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Official portrait of President Barack Obama (2009)
Official portrait of President Barack Obama (2009)

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Barack Obama

Also called: Obama

44th President of the United States (2009–2017) and the first African American president, who approved the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden

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    2011Killing of Osama bin Ladencommander

    Early on 2 May 2011 US Navy SEALs flown in by helicopter from Afghanistan killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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  • Osama bin Laden1957 – 2011

    Saudi-born Islamist extremist who founded and led al-Qaeda from 1988 and ordered the September 11 attacks; killed by US forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011

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  • The September 11 Attacks1988 – 2014

    Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the four airliners hijacked on the morning of 11 September 2001 and the fall of the twin towers, the closing of the American sky, twenty years of war in Afghanistan and the death of bin Laden, and the memorial pools in the towers’ footprints