Editing Geronimo (section)

===Code name===
{{Main|Code name Geronimo controversy}}
The United States military used the code name "Geronimo" for the raid that killed Al-Qaeda terrorist [[Osama bin Laden]] in 2011, but its use outraged some Native Americans.<ref name="Osama Bin Laden: Why Geronimo?">{{cite news |title=Osama Bin Laden: Why Geronimo? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13265069 |work=BBC News |date=May 3, 2011 |access-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504035210/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13265069 |url-status=live }}</ref> It was subsequently reported to be [[Death of Osama bin Laden#Code name|named or renamed]] "[[Killing of Osama bin Laden|Operation Neptune Spear]]".<ref name="abcnewskillmission">{{cite news |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/05/us-official-this-was-a-kill-mission.html |title=US Official: "This Was a Kill Mission" |author-link=Jake Tapper |first=Jake |last=Tapper |work=ABC News |date=May 4, 2011|access-date=May 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507071438/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/05/us-official-this-was-a-kill-mission.html |archive-date=May 7, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/GMA/statuses/65551207896317952|title=A defense official tells ABC News the mission to take Osama Bin Laden was called Operation Neptune Spear.|author=Good Morning America|date=May 3, 2011|access-date=|archive-date=February 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208010905/https://twitter.com/GMA/statuses/65551207896317952|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Harlyn Geronimo, known to be Geronimo's great-grandson, said to the Senate Commission on Indian Affairs:<ref name=GeronimoName>{{cite web |url=http://multiamerican.scpr.org/2011/05/an-unpardonable-slander-the-controversy-over-the-use-of-geronimos-name-in-bin-laden-operation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813020101/http://multiamerican.scpr.org/2011/05/an-unpardonable-slander-the-controversy-over-the-use-of-geronimos-name-in-bin-laden-operation/ |date=May 6, 2011 |first=Leslie |last=Berestein Rojas |title='An unpardonable slander:' The controversy over the use of 'Geronimo' in bin Laden operation |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref>

{{blockquote|[The use of "Geronimo" in the raid that killed Bin Laden] either was an outrageous insult [or] mistake and it is clear from the military records released that the name Geronimo was used at times by military personnel involved for both the military operation and for Osama Bin Laden himself.}}