In 2011, bin Laden was killed by US forces in Pakistan.
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In Chinese media bin Laden's full name is usually rendered 奥萨马·本·拉登, but single-word 拉登 is the standard shorthand. He was killed on May 2, 2011 in a US Navy SEAL raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
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The 9·11事件 drove waves of late-Cold-War Chinese op-eds on US hegemony and Middle East policy; bin Laden himself became a shorthand pop-culture reference for any bearded loner hiding out in hostile terrain - comparable to the way 本·拉登同款 pops up ironically online for rural cave selfies.
