This is heartbreaking...

If it's true that U.S. soldiers were so close to Osama bin Laden that his closest soldiers were planning to kill him and themselves, this is incredibly heartbreaking. To have been that close and missed is tragic.

Report: U.S. Troops So Close to Bin Laden His Bodyguards Considered Killing Him, Themselves
Fox News

NEW YORK - A patrol of u.S. soldiers was so close to stumbling on Usama bin Laden's mountain hideout along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border during the winter of 2004-2005 that his bodyguards considered killing the terror architect and then themselves, according to a report published in the Sept. 3 issue of Newsweek.

A sentry spotted the patrol and radioed an alert to bin Laden's 40-man shield who were prepared to move "the Sheik" - as bin Laden is known to his followers - to another location, Sheik Said, a senior Egyptian al Qaeda operative, told the magazine.

But the patrol was so close to the hideout that bodyguards were close to using the code word to kill bin Laden and then commit suicide, Newsweek reported.

According to Said, bin Laden had decreed that he would never be captured.