, the network broadcast footage from inside the mansion on "Good Morning America." ABC correspondent Nick Schifrin, who has been stationed in Pakistan for years, appeared on the morning telecast and said that he had just returned from a tour inside the compound and reported that the pictures and video showed the Abbottabad compound where the raid took place.
"Looking at the video, it's a good TV moment," Schifrin said in a phone interview with the Los Angeles Times. "There's something about seeing it all for yourself."
HISTORY of OSAMA BIN LADEN
Place of birth: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Place of death: Abbottabad, Pakistan
Resting place :North Arabian Sea
Allegiance: Al-Qaeda
Battles/wars :Soviet war in Afghanistan
War on Terror: War in Afghanistan
* Battle of Tora Bora
*War in North-West Pakistan
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011)[1][2][3] was the founder of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was also a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family.
Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings.[4][5][6] From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden and his organization had been major targets of the War on Terror.
On May 1, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a raid of bin Laden's suspected location in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The operation was successfully carried out by United States Navy SEALs, with intelligence support from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[2][7] During the 40 minute raid, bin Laden was shot in the head by the SEALs, the wounds of which were fatal. The SEALs commenced with intelligence searches of the building after which his body was taken into custody. Genetic testing and facial recognition were performed to positively identify bin Laden and his body was deposited into the sea for burial less than 24 hours after death
during his childhood life of osama bin laden..
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,[12] the son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family,[13] and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas.[14] In a 1998 interview, he gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.[15]
Osama's parents divorced soon after he was born; Osama's mother then married Mohammed al-Attas. The couple had four children, and Osama lived in the new household with three half-brothers and one half-sister.[14]
Osama was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim.[16] From 1968 to 1976 he attended the "élite" secular Al-Thager Model School.[14][17] Osama studied economics and business administration[18] at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest Osama earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979,[19] or a degree in public administration in 1981.[20] Other sources describe him as "hard working,"] but having left university during his third year[22] without completing a college degree. At university, Osama's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad" and charitable work. He also wrote poetry.
In 1974, at the age of 17, Osama married Najwa Ghanem at Latakia. According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 Osama had married four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children.[26] Other sources report that he has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children.
Mohammed bin Laden was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing.[28] Osama's eldest half-brother, Salem bin Laden, the subsequent head of the bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas in the United States, when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines.
The FBI described Osama bin Laden as tall and thin, between 6'4" and 6'6" (193– 198 cm) in height and weighing about 165 pounds (75 kg). Interviewees of Lawrence Wright, on the other hand, describe him as quite slender, but not particularly tall. He had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane. He wore a plain white turban and no longer donned the traditional Saudi male headdress. Bin Laden was described as soft-spoken and mild mannered in demeanor.
Many of bin Laden's children went to Iran after the September 11 attacks and as of 2010 Iranian authorities reportedly continued to control their movement.
how did Google and Bing respond?- for osama bin laden death. (they act for making money)
On a comparison like this it is good to know what my starting point is, what am I looking for and what am I hoping to find when using Bing and Google? There are a few things I’m looking at:
- News: It off course is a current hot news item, so I want to know the latest news: is he really dead? What happened? Who killed him? Those kind of questions spring to mind.
- Videos and pictures: I want to see what is going on, so videos would be nice and off course we want to see pictures.
- History and related stuff: Why is this Osama Bin Laden so important? What makes it that people are dancing on the streets because he died?
- User friendliness: Finally friendliness, how nice is the page that I am looking at, did they “get” my user intent and is it showing me the stuff I want to see?
- Social: Finally we off course are looking for social integration. Have our friends noticed the news already?
The first look
News articles
So we start off early in the morning when the news has just broken. Google Trends doesn’t have any clue of what is going on at that time, but Google does. They have 13,3 million results ready for us, where Bing has 7.09 million. The search giant places a Google News block on top of the results. Bing not surprisingly does the same.
Google brings ‘only’ three major sources and then a lot of related articles after the click. They also show over 51000 realtime search results. That is, they are showing the link to the real time updates, not the updates themselves.
Almost four hours later: what has changed?
I took another look almost four hours later to see if the engines had changed anything. On both engines the results look similar to earlier this morning. The News-blocks are on top again, followed by the Wikipedia result.
Google still has five news related articles there, even though they are not all the same as this morning. Bing still only has one. But Bing does have the official Whitehouse page, with Obama’s statement on it there, which is a very nice move.
The biggest change definitely is on Bing and has everything to do with videos The “Videos of Osama Bin Laden” now shows four new videos. There is an ABC News video and three different videos with the President’s statement, from CNN, CNBC and Reuters. So Bing did a really good job there. What is interesting is that Bing seems to be placing the length of the video below it, but that actually is not the length, but the time the video was pushed out.
Social
osama bin laden Google social Search 300x115 Osama Bin Laden killed: how did Google and Bing respond?Finally the social aspect. First something I noticed on both search engines, which is not specific for this search, but something more in general. Both Google and Bing do not have a “share” option. Not for a specific result, but also not for the search in general.
When it comes to Bing’s results and social we can be very clear about that: there is nothing social here. No connections, no Facebook results (Why not? They have a deal with Facebook after all!) and no Twitter connection whatsoever.
Google has its social circle results in there. Even though it is pushed down to the bottom of the page, at least it is there.
User experience
Overall it again looks like Google and Bing are pretty close to each other. But also again the overall “feel” of the Bing results is better. They seem more up-to-date without them maybe actually being that much more up-to-date.
U.S. confirms the death of Bin Laden
The leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities.
The U.S. president, Barack Obama, confirmed the death of Osama Bin Laden in a televised appearance. The CIA operation took place on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Obama ordered the mission of a small intelligence operating on Pakistani soil when they had confirmed the status of bin Laden. The cooperation of the Pakistani terrorist forces has been essential, as said by U.S. President.
