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Article milestones Date Process Result May 2, 2011 Articles for deletion Kept October 14, 2011 Good article nominee Listed August 19, 2014 Peer review Reviewed A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on May 2, 2011. Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 2, 2012, May 2, 2016, May 2, 2021, and May 2, 2023. Current status: Good article

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"Additionally, Pakistani militant organizations, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban, vowed retaliation against the United States and against Pakistan for failing to prevent*ing* the American raid."

remove the starred "ing" Noeldowd (talk) 16:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done thanks. Skynxnex (talk) 16:35, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can change it from killing to “Assassination of Osama bin Laden” 2607:FEA8:425F:D600:DCF9:8139:118E:F7AC (talk) 18:06, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I agree as well. Makes it seem like his death was a bad thing. 2600:1015:B084:64DF:14FB:BBAA:D52A:6765 (talk) 15:05, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I came to the talk page to see if anyone else had suggested this. This is (by definition) an assassination. wiglett (talk) 17:44, 14 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was a long debate on this, including the definition of "assassination" and whether or not it applied here, in archive 3, and it was almost unanimously opposed on grounds of WP:NPOV. "Death" is a neutral term that doesn't favor one POV over the other. However long it's been is irrelevant. TheNomad416 (talk) 01:00, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the American Manhunt documentary, ep 3, Leon Panetta says "we identified, by looking at the clothesline, how many members of the [third] family were living there" as part of how they did their assessment of how many people were resident in the home, which is an interesting detail I hadn't come across before. wanted to mention it here. Cheers, jengod (talk) 21:07, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Osama Bin Laden marked deceased on FBI Ten Most Wanted List May 3 2011.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 17:03, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from a passing mention in the lead section, the intricacies of whether this event constitutes an extrajudicial killing are not addressed in-depth. For the time being, I have added a source[1] that discusses this, but don't have the time to dig in deeper. I encourage others that are interested to try to eke out how this should be added, as in my view there are more than enough sources to provide a nuanced analysis. CVDX (talk) 18:07, 28 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]