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Osama Bin Laden Shot Dead

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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 counter terrorism 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.

The development comes just months before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization, that killed more than 3,000 people.

The attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America’s entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.

Al-Qaida organization was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.

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33 Comments

  • NoYechi770inJerusalem

    Nah Osama Bin Laden didn’t die he is in hiding in Fort Lauderdale,Florida & hiding behind a yellow Moshiach flag :)

  • moshiach now

    awesome wev’e waited 10 years for this’ and by hashgacha protis it happpened 20 years to the day the rebbe said i did everything in my power to bring moshiach the rest i leave to you

  • obama hater

    awesome but watching obama talk made me wanna gag myself seriously ewwwwwwwww

  • MPinon

    It’s amazing that it was today, on Yom Hashoah! G-d does not forget His nation!

  • To #3

    To number 3: your comment is so smart, its the most you can say in this situation. What have you done to bring Moshiach today? Cant you not bring in the political flag at this time.
    B”H that Rasha is gone and hope to see many more end that way. Then we can all dance with flags with moshiach now.

  • Wahoo

    And another name is added to the list of murders the Jews have survived

  • thomassj

    Americans may be more attacks by terrorist ,special who oversea .So Please pay more attention to safety

  • geulah and moshiach

    This is certainly part of mechiyas amoleik and ruach hatumoh aavir min hoorets as a hachono to the geulah!

    I don’t have hebrew font but osama bin laden is begimatria amoleik koilel the four oiseyois!

  • Mamash Moshiach times

    Don’t know the exact date they killed him but wouldn’t it be amazing if it was Shivii shel Pesach, when the Mitzrayim were all drowned in the sea?

    The Arab world is imploding. They are fighting and killing each other. Mamash Moshiach times

  • Andrea Schonberger

    You have to admit that Osama did look good on a bubble gum trading card.

  • Fresser Rebbe

    Is it true, I was told that the Tzfattim are flying their flags at half staff because of the murder of one of their fellow Talabanes.

  • # 3, # 17 GO TO GEHENIM

    WHAT PASHUT GASHMIUS CHUTZPA TO EVEN BRING SUCH A CHASSIDSHE ENVIRENMONT OF FT.LAUDERDALE, FL IN THIS?

  • # 17 & # 31

    I think you 2 are barking up the wrong tree as the yellow flaggers almost destroyed the local Chabad House in Fort Lauderdale the Chabad House which has the brocho of the Rebbe,ZY“A by opening up a pirate Chabad House not sanctioned by either AGU”CH or the loacl shaliach or head shaliach.
    These people are the tzafatim there & their ringleader (who is a saarev l’din) is a dead ringer for Bin Laden!!!!!

  • Db

    1. it’s Funny because I pray there and I am 100 % sure that I have not seen any flags there from the day I joined the synagogue,

    2. First get the hole story straight then open your moth before ג׳ תמוז they wore all friends and they had no problems and after ג׳ תמוז the 2 rabbis just don’t talk so were is there a problem here ?

    3. You are adding wood to the imaginary fire by bringing it up so get a life and look at the full half of the cup