Raid on Osama bin Laden/Related Articles

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Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. ^[e]
Barack Obama [r]: 44th President of the United States of America (2009–2017) and a former Senator from Illinois (U.S. state) (born 1961). ^[e]

Killing of Osama bin Laden [r]: Legal and international politics aspects of the May 2011 raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden ^[e]

Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]
United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification ^[e]
- United States Navy SEALs [r]: [under]sea-air-land special operations organization of the United States Navy, specializing in direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and counterterrorism ^[e]
- 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joint Special Operations Command [r]: A major subordinate unit of the United States Special Operations Command, which takes on the most sensitive covert military operations, usually working unacknowledged within the geographic area of a Unified Combatant Command ^[e]
  - DEVGRU [r]: Formerly known as SEAL Team 6, a specialized and highly secret unit of United States Navy SEALs, within the Joint Special Operations Command ^[e]

Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. ^[e]
Stealth [r]: The popular term for a collection of techniques that make a military vehicle (air, space, land, sea, or undersea) hard to detect and harder to direct weapons against ^[e]
Leon Panetta [r]: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Obama administration; Member, Iraq Study Group; Chief of Staff in the Clinton Administration; former Member of Congress ^[e]