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now bring me that horizon... ([personal profile] the_future_modernes) wrote in [community profile] politics2011-05-01 10:29 pm

Osama Bin laden is DEAD!!!

Sources: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead

WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.

President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.

Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground operation, not by a Predator drone. Both said the operation was based on U.S. intelligence, and both said the U.S. is in possession of bin Laden's body.

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

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.MORE
\ETA: I'm thinking he's gonna be hard to beat in 2012. And I look forward to GOP spinning on this. POPCORN. And the excuses for staying right where they are in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq and Yemen.

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