U.S. Team's Mission Was to Kill, Not Capture Bin Laden - U.S. Security Official

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U.S. team's mission was to kill bin Laden, not capture

WASHINGTON | Mon May 2, 2011 8:24am EDT
(Reuters) - The U.S. special forces team that hunted down Osama bin Laden was under orders to kill the al Qaeda mastermind, not capture him, a U.S. national security official told Reuters.

"This was a kill operation," the official said, making clear there was no desire to try to capture bin Laden alive in Pakistan.

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