This Day in History: , Osama Bin Laden Is <br />Killed by US Forces.<br />May 2, 2011.<br />After an international <br />manhunt lasting nearly a <br />decade since the 9/11 attacks.<br />the 54-year-old Al Qaeda leader <br />was killed in a raid conducted <br />by a team of 23 U.S. Navy Seals.<br />The operation on Bin Laden's<br /> hideout compound in Abbottabad, <br />Pakistan, lasted 40 minutes.<br />President Obama addressed the nation <br />from the White House announcing <br />Bin Laden's death, saying, "Justice has been done.".<br />The mastermind of the deadliest terrorist attack <br />on U.S. soil had lived the final five years of his life <br />less than a mile from a Pakistani military academy.<br />President George W. Bush had declared <br />that Bin Laden would be captured dead or alive
