Details from Osama bin Laden's New York Times' Obituary
Osama bin Laden‘s New York Times obituary went up Sunday night, almost immediately after President Obama announced that the Al Qaeda leader had been killed during a U.S. operations. And it’s a long one.
The obituary was written by writers Kate Zernike and Michael T. Kaufman, who actually died in 2010, before Bin Laden. Tim Weinger contributed reporting.
The article first details how long we have been searching for Bin Laden:
Long before Sept. 11… American officials considered Bin Laden at least in part responsible for the killing of American soldiers in Somalia and in Saudi Arabia; the first attack on the World Trade Center, in 1993; the bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; and a foiled plot to hijack a dozen jets, crash a plane into the C.I.A.
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