Why did the US kill Osama bin Laden?

(CNN) Here are some facts about the death of Osama bin Laden. On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is killed by US Special Forces during an early morning (approximately mid-afternoon on May 1 in the United States) raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan. read more

Other HVI raids had encountered suicide vests and belts. Combined with bin Ladin’s public proclamations that he would not be taken alive. read more

Bin Laden was killed by the US because he orchestrated the September 11 attacks on the USA and because he is the leader of Al-Qaeda Bin Laden was considered responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11 2001. read more

Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden In a dramatic late-night broadcast on May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announces that the U.S. military and CIA operatives have located and killed the Al Qaeda leader in a nighttime raid on a compound in Pakistan where he had been hiding. read more