THEY couldn't have done it better – the killing of Osama bin Laden. In a daring, breathtaking and clinically lethal operation they cut him down right where he lived. The raid marks the passing of a long, bloody decade of war since the 9/11 horror. It comes as the great price of treasure and blood – about 6000 US combat deaths and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths – continues to be paid. But in August last year US intelligence finally unearthed the lead they had been so desperately seeking. It allowed them to track and hunt down the masterfully elusive al-Qaeda leader in a plush Pakistani mansion. From a base in wartorn Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama unleashed a strike…
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