Osama bin Laden was killed by the United States Navy SEAL Team Six during Operation Neptune Spear on May 2, 2011. The operation was conducted in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and was led by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with coordination from the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The SEAL team entered bin Laden's compound and shot him during a raid that lasted about 40 minutes. Bin Laden was unarmed at the time and was killed by gunfire from the SEALs, with Robert J. O'Neill, a member of the team, later publicly identifying himself as the one who fired the fatal shots to bin Laden's forehead
. The mission was approved by then-President Barack Obama and involved about two dozen Navy SEALs transported in helicopters. After killing bin Laden, the operatives took his body for identification and then buried it at sea according to Islamic tradition. The raid also resulted in the deaths of three other men, including one of bin Laden's sons, and a woman in the compound
. In summary, Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six operators during a covert raid authorized by the U.S. government in 2011
