Thread: Osama Bin Laden is DEAD in a mansion outside Islamabad

Osama Bin Laden is DEAD. His body is in U.S. hands.

News to follow.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Osama Bin Laden is DEAD. His body is in U.S. hands.

News to follow.

It's all over the boob tube right now.

BREAKING NEWS: Reports indicate Osama bin Laden is dead‎
Blast - John M. Guilfoil - 4 minutes ago

CBS news reporter Jill Jackson reported the news and Tweeted: “House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. US has the body.â€

President Making Statement to the Nation Shortly: Will Report Bin ...‎
Firedoglake - David Dayen - 7 minutes ago

... and the White House press corps was called back late tonight. …Multiple outlets are reporting that Osama bin Laden is dead, and that the US has the body.

BIN LADEN DEAD, U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS

By HELENE COOPER
Published: May 1, 2011

The Lede Blog: Live Video of President Obama's Address (May 1, 2011)

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden has been killed, two United States officials said. President Obama was expected to make an announcement on Sunday night, almost ten years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

One of the officials said that American forces, acting on intelligence, launched a “targeted assaultâ€

1 May 2011 Last updated at 23:13 ET

Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'

Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list

Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, according to US officials.

The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly.

Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list.

He is accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.

The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a mansion outside Islamabad in an operation based on actionable US intelligence, CNN reported.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676

It was a Special Ops raid, with a bullet to the head.

Not a drone attack.

CNN reports that bin Laden was killed by the U.S. in a mansion outside Islamabad.

A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan, not by a Predator drone. The official told the Associated Press it happened last week.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... -is-dead/1

assassination of the al qaeda leader osama bin laden is really a great achievement.