OSAMA BIN LADEN IS CONFIRMED DEAD...

Killed in
PAKISTAN by US Military Ground Operation in
Northwest Pakistan... (with VIDEO of President Obama
Remarks from the White House) DEVELOPING....

Osama Bin Laden is confirmed dead, a US Military ground operation in ABBOTTABAD,

PAKISTAN killed him... His DNA has matched with the DNA the US Government had of
him confirming his death... The US Government has his body according to reports... 3
other Males were killed along with him in Surgical Raid that took no more than 40
minutes... Sources say Six children, two wives of Osama Bin Laden were arrested along
with his four close friends in a search operation launched early Monday morning by the
Pakistani forces in a mountainous area located some 60 kilometers north of Pakistan's
capital Islamabad. The report said that one of Bin Laden's sons was killed in the
operation.The operation was in coordination with the Pakistani military forces...
Osama Bin Laden has been buried at sea according to muslim tradition... Compound is
on fire after surgical raid, causes unknown...

For VIDEO of President Barack Obama Remarks from The White House Click HERE

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden, the Saudi extremist whose al-Qaida terrorist organization
killed more than 3,000 people in coordinated attacks on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, is dead
following a military operation in Pakistan and the U.S. has recovered his body, U.S. President
Barack Obama announced Sunday night.

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"Justice has been done,"President Barack Obama declared as crowds formed outside the White
House to celebrate, singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "We Are the Champions," NBC
News reported.

Obama said bin Laden, whom he called  a terrorist "responsible for the murder of thousands of
American men, women and children," was killed in Pakistan earlier in the day after a firefight in
an operation that was based on U.S. intelligence.

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Abbottabad, Pakistan (Google Maps Link to where bin
laden was killed)

Officials long believed that bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a
mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, having fulfilled the goal
once voiced by Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, to bring to justice the mastermind of the
Sept. 11 attacks.

Obama declared that "the death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in
our nation's struggle to defeat al-Qaida," he stressed that the effort continues.

"We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad," he said, while emphasizing that "the
United States is not and never will be at war with Islam."

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Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill
Clinton Issue Statements on Osama Bin
Laden Death
May 01, 2011 11:55 PM

ABC's Karen Travers and Z. Byron Wolf report:

Former presidents are weighing in on the killing of Osama bin Laden by American forces
operating inside Pakistan.

Former President George W. Bush, whose entire presidency was defined by the September 11th
attacks, said in a statement tonight that President Obama called him to inform him of the news of
bin Laden’s death.

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Bush called the operation a “momentous achievement” that “marks a victory for America, for
people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11,
2001.”

“I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who
devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude,” the former president
said in a statement. “The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an
unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.”

Former President Bill Clinton, who was in office for the first World Trade Center bombing in
1993, also issued a written statement.

"I congratulate the President, the National Security team and the members of our armed forces
on bringing Osama bin Laden to justice after more than a decade of murderous al-Qaida attacks,"
he said.

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DEVELOPING... Stay tuned for updates here...
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Osama Bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered
by US authorities, US and Pakistani officials said on Sunday.

US President Barack Obama confirmed the report in a hastily called, late-night appearance at the
White House, saying the world's most-wantd "terrorist" was killed in a US-led operation in
Pakistan.

A senior US counterterrorism official earlier said Bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in
Pakistan, not by a Predator drone, last week.

A senior Pakistani intelligence official in Islamabad confirmed the news.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.

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Officials have long believed Bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a
mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team. Obama’s predecessor,
George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009.

US officials said that after searching in vain for the Al-Qaeda leader since he disappeared in
Afghanistan in late 2001, the Saudi-born extremist is dead and his body recovered.

Having the body may help convince any doubters that Bin Laden is really dead.

He had been the subject of a search since he eluded US soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a
large-scale assault on the Tora Bora mountains in 2001. The trail quickly went cold after he
disappeared and many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.

While in hiding, Bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his militant Islamist views in
videotapes spirited from his hideaway.

Besides Sept. 11, Washington has also linked Bin Laden to a string of attacks — including the
1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the
warship USS Cole in Yemen.

Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil,
has been killed, sources told ABC News.

His death brings to an end a tumultuous life that saw bin Laden go from being the carefree son of
a Saudi billionaire, to terrorist leader and the most wanted man in the world.

Bin Laden created and funded the al Qaeda terror network, which was responsible for the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The Saudi exile had been a man on the run since the U.S.-
led invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the ruling Taliban regime, which harbored bin Laden.

In a video filmed two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden gloated about the attack,
saying it had exceeded even his "optimistic" calculations.

"Our terrorism is against America. Our terrorism is a blessed terrorism to prevent the unjust
person from committing injustice and to stop American support for Israel, which kills our sons,"
he said in the video.

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Long before the Sept. 11 attacks, bin Laden was known as an enemy of the United States. He
was suspected of playing large roles in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. Embassies in Africa and
the attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in October 2000.

In addition, authorities say bin Laden and his al Qaeda network were involved in previous
attacks against U.S. interests -- including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, failed plots to
kill President Clinton and the pope, and attacks on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia.

Bin Laden also used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines
and Afghanistan, sending "holy warriors" to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist
Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia.

Until the capture of one of his top al Qaeda lieutenants in March 2003, there had been no
confirmation of his whereabouts -- or even that he was still alive -- since late 2001, when he
appeared in a series of videotapes later released to news organizations.

In recent years, several audio recordings of bin Laden have been authenticated by U.S. officials
and made public. In an 18-minute videotape weeks before the 2004 U.S. presidential election,
bin Laden threatened fresh attacks on the United States as well as his intent to push America into
bankruptcy.

Young Man With a Privileged Life

Born in 1957, bin Laden was a son of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest construction magnate. Saudi
sources remembered him as a typical young man whose intense religiosity began to emerge as he
grew fascinated with the ancient mosques of Mecca and Medina, which his family's company
was involved in rebuilding.

Bin Laden attended schools in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, and was encouraged to marry early, at the
age of 17, to a Syrian girl and family relation. She was to be the first of several wives. He
attended King Abdul-Aziz University and was slated to join the family business. He soon chose a
different path, however.

Former classmates of bin Laden recall him as a frequent patron of nightclubs, who drank and
caroused with his Saudi royalty cohorts. Yet it was also at the university that bin Laden met the
Muslim fundamentalist Sheik Abdullah Azzam, perhaps his first teacher of religious politics and
his earliest radical influence.

Azzam spoke fervently of the need to liberate Islamic nations from foreign interests and
interventions, and he indoctrinated his disciples in the strictest tenets of the Muslim faith. Bin

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Laden, however, would eventually cultivate a brand of militant religious extremism that
exceeded his teacher's.

He began his relationship with fundamental Islamic groups in the early 1970s. His religious
passion exploded in 1979 when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Bin Laden left his comfortable
Saudi home for Afghanistan to participate in the Afghan jihad, or holy war, against the Soviet
Union -- a cause that the United States funded, pouring $3 billion into the Afghan resistance via
the CIA.

Turning Against the Saudi Elite

His active opposition to the Soviet Union and his monetary support in purchasing arms,
establishing training camps, and building houses, roads and other infrastructure, cemented his
position as a hero among many people.

In 1988, he and the Egyptians founded al Qaeda, ("The Base"), a network initially designed to
build fighting power for the Afghan resistance.

Bin Laden's politics became more radical during the war. Upon returning to his home in Saudi
Arabia, he was widely honored as a hero. But he returned to a country that he perceived had
stepped away from the fundamentals of Islam. He declared the Saudi ruling family
"insufficiently Islamic" and increasingly advocated the use of violence to force movement
toward extremism.

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Bin Laden saw American influence in Saudi Arabia as counter to everything he believed. He fell
into disfavor with the Saudi government and moved his family to Sudan where he established
terrorist camps -- training and equipping terrorists from a dozen countries.

Bin Laden would not compromise his religious beliefs and after three years of continued
criticism of the Saudi royal family, his own family disowned him.

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Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his citizenship in the mid-'90s for his alleged activities
against the royal family, after he had left the country for Sudan. He later was expelled from
Sudan under U.S., Egyptian and Saudi pressure. In 1996, he took refuge in Afghanistan.

Back to Afghanistan

Former mujahideen commanders close to the Taliban said that, in Afghanistan, bin Laden
bankrolled the hard-line Islamic militia's capture of Kabul under the leadership of Mullah
Mohammed Omar. He became one of Omar's most trusted advisers.

One of bin Laden's main strengths among the Muslim people was that followers saw him as a
true believer in the faith. In their eyes he transcended other leaders who are viewed as dictators
who care little for Islam or the people they lead. Bin Laden entered their lives with a message
they can follow and he had the cash at his disposal to carry out that message.

Bin Laden was said to personally control about $300 million of his family's $5 billion fortune.
His role as a financier of terrorism is pivotal, experts said, because he revolutionized the
financing of extremist movements by forming and funding his own private terror network.

In 1998, he issued an edict openly declared war on America: "We -- with God's help -- call on
every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded to comply with God's order to kill
the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."

Bin Laden committed himself to expelling all Americans and Jews from Muslim holy lands.
"Osama bin Laden may be the most dangerous non-state terrorist in the world," Sandy Berger,
President Clinton's national security adviser, told ABC News.

Most Wanted Man on Earth

His place in American history is relatively new, but in a short time he left a violent mark.

In 1993, bin Laden was linked by U.S. officials to the bombing of the World Trade Center that
killed six people. He is also believed to have orchestrated at least a dozen attacks, some
successful, some not. Among the worst of these were two truck bombings, both on Aug. 7, 1998,
of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Clinton responded with cruise missile attacks on suspected al Qaeda training camps in
Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. In November 1998, the U.S. State Department
promised $5 million to anyone with information leading to bin Laden's arrest.

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Despite attempts to apprehend him, bin Laden eluded the American government and continued
plotting against it.

The same group, with bin Laden at the helm, is widely believed to be responsible for the October
2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole.

Then came the stunning Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. On a clear, late-summer morning, two hijacked
commercial jets flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. About an hour later, another
hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon in the nation's capital. A fourth hijacked jet did not
reach its target, crashing in western Pennsylvania instead.

When the massive towers collapsed in flames, nearly 3,000 people perished. Among those lost in
New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania were the 19 hijackers, most of whom have been
linked to al Qaeda operations. Bin Laden denied involvement in the attacks, but he praised the
hijackers for their acts. The U.S. government nevertheless regarded the terrorist leader as its
prime suspect and stepped up the manhunt.

In March 2005, Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf admitted that bin Laden had been in
Pakistan in the spring of 2004 and was almost captured. Intelligence officials said they believed
he was hiding in the rugged mountains that straddle the border with Afghanistan. The U.S.
government even launched a series of television and radio ads in Pakistan trumpeting the $25
million reward for his capture.

In January 2006, a purported Bin Laden audio tape was released where a male voice threatens
the United States with more attacks on U.S. soil.

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