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Osama Bin Laden Dead: A Look At The Abbottabad Mansion Where The Al Qaeda Leader Was Killed (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Osama Bin Laden Dead

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 05/02/11 10:00 AM ET Updated: 07/02/11 06:12 AM ET

Osama bin Laden was killed in his "mansion," according to the New York Times. Where did America's most wanted terrorist call home?

The compound was located in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, about two hours outside of Islamabad. According to the Times, while comfortable in some respects, the residents did take security seriously:

It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains where many had envisioned Bin Laden to be hiding. Rather, it was a mansion on the outskirts of the town's center, set on an imposing hilltop and ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.

The property was valued at $1 million, but it had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection. Its residents were so concerned about security that they burned their trash rather putting it on the street for collection like their neighbors.

The Times reports that the mansion was constructed in 2005. ABC has the following report, which looks inside the bloodied compound:


The Department of Defense released the following graphics and satellite photos of the Abbotabad compound:

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Video of New Yorkers reacting:





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Osama bin Laden was killed in his "mansion," according to the New York Times. Where did America's most wanted terrorist call home? The compound was located in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, abou...
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02:02 PM on 06/15/2011
AUCTION WINNER GETS TO KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN IN NEW COMIC BOOK SERIES.
Be known as the person that kills the world’s evilest terrorist.

http://sealteamx.com/press.htm
02:03 PM on 05/21/2011
I am not glad about a person dying,(Even though he deserved it) but still, on the bright side, USA!! USA!! USA!! USA!! USA!!
12:22 PM on 05/07/2011
The truth behind the killing of Osama bin Laden

http://www.ayoubox.com/2011/05/05/the-truth-behind-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden/
10:06 AM on 05/06/2011
Seems to me the video shows more than shooting a man. The bed is in disaray mastress and sheets scatered blood on all parts of the floor. The whole room is a mess. Looks like they might have had a little fun with him before they murdered him.
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BlackYowe
I am a classical- liberal woman and a Jeweler.
04:09 PM on 05/06/2011
They were looking for stuff after they killed everyone.
06:52 AM on 05/06/2011
So relieved to hear the news. Obama should be dancing now. Says he has eliminated the mayour of Abbottabad. Sounds like some place in a computer game :;
http://www.skipser.toolsbysk.com/p/2/p/general/obama-ousted-osama-as-the-mayor-of-abbottabad.html
07:44 PM on 05/05/2011
On Thursday morning, Google Earth updated their satellite photos of the Abbottabad area where the Bin Laden compound was located. The new images show major enhancements to the compound since the previous 2006 images, including extensions to the original walls and several outbuildings and sheds. The compound location is 34 deg 10'09.33"N 73 deg 14'33.33"E.
04:42 PM on 05/05/2011
Maybe he was like most Americans before the Housing Bubble burst, bought more house than he could afford to furnish, hence the IKEA bed.
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me again
I'm not wrong....
09:06 AM on 05/05/2011
Perhaps mansion is the wrong word, how about giant oversized hovel instead?
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noteaforme
The Tea Party parties like it's 1399.
08:08 AM on 05/05/2011
Republicans: Bush congratulated Obama. Can't you at least rise to the level of graciousness as your hero?
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Romeover
Civilization is for weaklings.
06:34 AM on 05/05/2011
Lifestyles of the Sick and Fugitive.
04:48 AM on 05/05/2011
So, did anyone display a photo of Bin Ladens kidney dialysis machine? If not, that is yet another piece of evidence to support the conclusion this whole operations was a fraud to distract from the obviously fake Obama birth certificate posted by the whitehouse.
05:49 AM on 05/05/2011
Off topic but why do you think President Obama birth certificate is fake?
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Bobcaaat
Simplify and Minimize
09:14 AM on 05/05/2011
Congatulations, I haven't heard this from the right edge yet. Was this mentioned on Beck or Limbaugh? I doubt that you came up with it yourself.
05:20 AM on 05/06/2011
It was blatantly obvious. See above.
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04:48 AM on 05/05/2011
Did Pakistan deliberately ignore bin Laden's presence? Editorial cartoonists poke fun at the country's claims of ignorance. http://eightfits.blogspot.com/2011/05/with-friends-like-pakistan.html
VictoriasNoSecret
Success: the byproduct of doing what's right.
04:40 AM on 05/05/2011
The place was little more than shelter from the elements. To embellish on that would be nonsense.
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ponyloco
citizen @ large
01:48 AM on 05/05/2011
i'm not exactly sure why people keep calling this a mansion...

more like a vertical hovel...
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me again
I'm not wrong....
09:06 AM on 05/05/2011
McHovel.....
12:57 AM on 05/05/2011
I have written a response to the death of bin Laden for my own website, the Inductive, which references this article. I’m wondering if I am correct in my assertion that the death of bin Laden serves more than anything as an opportunit­­y to clearly perceive the nature of U.S. involvemen­­t in the Middle East.

There is more on the death of Osama bin Laden and metanarrat­­ive at:

http://www.theinductive.com/blog/9-11-nine-years-later-america-finds-itself.html