Navy SEALs rappel down ropes to the street below. PAF controllers at Air Defence Command in Chaklala track the US CAP and AWACS in Afghan airspace, but log the activity as routine.Īpproximately an hour and ten minutes after leaving Jalalabad, the US helicopters arrive at the compound in Abbottabad’s Nawan Sheher neighbourhood. The Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) radar is on “peacetime deployment”, and low-level coverage is sparse on the western border. In the skies on the Afghan side of the border, US aircraft maintain a Combat Air Patrol (CAP) and an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) presence, in order to respond swiftly to any Pakistani military response to the raid. ![]() All four fly along the route of the River Kabul, above Chakdarra to Kala Dhaka, where one touches down, ready to provide refuelling and additional support to the Navy SEALs now en route to their target in Abbottabad. They are closely followed by two other helicopters, mostly likely Chinooks. The Black Hawks, coated with special radar-evading paint and panels, as well as noise suppression devices, fly low and fast, entering Pakistani airspace in the Khyber tribal area between 11:15pm and 11:30pm. About 250km away, at a US airbase in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the rotor blades of two stealth Black Hawk helicopters begin to turn. ![]() ![]() Near to her is her husband, Osama bin Laden. Amal Ahmad Abdul Fattah al-Sadah, a 29-year-old Yemeni woman, sits with her three-year-old child, Hussain, in a second-floor bedroom. It is ten minutes past eleven in the evening. Keep reading list of 2 items list 1 of 2 Military failures revealed by Bin Laden raid list 2 of 2 Bin Laden raid reveals ‘state failure’ end of list
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