Osama bin Laden is dead
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 02 May 2011, 16:16 IST   |    18 Comments
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Osama bin Laden is dead
Bangalore: The founder and spiritual figurehead for al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, is dead reports CBS news. President to make surprise announcement that al Qaeda figurehead is dead. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told the Associated Press that bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan. While details are still sketchy, CBS News correspondent Chip Reid reports from the White House that officials are saying bin Laden was shot in the head. President Barack Obama is expected to address the nation on the subject shortly. The long-lost terrorist mastermind had eluded an aggressive hunt by U.S. authorities for nearly ten years since the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001. CBS News correspondent Lara Logan reports that human intelligence was vital in killing bin Laden, which is an important boost to the image of U.S. international intelligence gathering, and says that no enemy is safe anywhere. Bin Laden's death is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, as the administrations of both presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush hunted the Saudi-born terrorist. Security at "strategic places in Pakistan has been beefed up as a precaution against any retaliation to news of Osama bin Laden's death", a senior Pakistani security official told CBS News early on Monday. "If he(bin Laden) is really dead, there will be attempts to seek revenge," said the official who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity. Former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said on Twitter: "BinLaden's death does not eliminate the threat from alQaeda, but it is hard to see anyone playing the same organizational role he did."

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