Abbottabad Where Osama Bin Laden Was Shot Dead

Abbottabad Where Osama Bin Laden Was Shot Dead

May 3, 2011

Osama Bin Laden, evading security forces hiding for a decade was caught and in killed by American Special Forces in Abbottabad, 50 miles off Islamabad in Pakistan on Sunday after midnight.

Abbottabad is located in the Hazara region of province Khyber Pukhtoonkhwah at a distance of 93 miles east of its capital Peshawar at an altitude of 4,120 feet above the sea.

The location surrounded by beautiful green hills was founded and built into a township by Major James Abbott, the British Deputy Commissioner of Hazara district during 1849 to 1853 when the sub-continent was under British rule. The town was named after him as Abbotabad. The population is a little over 121,000 of people with main linkage to Rawalpindi region. Most of the people can speak Pushto and Punjabi having their own mother tong of mixed pushtu-punjabi.

Abbottabad is locked into the surroundings of Surban Hills on all four sides and is famous for the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul funtioning in line of Sandurst, Saint-Cyr, and West Point.

 However the town of Abbottabad is under civilian control headed by a Nazim (Deputy Commissioner) while the security is managed by police.

The building which was raided by US forces to kill OBL Saturday- Sunday night is about 100 meter away from the Kakul military academy. Most of the Pakistani people are stunned to know Osama Bin Laden was hiding there.  

Osama Bin Laden was killed in the raid and was hurriedly thrown into the sea, something strange raising many questions the US has to address.

US officials have issued a drawn up map of the building where ODL was hiding and the map has hit most of the newspapers.