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RT @michellemalkin: MT @BettinaInclan At ground zero crowd cheering USA, fire trucks honking yfrog.com #binladenisdead

by kpatt5 via twitter 5/2/2011 4:27:37 AM
Obama said he got the lead in August that eventually led to #binLaden, thanked special ops forces who tracked him down and killed him.

by Patricia Zengerle via twitter 5/2/2011 4:28:48 AM
Obama: #binLaden was killed after a firefight. No Americans were harmed. Plus there's a big crowd outside the White House.

by Patricia Zengerle via twitter 5/2/2011 4:28:51 AM
Crowd many people deep outside White House fence, cheering and waving flags (also taking cellphone pix, naturally). #binladen

by Patricia Zengerle via twitter 5/2/2011 4:28:54 AM
From New York Times: “This is important news for us, and for the world,” said Gordon Felt, president of the Families of Flight 93, the airliner that crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside after passengers fought with hijackers. “It cannot ease our pain, or bring back our loved ones. It does bring a measure of comfort that the mastermind of the September 11th tragedy and the face of global terror can no longer spread his evil.”

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:29:08 AM
U.S. has just issued a worldwide travel alert

by Reuters.com 5/2/2011 4:29:56 AM
@Nevering: Click on the link. The story doesn't say what you say it says. Someone is playing some games here.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:31:11 AM
As a Christian I find it hard to celebrate any killing. It is good that Bin Laden has been stopped, but a trial would have been better than an assassination. It is likely that this news will lead to a wave of retaliation from those that think it is okay to kill in the name of their beliefs. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. And...... RE Pearl Harbour: [eyesee] is it possible that US intelligence had zero idea that a massive armada of ships planes and aircraft carriers was heading to the US to carry out a surprise attack. Why did Washington cut the intelligence feed to Pearl Harbour for three days before the attack?

by longtimedead 5/2/2011 4:31:20 AM
for the forming Soviet Union, the germany is geograficaly strategic, but tell me where the midlle east has strategic importance besides the oil.

by Felipe Nunes 5/2/2011 4:31:24 AM
U.S. official says handling Osama bin Laden's body in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition

by Stephanie Ditta 5/2/2011 4:31:55 AM
Osama bin Laden was killed 10 years too late. God knows how many people and copies of himself he has trained? Now I am really scared to go out in any big city. They needed to put a stop to this terrorists years ago! Still I think that that it is better late than never…

by Francisca Suarez 5/2/2011 4:31:57 AM
yep some funny stuff going on

by Nevering 5/2/2011 4:32:26 AM
Osama bin Laden in photos www.reuters.com

by Stephanie Ditta 5/2/2011 4:33:38 AM
Which military branch killed Osama bin Laden?

by raz 5/2/2011 4:34:49 AM
@raz: CNN and NYT are reporting that was the Navy Seals.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:35:11 AM
@raz JSOC- Joint Special Operations Command. ARMY/NAVY/AIR
FORCE

by zztopper 5/2/2011 4:36:25 AM
I hope their won't be so much violence

by Awesome sauce 5/2/2011 4:36:28 AM
UK's David Cameron says bin Laden's death "will bring great relief" to the world.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:37:26 AM
Cut of the head of the snake, two more take it's place.

by Pulse 5/2/2011 4:40:54 AM
Article changed was

by Nevering 5/2/2011 4:41:25 AM
I believe joint special operations is navyseals plus other special forces

by Awesome sauce 5/2/2011 4:41:26 AM
Celebrations outside the White House

by Reuters.com 5/2/2011 4:42:07 AM
This is bittersweet. I'm happy that there is a sense of closure.

by Pulse 5/2/2011 4:43:02 AM
All these years bombings and air strikes have failed to kill him but a small elite special force does the job

by Awesome sauce 5/2/2011 4:43:08 AM
why do they keep gloryfying himby showing his pictures everywhere.dont the news people know this is what his people want..stop showing his pictures!!

by momskie 5/2/2011 4:44:00 AM
@Awesome sauce: Is that surprising? Seems to me what was missing was never force or will. What was missing was actionable intelligence.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:44:23 AM
Yes but there was plenty intel of his previous locations but bombings and Large scale assaults where used while a smaller

by Awesome sauce 5/2/2011 4:46:25 AM
very bizarre special ops takeout by JSOC; that must have been intense, q's on failure of pakistani intelligence and how long he stayed in his "palatial" mansion. supposedly arrest of a courier lead to tip off to other couriers and then afternoon US EST take-out

by veronfromvancouver 5/2/2011 4:46:42 AM
Sorry guys but where did all those people come from a the White House gates with all the flags?? Looked like some people were ‘conducting’ the noise.
Gosh I don’t drive about with huge flags in my car. Could it be the reason we waited 45 min for the man child to speak? It was staged. Just look at the difference at Time Square!

by C lee 5/2/2011 4:46:45 AM
Tomorrow will surely be a brighter day. Props to the troops who took him down, I'm eager to read more details of the actual event.

by brother man 5/2/2011 4:46:47 AM
I have a feeling Obama just insured himself reelected for four more years.

by SJN 5/2/2011 4:46:57 AM
Great news tonight about the death of Osama Bin Laden. Now that the US has his body, they should keep it or destroy it and throw the ashes away. He should not be afforded a decent burial if for no other reason that it would provide a focal point for a possible shrine.

by Bob R. 5/2/2011 4:47:01 AM
Here's some video of the crowds at
Ground Zero, courtesy of @madmanhibma yfrog.com

by Reuters.com 5/2/2011 4:47:21 AM
the more they keep showing his pictures..the more it just glorifies osama..his people feedoff of this..

by momskie 5/2/2011 4:49:17 AM
@C Lee : The White House is close to George Washington University and its campuses, it makes sense that students got there faster than people in Times Square.

by Olivier 5/2/2011 4:49:19 AM
I know this is not a very reliable source, but is the second time something like that comes up: "News Agencies and confidential sources are also reporting that he may have been killed a week earlier and the announcement was held back for DNA confirmation. DNA from bin Laden's body, compared with DNA samples on record from his dead sister, confirmed bin Laden's identity.[144]" From en.wikipedia.org If you clik on the source link (143) ABC news does not say anything other than the DNA has been tested. Same thing happened earlier tonight with reports about last week but was edited shortly after.

by Concerned1000000 5/2/2011 4:49:21 AM
@Nevering: Am seeing the same stuff I really suspect a bunch of busy trolls trying to disseminate a rumor. Would be worth putting the question to the AP, though.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:50:12 AM
@C lee No, I don't think it was staged. Talk like that only makes you sound like The Donald :P

by brother man 5/2/2011 4:50:23 AM
I am actually surprised it took so long for his killing/capture with All these satalits and other intelligence gathering systems

by Awesome sauce 5/2/2011 4:50:26 AM
No I doubt Osama will stoop to their levels. He will give him an Islamic burial. That would be the Christian thing to do.

by SJN 5/2/2011 4:50:32 AM
Wikipedia is by no means a reliable source of information in cases like this

by Olivier 5/2/2011 4:50:33 AM
@Olivier. Indeed.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:50:48 AM
Just finished the Star Spangled Banner at the World Trade Center/Ground Zero. I wish all were here! t.co

by andy_juan via twitter edited by Reuters.com 5/2/2011 4:51:00 AM
@Nevering: You also have to wonder why the administration would risk losing the massive potential benefit here by putting out a story that could be so easily unraveled. It just doesn't pass the basic smell test.

by james.ledbetter 5/2/2011 4:52:09 AM
I think that this is more a victory for Obama (likely to boost his popularity) than any actual impact on global terrorism--bin Laden is said to have had little involvement in recent years.

by Adder 5/2/2011 4:52:11 AM

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