ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Under powerful floodlights and surrounded by rings of soldiers and police, heavy machines began Saturday night to demolish the three-story compound in northwestern Pakistan where Osama bin Laden lived for years and was killed by U.S. commandos last May.
Each blow helped eliminate a concrete reminder of the painful and embarrassing chapter in Pakistan's history that the al-Qaida chief's discovery and death in a town not far from the nation's capital represented.
Pakistan was outraged by the covert American raid in Abbottabad because it was not told about it beforehand _ a decision the U.S. explained was driven by concerns that someone in the government might tip off bin LadenMore
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