The Making of Osama bin Laden

Have you been enjoying my podcast and now want even more history? Sign up to history and watch the world's best history documentaries on subjects like how William Conquered England. What it was like to live in the Georgian era. And you can even hear the voice of Richard III. We got hundreds of hours of original documentaries, plus new releases every week. And there's always something more to discover. Sign up to join us in historic locations around the world and explore the past. Just visit history it dot com slash subscribe.

Just after ten thirty PM. On the first of May twenty eleven. Two specially modified Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from a US base in Jalabad, Afghanistan. carrying twenty three Navy SEALs. An interpreter?

And a dog. Named Cairo. Yeah. Their destination lay 150 miles away across the Pakistani border. It was a fortified compound in the garrisoned town of Abutabad. The mission was codenamed.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (68 minutes, 11,206 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.