Barack Obama: Speech after the Killing of Osama bin Laden

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Barack Obama: Speechafter the Killing ofOsama bin Laden
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On May 2, 2011, Navy SEAL Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They then identified the corpse and dumped it in the Arabian Sea. The Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), passed by Congress in 2001, justified the operation. President George W. Bush had been tracking bin Laden’s whereabouts for years but was not able to locate him. When President Barack Obama did, the United States managed to keep the plans for the mission that would kill bin Laden completely secret.

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