Osama bin Laden's compound, known locally as the Waziristan Haveli, was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for militant leader Osama bin Laden, who was shot and k
View of the compound from the east (2011)
Left photo taken in 2004; right photo taken in 2011
View of the compound, looking north from the south side of a wall turning slightly northeast
Another view of the compound
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Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate
Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad
…romanized: Wazīristān Havelī, lit. 'Waziristan Mansion'), was a large, upper-class house within a walled compound used as a safe house for militant leader Osama bin Laden, who was shot and killed there by US forces on 2 May 2011. The compound was located at the end of a dirt road 1,300 metres (3⁄4 mile) southwest of the…
Bin Laden, c. 1997–1998
Muhammad bin Ladin, Osama's father
Entrance to the Dubai headquarters of the Saudi Binladin Group
Al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem