Original version

BBC World Service Online

Assignment

Factual

Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.

Assignment: Mission Bin Laden

Documentaries

News

05/05/2011

Mission Bin Laden

BBC World Service - Assignment, Mission Bin Laden

The story of the operation that led the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

Rob Walker reports on the unfolding story of the operation that led the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.

On a moonless night on Sunday 1 May, four American military helicopters descended on a fortified compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan.  

Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. 

They succeeded and America's most exasperating manhunt was over. 

But how did the risky operation unfold both in Washington and in Pakistan?  

Rob Walker reports for Assignment.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Assignment

Mission Bin Laden

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service