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Perhaps the most obvious historical inaccuracy in the Breaking Bad series is antagonist Jack Welker mentioning Osama bin Laden being "whacked" in late 2009, something that actually wouldn't take place until two years later in May 2011.

The easiest explaination might be that Jack and his gang of Neo-Nazis are just deranged, fringe lunatics who believed a conspiracy theory that Bin Laden was already dead and manhunt after him was a US government's hoax.

However, there's a much more convincing explaination.

Killing of Osama Bin Laden took place in 2009 or earlier in Breaking Bad Universe.

How do I know?

Throughout the series, we repeatedly learn that Cartel's assassination attempt of Hank had major political consequences on both national and international level (TV news Hector was watching, Juan Bolsa's final call to Gus, Walt's speech to Gus about the said attempt on Hank)

"Whole Washington starting barking" Bolsa was talking about refers to US Government seeking to reinforce national defense after the incident, as well as pressuring other countries' governments to do the same (Mexican government pulled off a major roundup of drug cartel members in response, which resulted in Bolsa himself being shot and killed by Mexican Federales)

Due to Pakistan's government possibly pulling off a simlair thing resulted in Osama Bin Laden being found and killed earlier (or simply due to more reinforced US national defense)

So anyway, that's just my theory.

PS: Vince Gilligan probably didn't think about that himself. "Whacking Bin Laden wasn't this complicated" was just way too funny of a gag not to put in the show, regardless of its historical accuracy.