ABSTRACT
On the night of May 1st, 2011, U.S. Navy SEALs flew helicopters into a fortified compound in a town outside Islamabad, Pakistan, and, shortly after midnight on May 2nd, killed Osama bin Laden. When President Obama announced the news in a special broadcast from the White House, I was shocked to learn where Osama bin Laden had been found: in Abbottabad, where I had spent many years of my childhood and teens with my family, and where my family’s home, atop a beautiful hill overlooking the Abbottabad Valley, is still my destination on my twice-yearly trips to Pakistan.
