Features Editors: Hong Kong: Sean Gleeson +852 2829 6249 Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 In the darkness of May 2, 2011, two helicopters full of elite US Navy Seals touched down inside a compound in Pakistan on a mission that would kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The dramatic assault ended a manhunt that began in earnest after the terror leader's operatives hijacked planes and flew them into buildings in New York and Washington in September 2001. We will move the following stories ahead of the 10th anniversary of the raid: US-Pakistan-BinLaden-anniversary,FOCUS PARIS A decade after he was hunted down and killed in Pakistan by US special forces, Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden retains the capacity to mobilise extremists even in a polarised jihadist scene that has radically changed in the last years. 800 words by Didier Lauras. Picture US-Pakistan-BinLaden-anniversary-Abbottabad,SCENE ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan Children play cricket in a patch of scorched grass and scattered rubble in Abbottabad -- all that remains of the final lair of the man who was once the most wanted person on the planet. 650 words by Cyril Berlaud and Sajjad Tarakzai. Picture. Video. US-Pakistan-BinLaden-anniversary,INTERVIEW WASHINGTON The day before the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the CIA told president Barack Obama that they had tracked a high-level Al Qaeda courier to a house in Pakistan that could take them to Osama Bin Laden. 800 words by Paul Handley afp