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August 23, 2012 The SEAL's book claims to be an inside account of the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader. Woodward's book will focus on the efforts of the Obama administration and Congress to get the economy going.

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May 23, 2012 Shakil Afridi was recruited by the U.S. to try to collect DNA samples from the al-Qaida leader or his family members, to prove that bin Laden was in Pakistan. A local court in Pakistan's tribal areas has convicted him of treason.

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May 1, 2012 Journalist Peter Bergen outlines the decade-long search for the al-Qaida leader in his new book Manhunt. Bergen is the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before it was razed by the Pakistani government.

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April 27, 2012 Next Wednesday marks one year since U.S. Navy SEALs raided Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed the al-Qaida leader. His three wives, children and grandchildren have been sent to Saudi Arabia.

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April 2, 2012 The three women and two of bin Laden's older daughters were convicted of living illegally in Pakistan. Two of the wives are thought to be from Saudi Arabia, one from Yemen. They've all been fined about $114 each as well.

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March 30, 2012 His youngest wife has given investigators the most detailed account yet of where the al-Qaida leader was in the years between the 2001 terrorist attacks and his death in May 2011, The New York Times reports.

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June 16, 2011 Osama bin Laden's longtime No. 2 assumes the leadership position in the wake of the al-Qaida leader's death.

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May 31, 2011 From its earliest days, al-Qaida leaders insisted on receipts for everything from floppy disks to explosives. Experts say that was the influence of Osama bin Laden, who earned an undergraduate degree in economics and public administration. That obsession with record-keeping has come back to haunt the organization.

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May 27, 2011 Even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling the killing of Osama bin Laden a "turning point" in U.S.-Pakistani relations, many there are insisting that the al-Qaida leader is still alive.

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May 26, 2011 According to The Washington Post, the team will be looking for materials that the al-Qaida leader and his follows might have hidden at the site.

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May 18, 2011 Saif al-Adel is "a seasoned operator, he has experience, he has the bona fides within the organization," one expert tells NPR.

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May 17, 2011 Anatol Lieven, author of the new book Pakistan: A Hard Country, argues that Pakistan has been hurt more by the ongoing war on terrorism than it's been helped by billions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

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