Bin Laden Killed After Wife Rushed Commando, U.S. Says
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Osama bin Laden’s wife rushed at the U.S. commando who cornered the al-Qaeda leader on an upper floor of his Pakistan compound and she was shot in the leg before bin Laden was killed, according to an account released today by the White House.
The new narrative fills in more details and corrects some elements of earlier administration accounts about the secret raid on the terrorist leader’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, an affluent suburb of Islamabad that also is home to the Pakistan Military Academy and retired military officers.