In 2011, 10 years after the terrorist attacks in
New York which destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, the architect of the hijackings, Osama bin Laden, was killed by US special forces in a raid in Pakistan.The US Navy Seals carrying out the raid relayed live footage to the
White House, and a photograph of president
Barack Obama alongside his national security team witnessing the operation was used on the front pages of newspapers around the world.