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The president addressed the nation on Sunday night.

Text of White House's official statement on Osama Bin Laden's death by President Obama: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

President Barack Obama on Sunday announced that the U.S. had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Osama Bin Laden's death is being celebrated, and everyone seems to repeat the conspiracy theory that he was indeed the mastermind behind the terror attacks of 9/11. But that was never proven, and there is not even evidence hinting at such a connection according to the FBI. It is very well possible that completely different organizations than al-Qaeda were responsible for the planning and execution of 9/11, and that the latter were merely one of the involved parties.

President of United States Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden on Sunday night.

President Obama on late Sunday night announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks that triggered the U.S. global war on terror.

President Obama on late Sunday night announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks that triggered the U.S. global war on terror. Obama declared, Justice has been done.

Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama announced.

Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday.

Osama bin-Laden is dead: Obama to announce it officially soon

The US is preparing to make a statement on Sunday, an highly unusual move, to announce that it has the body of Osama Bin Laden.

German prosecutors allege that one of the three men arrested on Friday on suspicions of planning a bomb attack received his orders from a senior al-Qaeda figure from the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Libyan rebels have rejected a proposal by Moammar Gaddafi to call for a ceasefire in exchange for an end to NATO military strikes.

Files leaked from the U.S. military recently suggest that Osama Bin Laden escaped dramatically from the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in 2001 because the NATO forces on his trail were not fully equipped.

An Afghan pilot has killed eight foreign troops and a contractor at a training center near the Kabul airport, according to NATO.

President Barack Obama will announce a shift his top military and intelligence leadership ranks with on Thursday, as the nearing retirement of Defense Secretary Robert Gates will prompt a move to replace him with CIA Director Leon Panetta and fill Panetta's position with well-regarded General David Petraeus, the top military official in Afghanistan.

Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA has spent the last five days in Ankara, Turkey, on a secret visit with high-ranking Turk officials to evaluate the crisis in Syria, according to Turkish newspaper, Sabah.

The budget deficit for cash-strapped Greece is even worse than previously thought, according revised data from the European Union’s statistical office, Eurostat.

A senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist group has reportedly been killed in Kunar province, Afghanistan, according to NATO.

al Qaeda had warned to set off a “nuclear hellstorm” if Osama bin Laden is ever captured or killed.

A cache of classified U.S. military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.