1) After a decade of hiding, Osama bin Laden got shot in the eye and killed by U.S. special forces on May 1st 2011. He was hiding in a massive compound less than a mile away from prestigious military academy in Pakistan. So it may seem that Pakistanis had been secretly hiding and protecting the bin laden for a long time while telling the American authorities that they did not know where the bin laden was.
2) Americans all over the world celebrated and rejoiced as the news of bin laden spread around the country. People gathered in thousands in and around World Trade Center site and Times Square in New York.
Americans celebrate bin ladens’s death in boston at night.
President Obama’s speech on bin laden’s death at white house.
