9/11 museum shows SEAL's shirt from bin Laden raid [View all]

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Source: AP-Excite

By JENNIFER PELTZ

NEW YORK (AP) — The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a special coin given to a CIA officer who played a key role in finding him are being displayed at the Sept. 11 museum, adding potent symbols of the terrorist attacks' aftermath days before their anniversary.

The items are going on view Sunday at the ground zero museum, where leaders see them as an important and moving addition to a collection that often uses personal artifacts to explore the events and impact of 9/11.

"The death of Osama bin Laden is a huge part of the history, and we have an absolute obligation to tell it," National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum President Joe Daniels said Saturday. The display, he said, "allows millions of visitors the chance to recognize the extraordinary bravery of the men and women who sacrifice so much for this country at home and abroad."

The shirt and coin will join an existing display with a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist at the helm of the attacks was killed.

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In this Sept. 5, 2014 photo provided by the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where bin Laden was captured and killed, is shown behind a glass case at the museum in New York. The brick, a special coin given to a CIA operative who played a key role in finding bin Laden, and a fatigue shirt worn by a U.S. Navy SEAL in the raid where he was killed, are part of a new exhibit that will be introduced at the museum on Sunday, Sept. 7. (AP Photo/National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Jin Lee)


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