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U.S. troops kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
"Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that has killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda," U.S. President Barack Obama said.
How the US tracked couriers to elaborate bin Laden compound
In August 2010, "we found their home in Abbottabad," not in a cave, not right along the Afghanistan border, but in an affluent suburb less than 40 miles from the capital.
Why Bin Laden's Death No Longer Really Matters
Today, the death of America's erstwhile nemesis is little more than an historical footnote -- a settling of accounts for a spree of ugly crimes and the elimination of a symbol of global jihadist nihilism, perhaps, offering justice and closure for the victims of 9/11 and other atrocities. However it does little to alter the challenges facing the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan or any other major country in the Muslim world.
Vatican says Bin Laden will have to answer to God
Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said that while Christians "do not rejoice" over a death, it serves to remind them of "each person's responsibility before God and men."
BreakingNews: Obama Kills Osama Just Before 2012 Election
US president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the US list, has been killed... Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.
Osama bin Laden dead: body buried at sea
A senior US official told US television networks that he had been buried at sea, without giving further details.
Earlier an administration official said of the corpse: "We are ensuring that it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition.
"This is something that we take very seriously. And so therefore this is being handled in an appropriate manner."
Osama bin Laden’s sea burial: good choice?
How will history view the decision to deny him a grave? Is there a risk that this break from tradition could further embroil sentiment among Muslim extremists? The decency with which a nation treats its enemies — no matter how loathed — is a barometer of its civility. Will sea burial be viewed as the right choice?
Islamic leader condemns bin Laden sea burial
The head of Egypt's prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, condemned US troops' disposal of the body of Osama bin Laden at sea on Monday as an affront to religious and human values.
Muslims set great store by interment in permanent graves on land and accept burial at sea only in cases where the body cannot be preserved intact aboard ship until it reaches shore.
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