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Home Post Blog: Osama Bin Laden Killed by JSOC (Video)

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger
Published May 1, 2011 at 7:05 PM PDT
This story was published more than 14 years ago.

The Joint Special Operations Command, known as JSOC, was responsible for taking down Osama bin Laden, according to NBC News. So what exactly is JSOC? The website GlobalSecurity.org says the military started JSOC in 1980 as a means to study the best ways to plan special operations. But as we learned tonight, JSOC is so, so much more. (Read more)

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Beth Ford Roth
Blogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.
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