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Pakistani police stand guard outside a burnt compound at the hideout of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by U.S. Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The specially constructed $1 million compound has walls as high as 18 feet topped with barbed wire.
Inside the compound
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Credit: AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images