Osama bin Laden was a son of the Saudi elite whose radical violent campaign to recreate a seventh-century Muslim empire redefined the threat of terrorism for the 21st century.

With the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once reserved for dictators like Hitler and Stalin. He was a new national enemy, his face on wanted posters, gloating on videotapes, taunting the United States and Western civilization.

He was killed on May 2, 2011, by American military and C.I.A. operatives who tracked him to a compound in Pakistan.

In its initial account, the American government said that Bin Laden had been armed while taking part in the fierce firefight that broke out after a team of Navy Seals launched its assault. That was later revised to say that Bin Laden had been unarmed. The Seals shot him in a room on an upper floor, after a fierce gun battle with other operatives of Al Qaeda on the first floor, and after Bin Laden's wife "rushed the assaulter'' and was shot in the leg, according to a Defense Department statement. (Times source)

賓拉登，美國人民的頭號仇敵，五月二日在美國海軍２０人特種部隊的秘密進行攻擊下，中槍身亡。

１。人會選擇自己想看的看，眼見為憑就完全可靠嗎？

朋友交代我的事寫在紙條上了，我偏偏就漏看一小段，而且不只看一遍而已喔！每次看，就是沒看到那一段。

２。卸任的情報官員透露，被捕的恐怖份子是在極刑刑求下招供了賓拉登藏匿的住處。刑求是非人道的，這可以通融嗎？（value of torture)

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