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Geronimo

Geronimo is the name given to the raid that killed the world’s most wanted enemy, Osama bin Laden, inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. The legendary Apache warrior Geronimo died a captive of the U.S. Army at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1909 and was buried there in an Apache cemetery.( article). Today the grave is covered by a concrete slab and marked with a pyramid of stones that were added after 1918.

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