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May 2, 2011 · THE PRESIDENT: 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 ...
May 2, 2016 · The decision to hunt down and kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was a priority from the moment he took office, President Barack Obama says, but whether to actually undertake the mission was ...
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Tonight, President Obama addressed the Nation to announce that the United States has killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda. Watch his full remarks here or read his full remarks below, and learn more from the transcript of the White House briefing call afterwards. 11:35 P.M. EDT
It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory -- hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flig...
Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals whove worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice. We give thanks for the men who carried out this o...
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May 2, 2011 · May 2, 2011, 12:36 AM. May 2, 2011— -- President Barack Obama delivered the following remarks to the nation on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. Good evening. Tonight, I can report ...
t. e. On May 2, [a] 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). [1] The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA -led mission ...
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- May 2, 2011; 12 years ago
May 2, 2011 · Full text: Obama on Osama Bin Laden's death. 2 May 2011. US President Barack Obama gives a statement confirming the death of Osama Bin Laden. US President Barack Obama confirmed that al-Qaeda ...
May 9, 2011 · Killing Bin Laden: The President's Story, Part 1 16:27. Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America. With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear and ingrained the threat ...
