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Osama bin Laden confirmed dead
Submitted by Robby Douglas on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:56pm.
President Barak Obama on Sunday night confirmed that Osama bin Laden was killed during a CIA "ground action".
Major news organizations were apparently caught off-guard by the news, and scrambled on Sunday night to gather more information.
Media had received word confirming the U.S. has Osama bin Laden's body now, and that he died in Pakistan. DNA tests, sources said, had confirmed that it was Osama bin Laden's body.
President Obama himself confirmed those reports during an special statement at 11:34 p.m. ET on Sunday during an apparently hastily called news conference at the White House.
Obama began his address by giving a brief overview of events since Sept. 11, 2001. He said that shortly after being elected that he told Leon Pinetta, now former CIA director, to make it a priority to kill or capture Osama bin Laden. He said that he was briefed last August about a lead to bin Laden's whereabouts.
Last week, Obama said, he felt that the U.S. had enough information bring bin Laden to justice, and he then authorized a CIA operation to make it happen. Obama said bin Laden was killed during a firefight at a compound deep inside Pakistan, and that the U.S. took possession of the body.
Osama bin Laden's death does not mark the end of the U.S. efforts against terrorism, Obama said, and he made it clear that the U.S. is not, and never will be, in a war against Islam. He said bin Laden wasn't a Muslim leader, but a "mass murderer" of Muslims.
"The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores," Obama said. "It started with the slaughter of our citizens."
Obama also had a word to the families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11, 2001. "On nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done," Obama said.
Obama called on Americans to re-experience the unity of the country, as it did after Sept. 11, 2001.
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there is something verging the miraculous here.about ten years ago this man was seen by U.S. officials in a hospital bed in paris and his mortal wrappings were attached to a dialysis machine. the next we heard of him he was avoiding the U.S. authorities by chasing around caves in bora bora area of afghanistan. he's been on the lam ever since. what we need to do is find those doctors in paris and get them to cure all who have liver diseases. and what we also need is to find a news organization (tv and print) with the cajones to ask the white house and the cia if they truly believe that all of us are brainless.