HELICOPTERS descended out of darkness on the most important counter-terrorism mission in US history. It was an operation so secret that only a select few US officials knew what was about to happen.

Osama bin Laden was hiding in a two-storey house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying US anti-terror forces swooped in the early morning hours.

Osama bin Laden was hiding in a two-storey house 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy when four helicopters carrying US anti-terror forces swooped in the early morning hours.

About 2,000 people gathered today for the funeral of the defiant cleric killed in the army assault on Islamabad’s Red Mosque, while dozens of suspected militants were placed in temporary graves in Pakistan’s capital.