On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden founder of the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States. The al-Qaeda had claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings.