Just to remind the few Americans who downplay this achievement. Here is a timeline of the hunt for Osama bin Laden

1996: President Clinton establishes a CIA task force with the aim of catching bin Laden and disbanding al Qaeda

August 6 2001: President Bush ignores Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” about a probable planned attack in the USA by the bin Laden organisation, al Qaeda. The President commented "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

September 11 2001: The needless deaths of thousands of Americans.

September 17 2001: President G W Bush says bin Laden wanted “dead or alive.”

March 13 2002: President G W Bush says: “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.”

May 1 2003: "Mission Accomplished," (yeah, right)

July 3 2006: CIA unit tasked with hunting bin Laden closed with the approval of President G W Bush.

June 2 2009: President Obama signs a memo to Director Panetta stating “in order to ensure that we have expanded every effort, I direct you to provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice Usama Bin Ladin…”

8:20am April 29th 2011: President Obama decided to authorise the attack on the compound at Abboottsabad.

May 1 2011: The attack at Abbottsabad carried through successfully. Bin Ladin dies.