Osama bin Laden is dead
Posted May 1, 2011 10:17 pm.
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Around the world — and especially in New York City and Washington — people are jubilant over the death of Osama bin Laden.
Americans streamed to ground zero, the gates of the White House and held gatherings across the U.S. to cheer and wave flags after the death was announced late Sunday night.
But not everyone is celebrating.
A Taliban fighter-turned-farmer in eastern Afghanistan says, “My heart is broken.”
A shop owner in Tokyo says he’s concerned about how Americans erupted in joy, and says “The U-S acts as the international cop.”
Nonetheless the search is over for bin Laden.
U.S. forces killed the al-Qaida leader in an early-morning attack in Pakistan and then buried the body at sea.
Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence officials believe al-Qaida will have a hard time recovering from the death of its leader.
But some experts believe bin Laden was just a symbol and that the greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. is al-Qaida in Yemen.
The group almost took down a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas 2009 and nearly detonated explosives aboard two U.S. cargo planes last fall.
