Secret images show ‘kill shot’

STILL-SECRET photos of the dead Osama bin Laden show a precision kill shot above his left eye and images of his body are “gruesome”, a US officials said, as fresh details emerged of the audacious American raid that netted potentially crucial al-Qaida records as well as the body of the global terrorist leader.

Patience and persistence — characteristics normally attributed to al-Qaida — proved decisive in America’s decade-long hunt for bin Laden, whose fate was sealed in 40 minutes of thunderous violence, years in the making.

According to the US account, the assault team came away with hard drives, DVDs, documents and more that might tip US intelligence to al-Qaida’s operational details and perhaps lead the manhunt to the presumed next-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri. The CIA is already going over the material.