New York exhibition details 10-year hunt for Bin Laden
14 November 2019 |
8:09 am
A new exhibition details the operation that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, with a model of the Pakistani villa where he lived and testimonies from those who planned and carried out the famous raid.
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