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The President in address to the nation …
US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed on Sunday in a US operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 150km north of Islamabad.
“Tonight, I can report to the people of the United States and the world, the United States had carried an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist responsible for killing thousands of innocent people,” Obama said in a statement.
“Today, at my direction, the United States carried out that operation… they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body.
“The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date against Al Qaeda.
Osama killed in mansion outside Islamabad
WASHINGTON GC (AFP) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, and President Barack Obama will announce his death, nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks in a televised address, a senior US official said.
The official said that Bin Laden was dead, but did not provide details of how his death occurred.
US media quoted sources as saying that Bin Laden was killed in an operation based on actionable US intelligence targeting a mansion outside Islamabad.
Obama was imminently to address Americans in a highly unusual Sunday night appearance on television.
The death of Bin Laden will raise huge questions about the future shape of al Qaeda and also have steep implications for US security and foreign policy 10 years into a global anti-terror campaign.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
