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5/24/2011
Bin Laden died 5 years ago! Former CIA agent Berkan Yarash Said
5/11/2011
Bin Laden raid: US team 'ready to fight way out'
The size of the assault team was expanded days before the operation, unnamed military and administration officials quoted by the paper say.
Pakistan has begun an investigation into how Bin Laden lived undetected.
But relations with the US have been severely strained by the raid.
US President Barack Obama had previously urged Pakistan to investigate how the al-Qaeda leader could live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected and to find out if any officials knew of his whereabouts.
But in a statement to parliament on Monday announcing the inquiry, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani insisted that allegations of Pakistani complicity and incompetence were "absurd".
He said that Pakistan was "determined" to examine the failures to detect Bin Laden and he mounted a robust defence of Pakistan's record in fighting terrorism.
He also added that the US raid was "a violation of sovereignty".
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says that although there have always been questions over the level of Pakistan's commitment to demobilise the Taliban and certain elements of al-Qaeda, the raid on 2 May is the first clear proof of the Americans giving up hope that the Pakistanis would really ever deliver.
But the UK's Guardian newspaper reported that a deal struck between former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and former US President George W Bush in 2001, paved the way for the US to conduct a unilateral raid inside Pakistan if they knew of Bin Laden's whereabouts.
The paper quotes serving and retired Pakistani and US officials as saying that under the terms of the arrangement Pakistan would "vociferously protest the incursion" after it took place.
'Return fire'
But the latest details of the operation reveal the extent to which the US was prepared to go in order to capture or kill the al-Qaeda leader.
"Their instructions were to avoid any confrontation if at all possible. But if they had to return fire to get out, they were authorised to do it," one senior Obama administration official is quoted by the New York Times as saying.
In the original plan, two helicopters were going to stay on the Afghan side of the border to be called upon for assistance should the need arise. They would have been about 90 minutes away from the Bin Laden compound.
But, the paper reports, just 10 days before the raid President Obama reviewed the operational plans and the decision was taken to send two more helicopters carrying additional troops, which followed the aircraft carrying the assault team.
"Some people may have assumed we could talk our way out of a jam, but given our difficult relationship with Pakistan right now, the president did not want to leave anything to chance," the New York Times quoted one unnamed senior administration official as saying.
"He wanted extra forces if they were necessary."
Interrogators on standby
US forces had been instructed to avoid engaging with Pakistani forces and if a confrontation appeared imminent, there were plans for senior US officials to call Pakistani counterparts to avert a clash, senior administration officials are quoted as saying
But the size of the US force was increased when the president expressed his concern that this was not enough to protect those on the ground, the paper reports.
Other details that emerged about the operation include:
Two specialist teams were on standby, probably on the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea: one to bury Bin Laden if he was killed, and a second team of lawyers, interrogators and translators if he was taken alive
One of the back-up helicopter teams was actually used when one of the first team's helicopters was damaged
US surveillance aircraft were watching and listening to how Pakistan's security forces responded to the raid to determine how long the team could safely remain on the ground
Correspondents say that Pakistan plays a crucial role in America's war efforts in Afghanistan, and too much public pressure on Pakistan could jeopardise the relationship.
And despite strained relations, Pakistan's prime minister also reiterated that Washington remained a key ally of Islamabad, in Monday's speech to parliament.
5/03/2011
Osama bin Laden's death points to Obama's re-election
The story of the hidden details behind the scenes continue to explore and come out, I believe the next several days will allow various media to maintain high heat. While on the death of Osama bin Laden knew the details of the current is not too much, but imagine there must be enough behind that some of the great big story.
It is reported that the CIA had learned last year in August to Osama bin Laden may be living in the north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, Abbottabad. That is 9 months since the most successful covert CIA operation with the major cases, from identifying targets to keep confidential, international cooperation to military raids, ring ring connected with great accuracy.
So this work in a decade, finally done. U.S. officials said before the action launched a campaign against the United States not to share relevant information with any country, including NATO allies, and Pakistan. Only the U.S. government in advance of a small group of people aware of the matter.
Abbottabad Pakistan Khyber Pashtun province of an important city, located in Islamabad about 100 kilometers north. Bin Laden's hiding place in Abbottabad complex structure, the huge space, and its external walls 4-6 m thick, is the other wall in the thickness of the region of 8 times. The estimated construction cost of millions of dollars, and the internal have heard, there is no telephone installation or Internet settings.
U.S. officials said the CIA had been tracking for many years a trusted messenger bin Laden four years ago, confirmed the identity of bin Laden. Two years ago, determined the scope of his activities. In August last year, found his home in Abbottabad, and since then officially launched this action.
The CIA and proved a truth: Success is a need for long-term patience. Speaking of the successful action, contributed to the current CIA Director Panetta, Panetta was nominated by the President last week, Congress approved the new defense minister took office in July, figures he has a hot news today messages that can be said of his political career is icing on the cake.
The "911" when the U.S. President George W. Bush, although he did not do so in the two-term elimination of Osama bin Laden, but he started from the CIA to capture or kill Osama bin Laden as the headline tasks, so Obama is the first phone call Osama bin Laden to the death of former President informed.
The maximum score of bin Laden were killed, should the United States is Barack Obama. In a televised speech, Obama used a lot of coverage about his own relationship with this action, he said he entered the White House ordered the CIA not long a few days to kill or arrest Osama bin Laden Panetta as the primary task , also described how in August last year after he followed up with the national security team to detect the movements of bin Laden.
Obama said, I am finally in the last week, I'm sure we have enough information to go hands-on, and to authorize the capture of bin Laden's actions. Obama used the words: at my direction, in his instructions, the United States began operations. In saying these words, we see that the Obama glow color to show God that he's proud as an American Commander in Chief. Indeed, Obama took office, many in the political and economic aspects of the operation, not as such a victory today. There is no doubt that Obama will become an important trump card of the re-election.
5/02/2011
Bin laden killed: Dramatic reconstruction of how hit squad finally took out Bin Laden
Almost ten years after the horror of 9/11, Osama bin Laden must have thought he was safe.
He had moved from the remote, barren mountains on Afghanistan's inhospitable border to a comfortable $1million mansion in one of Pakistan's most picturesque and affluent cities.
Abbottabad - named after James Abbott, the British major who founded the town in 1853 - has such a pleasant climate that it is a major hub for tourists visiting the region.
And the former home of the Gurkhas is still a major military base so locals have no reason to feel threatened.
Behind the walls of his sprawling compound about 60 miles north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, Bin Laden had every reason to believe he was way beyond the searching eyes of the Americans he had taunted for so long.
His family was with him and a parade of couriers would bring him everything he needed from the city outside of more than a million people.
So confident was he that the huge three-storey house he was living in was eight times larger than most other homes in the area, hardly a low-profile hideaway for the most wanted man in the world.
But, according to U.S. intelligence sources, Bin Laden was taken completely by surprise by the special forces who had spent the best part of a decade stalking him.
He had, after all, survived two wars launched with the aim of capturing him and his followers.
The last time the Americans and the British got as close - a few months after the attacks on New York and Washington - Bin Laden managed to elude them on horseback through the caves and gullies in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan.
For most of the past ten years, Bin Laden lived up to the nickname of 'Elvis' he had been given by the CIA because there had been so many bogus and fanciful sightings.
But as long ago as last August, President Obama was told in an intelligence briefing that there was a possible lead that Bin Laden was hiding in plain sight in Abbottabad.
It took eight months for U.S. and Pakistani agents to confirm for certain that the information was accurate.
After so many dead end enquiries, it was hard to believe that the elusive Al Qaeda chief would be so brazen as to live in a town favoured as a retirement spot for Pakistan's military and society elite.
The ten-foot walls and heavy security surrounding the compound made verification all the more difficult.
But a week ago, Mr Obama was given concrete photographic proof that Bin Laden was there.
After several run-throughs and the diplomatic blessing of the Pakistani government, a small special forces team of U.S. Navy Seals landed in the compound grounds yesterday with the explicit instruction - get Osama bin Laden, dead or alive.
The raid on the compound, which was just 100 yards from a Pakistani military academy, was launched at about 1.15am in the morning, according to witnesses. Four U.S. helicopters took off from the Ghazi air base in northwest Pakistan.
Bin Laden's guards opened fire from the roof and one of the helicopters crashed.
During an operation that took just 40 minutes from start to finish, Bin Laden was shot in the head in a firefight as he tried to evade capture. Three of his men were also killed along with a woman they tried to use as a human shield. One of Bin Laden's eleven sons was said to be among the dead.
The helicopter they used to breach the mansion walls suffered a mechanical breakdown and couldn't fly the soldiers out.
The Seals burned the helicopter and had to carry Bin Laden's body out on foot, an ignominious ending for the terrorist chief after one of history's biggest manhunts.
It was also a major triumph for a special CIA and special forces team of up to 100 whose mission since September 11 has been to find and kill Bin Laden.
For years, they have had to brave the jibes aimed at both the Bush and Obama administrations over the failure to track down the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
They worked closely with the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence service for whom many CIA officials have a deep mistrust because of the agency's traditional ties with the Pashtuns of Waziristan, who were believed to have harboured Bin Laden for some of his years on the run.
After he evaded capture in mid-December 1991, there were precious few credible leads of his wherebouts.
But about four years ago, CIA agents managed to identify one of his most trusted couriers after a detainee at Guantanamo Bay gave them his nickname.
It took another two years for them to discover the area where the courier and his brother were operating.
By January this year, they found out that the courier and his brother were living in a mansion that appeared to be much larger than anything they could afford.
Suspicions were raised further by the thick walls around the compound.
While other homes in the area put rubbish out to be collected, the trash was burned in the ground of the mansion, which did not have a telephone or internet service.
By February, U.S. intelligence officials were confident that Bin Laden and his family were living there and by March, Mr Obama was convening top secret meeting with his senior security staff.
The CIA believe that for many years before settling in Abbottabad, Bin Laden moved from village to village in Waziristan. He communicated only about once a month and never used a telephone.
When he reached a village with his bodyguards he would request a meeting with the local tribal leader and a substantial bribe would be paid.
Bin Laden would then be the guest of the village, where under Pashtun custom, he must be protected.
The main obstacle in finding him was that even if someone wanted to betray him and collect the $25 million reward - there was no one to turn to.
The local police would know Bin Laden was there and if anyone tried to report his presence they would quite likely be killed.
One local mullah from Waziristan agreed to send information about Bin Laden's movements and his beheaded body was found several weeks later with a message that his was the fate of spies.
While Operation Enduring Freedom was successful in liberating Afghanistan from Taliban control after 9/11, there was no doubt that the real prize was Bin Laden himself.
But the Al Qaeda chief had chosen his first redoubt with care. For several years before 2001, he had developed an intricate network of caves and dwellings 14,000ft up in the settlement known as Tora Bora.
The impenetrable mountains not only made it difficult for anybody to track him, they were also just a few miles from Pakistan, allowing him to escape easily as western troops moved in.
The commander of one U.S. military force told the '60 Minutes' news show how soldiers under his command found Bin Laden - but let him slip through their fingers.
The commander, calling himself Dalton Fury, expressed his frustration at having known where Bin Laden was, but feeling he was powerless to do anything.
At one point, he said, his forces were closing in on Bin Laden's men - but he decided to abort the mission because he did not have support from Afghan troops.
And in another incident Delta soldiers actually saw a tall man dressed in camouflage that they believed was Bin Laden - only to have the Al Qaeda leader escape their bombing campaign in the mountains.
Fury talked about a book he has written entitled 'Kill Bin Laden', detailing his memories of the campaign in Tora Bora in 2001.
'Our job was to go find him, capture or kill him, and we knew the writing on the wall was to kill him because nobody wanted to bring Osama bin Laden back to stand trial in the United States somewhere,' the mission commander told his interviewer.
He said the administration's strategy was to let Afghans do most of the fighting, however.
Using radio intercepts and other intelligence, he said, the CIA pinpointed Bin Laden's location in the Tora Bora mountains near Pakistan.
Fury's Delta team joined the CIA and Afghan fighters and piled into pick-up trucks. He claimed their orders were to kill Bin Laden and leave the body with the Afghans, keeping an Afghan face on the war.
However an audacious plan to come at Bin Laden from the back door was vetoed higher-up - Fury claimed he was never sure who.
And a second plan to drop hundreds of landmines over any escape route into Pakistan was also vetoed, with Fury claiming he had no idea why.
The only option left was a frontal assault. Fury said he had 50 men in Delta force up against Bin Laden's 1,000 - support from the Afghan forces was needed.
But, he claimed, many of the Afghan soldiers were not on board - seeing Bin Laden as a hero.
One night - alone without his Afghan allies - Fury said he was told Bin Laden was two kilometres away. Faced with overwhelming odds, he elected to stay away.
But the decision always nagged him. He wrote in his book: 'My decision to abort that effort to kill or capture Bin Laden when we might have been within 2,000 metres of him, about 2,000 yards, still bothers me.
'It leaves me with a feeling of somehow letting down our nation at a critical time.' But, he added, it wasn't worth the risk.
Fury had a second chance: Later, a Delta force named Jackal radioed they had Bin Laden in sight.
He wrote: 'The operation Jackal team observed 50 men moving into a cave that they hadn't seen before. The mujahideen said they saw an individual, a taller fellow, wearing a camouflage jacket. Everybody put two and two together, "okay, that's got to be Osama bin Laden egressing from the battlefield".
'They called up every available bomb in the air, took control of the airspace. And they dropped several hours of bombs on the cave he went into.
'We believe, it was our opinion at the time, that he died inside that cave.'
Later, however, he was proven wrong, when American forces were unable to find Bin Laden's body and the Al Qaeda leader began releasing radio and video footage again.
Fury told 60 Minutes he believes he knows what happened.
He said Bin Laden was wounded in the shoulder by shrapnel from an American bomb, and was then hidden a town next to the Al Qaeda cemetery.
'We believe a gentleman brought him in - a gentleman, him and his family were supporting Al Qaeda during the battle. They were providing food, ammo, water.
'We think he went to that house, received medical attention for a few days then, and then we believe they put him in a vehicle and moved him back across the pass,' he was quoted as saying.
Bin Laden Dead: How They Got Him -- And What Happens to al Qaeda Now
The reports started coming in more than a month ago: Osama bin Laden was on the move, and the U.S. had its eye on him. Stressed by the turmoil sweeping his part of the world - tumult he had no roll in sparking - bin Laden was trying to bolster al Qaeda's credibility as young people Tweeted and Facebooked about a future that didn't involve him, or al Qaeda.
Surprisingly, he didn't die a standoff death from an unseen Predator drone, as most would have expected. Instead, a team of U.S. special-operations forces helicoptered into a high-walled compound deep inside Pakistan and killed him and four others in a firefight, including a son of bin Laden and a woman allegedly being used as a human shield. (Is Pakistan Losing Patience in the War on Terror?)
Dispatching a special-forces team into Pakistan makes two things crystal clear: the U.S. believed its intelligence was solid, and it wanted proof he was dead; they wanted his corpse. One of the choppers involved in the raid malfunction and was destroyed; no U.S. personnel were injured in the operation, which lasted about 40 minutes.
The whereabouts and fate of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy, remain unknown. Whether bin Laden's death sparks a spasm of violence - or marks the end of al Qaeda as a potent terror force - also remains unclear. Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian-born doctor, recently encouraged Muslims to fight the U.S. and its allies in Libya. "I want to direct the attention of our Muslim brothers in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and the rest of the Muslim countries, that if the Americans and the NATO forces enter Libya then their neighbors in Egypt and Tunisia and Algeria and the rest of the Muslim countries should rise up and fight both the mercenaries of Gaddafi and the rest of NATO," Zawahri said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
There was a quiet giddiness among U.S. military personnel late Sunday as word began to spread that Osama bin Laden had been killed. This is scant consolation to the survivors of the 3,000 killed that late summer day, but it represents sweet vindication nonetheless.
U.S. intelligence had learned that bin Laden might be holed up in a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, some 50 miles northeast of Islamabad, last August. Basically a suburb of the capital, the well-to-do city is home to many retired Pakistani military officers. That may explain the extraordinary secrecy surround the operation: few top officials in the U.S. government knew such an operation was afoot, and news of it wasn't shared with any allies, including Pakistan. How bin Laden was able to reside in a posh compound for months, if not years, surrounded by former Pakistani military officers remains unknown. (Pakistan-U.S. Border Spat: Crippling the Afghanistan Campaign?)
A U.S. official said a key clue to tracking bin Laden down was learning the name of a trusted courier, which led U.S. intelligence to the compound raided on Sunday. After noting the compound had few electronic links to the outside world - and incinerated its trash, rather than putting it out to be picked up - Obama gave the go-ahead last week for a helicopter raid into the compound. Bin Laden "did resist the assault force," the U.S. official said, but was shot in the head and killed "as our operators came into the compound."
It would be churlish, but accurate, to point out that he had eluded a worldwide manhunt for close to a decade after eluding a tightening, but fraying, U.S.-Afghan net at Tora Bora on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in December 2001. As hundreds crowded around the White House to celebrate bin Laden's demise, it's also relevant to note that bin Laden's impact peaked on 9/11, and has dwindled ever since. Nonetheless, the symbolic impact of his death cannot be under-estimated, either in the war on terror or on Obama's re-election prospects.
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The Pakistani firefight only codified what a younger generation, where women are playing a major role, has made clear: OBL was a force in a region ruled by autocrats in the 20th Century; he had much less resonance among the younger cohort now taking over.
Pentagon officials have said that al Qaeda has played only a minor role in Afghanistan in recent years. The Americans and their allies there are primarily fighting the Taliban, an indigenous force of Pashtuns whose homeland straddles the Af-Pak frontier.
Bin Laden's death only excises a tumor. The cancer that he represented remains in wide swaths of the world where local populations have been forced into have-not-dom while their leaders have lived well. Whether his demise marks the end of a particularly virulent strain, or will trigger a violent recurrence, remains unknown.
Bin Laden’s Dead, America Celebrates and Ignorance Reigns Supreme Continue reading at NowPublic.com: Bin Laden’s Dead, America Celebrates and Ignorance Reigns Supreme
Osama bin Laden, Who the Associated Press calls "the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans", was killed in an operation led by the United States, This stated by President Barack Obama on Sunday.
The Fact is that Osama Bin Laden Never claimed responsibly for, and has NEVER been charged with the attacks that took place on September 11th 2001.
The grainy video that was used by the whole of American Media to claim the guilt rested on his shoulders, in fact shows Osama Bin Laden saying he was pleased with the attacks but not that he had any involvement in them.
Robert Muller the then head of the FBI, stated precisely that the reason Osama Bin Laden has never been charged in the World Trade Center attack was because; "We have no evidence to support the accusation (by George Bush and his cabinet members) that Osama Bin Laden had any involvement with the events that took place on September 11th 2001, at the World Trade Center." On the wanted poster for Osama Bin Laden posted by the FBI there is no mention of the World Trade Center Attacks.
According to the Associated Press (AP)
"A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden's remains, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House."
The president has been quoted as stating: "Justice has been done"
September 11th and the events on that day have been the staging point for a great deal of change in the American intelligence community; because of it we changed our entire information gathering structure. It was the catalyst for the creation of Home Land Security which is now the largest and broadest such entity of its kind. It has enormous sums of money at its disposal. In fact, just how much money is involved in this endeavor is not quite known.
What has been abundantly clear is the profit that has been made from the escalation of America's involvement in no less than four (4) wars since September 11th. This allowed for the defense industry known as "The Military Industrial Complex" to in effect, write their own check with the tax payers money. Congress, stirred by the FEAR (emphasis needed) that was reiterated by virtually every media outlet, and vote seeking politician in the country, gave every single corporation with a brand new gadget that kills people a literal 'ton' of money.
The wars that have been fought by young American soldiers, some British, and a dozen or so enlisted men from Turkey; have been based on speculation, bad intelligence, and outright lies.
-Iraq, which has been proven to be a war that has taken on the characteristics of Viet Nam. Both Iraq and Viet Nam were initiated on the premise of a lie, by those very high in our governmental power structure. It was the Weapons of Mass Destruction fairy tale that was told by Bush, Cheney, Rice and Powell.
(Viet Nam, for those who are not old enough to remember, it was the Gulf of Tonkin incident where it was claimed by high ranking government officials (which may have included President Lyndon B. Johnson) That a North Vietnamese Navy vessel fired upon the USS Maddax. This, in turn lead congress to pass a bill that allowed then President Lyndon B. Johnson, to engage North Vietnam in war. In 2005 Documents were declassified that proved the incident never actually happened.)
The war in Afghanistan which has been defined by American soldiers hunting civilians, killing them and mutilating their bodies.
-Pakistan where drones have tallied up a kill ratio of 50 dead civilians to 1 dead insurgent.
-Libya is the new manner of aggression for the American war machine which is continually being defined as reports of civilian deaths from American bombs are dropped with "precision" targeting.
Al-Qaida organization was not wanted for the September 11th attacks, but they have been sought for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.
Even today the media that caters to the President and any politician with influence is blatantly passing over the facts. CBS, NBC, Associated Press, Reuters, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CNN, And every major newspaper in the country has printed Osama Bin Laden was "the mastermind behind the September 11th Attacks." The fact is that that there was never enough evidence to even charge him with the crime.
Now America is in celebration of the death of what they have seen, and been shown, by a manipulative government, and corporate owned media, as to be their greatest threat to security.
In the name of security Americans have allowed their civil liberty to be cast aside in the name of false senses of safety. The Patriot act took any semblance of privacy and with its extension that has been granted by congress we have another nine months of illegal wire tapping, warrant less searches, and illegal detention to look forward to.
America is celebrating because they are under the impression that Osama Bin Laden was their sworn enemy and he is dead and defeated. They fail to see that their real enemy is alive and well in the halls of Congress catering to lobbyists while they pander to corporations for the crumbs that are left over devouring their country and all that it entails from within.
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Special Report: Death of Osama Bin Laden
With chants of "USA, USA," revelers celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden, the man behind the attacks, have spilled into the street, bringing traffic to a standstill.
"It's like the World Series down here," CBS News chief national correspondent Byron Pitts reported from the celebration.
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For Ashley Smith, the news of Bin Laden's death brings a bit of closure. She worked two blocks from Ground Zero on the day of the attacks and was forced to run from her office for safety when the buildings collapsed. She joined the impromptu rally in lower Manhattan.
Key dates in the hunt for Osama bin Laden
She was skeptical of the U.S.'s response initially but now says it was all worth it. "I felt like we had all of our money fighting this endless war over there, now it totally validates it," said Smith.
Diane Massaroli lost her husband, Michael, nearly 10 years ago on 9/11. She only comes to Ground Zero once a year on the anniversary of the attacks but felt compelled to come tonight.
"We can never celebrate ever since this happened. [Tonight] is sad also but it's a celebration," Massaroli said.
President Barack Obama said in an address from the White House late Sunday night that a small team of Americans carried out the operation to kill bin Laden in Pakistan, and that cooperation from Pakistani authorities was crucial.
"Shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda," Mr. Obama said. "Tonight, we can say to those who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda's terror, justice has been done."
Obama tells nation bin Laden is dead
Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday
A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden's remains, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House.
A jubilant crowd gathered outside the White House as word spread of bin Laden's death after a global manhunt that lasted nearly a decade.
"Justice has been done," the president said.
The development comes just months before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden's al-Qaida organization, that killed more than 3,000 people.
The attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America's entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.
Al-Qaida organization was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.























