WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the Saudi extremist whose al-Qaida terrorist organization killed more than 3,000 people in coordinated attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is dead following a military operation in Pakistan and the U.S. has recovered his body, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Sunday night.
.."Justice has been done," the president declared as crowds formed outside the White House to celebrate, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "We Are the Champions," NBC News reported.
Obama said bin Laden, whom he called a terrorist "responsible for the murder of thousands of American men, women and children," was killed in Pakistan earlier in the day after a firefight in an operation that was based on U.S. intelligence.
Officials long believed that bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, having fulfilled the goal once voiced by Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Obama declared that "the death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's struggle to defeat al-Qaida," he stressed that the effort continues.
"We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad," he said, while emphasizing that "the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam."
lol please make a kh 2 episode with obama being like the keyblade master and slaughters bin sauden and boom! wtf?!?!?! bbq :} the a sign that says fatality over bin's head lol :} ild make really cool stuff if i knew how too :}
laylacooler 7 months ago
I'm gonna miss him. Who we'll hate now, if he was really killed for good and will not be resurrected again...
pyrammmid 7 months ago
if you google "Ana raicha Al Qaeda"that is arabic for "I'm going to the toilet" they lied to us , god damn them all
bozirob 9 months ago
head shot and satilliete videos.. after math in the compond and the documents that were obtained .. found at cashcow.co.cc blog in the top left corner
shadough4747 9 months ago
The Zeitgeist Movement Response to the Media 'Death of Osama Bin Laden' On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago
Within moments, a media blitz ran across virtually all television networks, in what could only be described as a grotesque celebratory display, reflective of a level of emotional immaturity that borders on cultural psychosis.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago
Depictions of people running through the streets of New York and Washington, chanting jingoistic American slogans, waving their flags like the members of some cult, praising the death of another human being, reveals yet another layer of this sickness we call modern society.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago
It is not the scope of this response to address the political usage of such an event, or to illuminate the staged orchestration of how public perception was to be controlled by the mainstream media and the United States Government.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago
Rather the point of this article is to express the gross irrationality apparent, and how our culture becomes so easily fixed and emotionally charged with respect to surface symbology rather than true root problems, solutions, or rational considerations of circumstance.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago
The first and most obvious point is that the death of Osama bin Laden means nothing when it comes to the problem of international terrorism. His death simply serves as a catharsis for a culture that has a neurotic fixation on revenge and retribution.
zeitgeistsrbija 9 months ago