Operation Neptune Spear was the United States raid on 2 May 2011 in which Navy SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Approximately 79 commandos, flown in by helicopters of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, assaulted the compound in a raid lasting roughly 40 minutes, ending a decade-long manhunt. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Operation TypeSpecial-forces raid (targeted killing) 1 LocationBin Laden compound, Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 1 ParticipantsU.S. Navy SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU), 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, CIA Special Activities Division 1 ObjectiveLocate and kill Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda and organizer of the September 11 attacks 1 OutcomeOsama bin Laden was killed along with four others; one U.S. helicopter was lost in a hard landing without casualties; bin Laden's body was buried at sea 1 Operation Type
Operation Type (category)Special-Forces Operation 1 Connections
Associated With
Operation Neptune Spear, the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, grew out of the same War on Terror campaign as the War in Afghanistan
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Commanders and Forces
Operation Neptune Spear was carried out by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six
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In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Pakistan, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Operation Neptune Spear
WikipediaOperation Neptune Spear section
Operation Neptune Spear was launched from about 120 miles away, near the Afghan city of Jalalabad.
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