How the CIA Found Osama bin Laden

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Published 2023-01-16
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A closer look at how the CIA was able to track down Osama Bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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All Comments (21)
  • @OriginalRMG
    This is why cable TV is dying, when you have creators like neo who create professional amazing documentaries like this. Keep up the fantastic work bae.,
  • Not only is this an insanely well produced video, it’s invaluable content to history. They don’t teach raw modern history in schools like this. Big ups
  • @0p41
    I was a little kid so I never quite grasped just how monumental it was finding this guy. I thought he lived in some underground hideout in the middle of nowhere, but he really was living in a luxurious home? And the Ibrahim guy unknowingly led the forces straight there, what a wild goose chase.
  • @fiszicx
    4chan could find him in 4 days
  • @alexbanks9510
    This video is being correctly praised for its quality but I want to highlight just how powerful the year transition sections are. The story feels so much more grounded when you're subjected to a montage of what happened at that time rather than just seeing a year number on screen.
  • @suncatblue
    This is so well produced. The snippets of headlines to mark the passing of time. The positioning of faces in a relational hierarchy, then faces highlighted as mentioned in the narrative? Damn dude. I was guided through this video and it was a f-ing pleasure. Excellent work.
  • both of my parents learned to speak, read, and write Arabic in defense language school. my dad was picked up by a contracting company working with the government and spent half my childhood overseas. He’s talked about being able to speak with Sheikh Mohammed while he was in custody in 2003. he didn’t try to hide anything he had done, he was eager to talk about the lengths Al-Queda had taken to carry out the attacks. the men were fully funded and lived in the US for several months, even took flying lessons in Arizona, Florida, and Minnesota. People credit bin Laden with the attacks, but it was Sheikh Mohammed that orchestrated the whole thing. I’m glad that distinction was made in this video edit: Sheikh Mohammed had admitted that he was angry the towers had imploded rather than toppled over. he had given specific instructions to hit the top of the towers anticipating that they would fall sideways.
  • I feel like this video was just a massive Nebula ad💀💀💀💀💀
  • @aspiealpaca1917
    This was such a good video I signed up to Nebula on your link to watch that one, and also was not disappointed. Your content is top-tier and the hours it must take to make it must be astonishing.
  • @NotSrijan
    Absolutely love the pop culture montages you use to indicate time. Totally places us in the right era and reminds us of so much.
  • @Jkizzle4996
    This was the best nebula ad I’ve ever seen
  • @oscario5616
    This video makes a Netflix documentary feel like a middle-school short-film project. Great toning of the voice, the highlights, the structure really keeps you watching from beginning to the end. Keep up the great work neo!
  • @speakinfaxonly21
    On the bright side, this video brought you another subscriber, so regardless of what YouTube restricts and prevents you from being able to do what you want to do creatively, this video still brings in new fans and potential Nebula subscribers!
  • @TheNoerdy
    After like 4 years of Nebula ads, this is the one that got me.
  • @Vvranaa
    Must be hard to go years of nothing to lead off of and probably giving up hope so many times but you know there’s no way you’re stopping because somebody was always going to keep digging on the case.