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Good articleKilling of Osama bin Laden has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
In the newsOn this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
May 2, 2011Articles for deletionKept
October 14, 2011Good article nomineeListed
August 19, 2014Peer reviewReviewed
In the news A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on May 2, 2011.
On this day... 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


Soooo… the date is wrong

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Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011 Not on May 2. Hamster7852 (talk) 08:47, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 17 May 2024

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Change May 2nd to May 1st because Osama didn't die on May 2nd. 2600:1004:A002:BA08:D818:BD7D:DD79:8CCA (talk) 17:14, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Please see the note attached to that statement in the article: At the time of the raid, it was early morning of May 2 in Pakistan and late afternoon of May 1 in the United States. Tollens (talk) 17:34, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 12 November 2024

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In the “Leaks of the news” section:

Add “Twitter” to the end of the sentance:

“... 47 seconds later by actor and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson on .”

To:

“... 47 seconds later by actor and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson on Twitter.” Pezjake (talk) 01:14, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Already done The word "Twitter" is already in the sentence as a wikilink - maybe there's an issue with your browser. FifthFive (talk) 05:01, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 16 November 2024

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Add to Further Reading two additional academic sources:

Dahl, Erik J. “Finding Bin Laden: Lessons for a New American Way of Intelligence.” Political Science Quarterly 129, no. 2 (June 2014): 179–210. https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12183.

McMahon, Adam M. “Obama, Operation Neptune Spear, and the Specter of Failure.” Congress & the Presidency 51, no. 3 (September 2024): 302–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/07343469.2024.2357298. Blockquote (talk) 17:27, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]