Hit squad swooped for bin Laden in pre-dawn raid

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.

Hit squad swooped for bin Laden in pre-dawn raid

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.

Flames rose from the building that was the apparent target of the raid as it was confirmed that the world’s most wanted fugitive died not in a cave, but in a town best known as a garrison for the Pakistani military.

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