Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by U.S. assetsin a mansion outside Islamabad, U.S. officials said. President Barack Obama will announce the death of the terrorist leader tonight.
Obama will deliver the news to the nation in an address from the White House, almost 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden orchestrated. Bin Laden was killed, along with other members of his family, an official said.
Almost 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, most at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Virginia just outside of Washington.
The administration has been briefing congressional officials ahead of the president’s address.
Obama and his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, made capturing Bin Laden a key national security priority. Obama has called the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan the “epicenter of violent extremism,” where he said al-Qaeda leader bin Laden was hiding.
The news brought a cheering, chanting crowd outside the White House fence before Obama was set to appear on television.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-02/obama-to-announce-bin-laden-is-dead-in-white-house-address-official-says.html
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