[Multiple important updates below. Video replay of broadcast below.] 10:40 p.m. EST: U.S. government officials have stated that Osama Bin Laden, yemach shemo, is dead and that the U.S. is in possession of his body. President Barack Hussein Obama will be addressing a national news conference shortly. The topic of the unexpected speech is reported to be homeland security, and while no other details were released, the announcement is expected to be a major one, addressing the death of bin Laden.
Bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
Stay tuned. Developing…
Update, 10:58 p.m.: In the last 20 minutes, media outlets around the world have picked up the story, reporting on bin Laden’s death, but not much else. The news is spreading like wildfire across the internet, as reporters are awaiting the President’s remarks, expected to be delivered momentarily. The press conference can be watched live below as soon as it commences.
This will be considered a turning point in the global “war on terrorism” that has been waged since 9/11 – and the news will reverberate around the world.
The news comes as an unparalleled boost for US foreign policy, the key aim of which since 2001 has been the disarming and dismemberment of al-Qaeda.
As a candidate, during the 2008 election campaign, Obama repeatedly vowed: “We will kill Osama bin Laden.”
Update, 11:21 p.m. EST: A senior U.S. counterterrorism official has said that in Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan, not by a Predator drone. The official said it actually happened last week and sources say that the U.S. had been waiting for the results of a DNA test to confirm his identity. This has not been confirmed by the White House. Other sources say that the operation actually took place earlier today.
Officials have 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.
ABC, CBS and NBC have cut away from scheduled programming to cover this enormous news.
Update, 11:21 p.m. EST: President Obama has just begun addressing the country.
Update, 11:46 p.m. EST: The press conference has just concluded.
Click below for a video replay of the press conference:
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Boruch dayan emes
Finally.
Pity he’s dead. They shouldve given him all he deserved.
Rumor has it that a Misaskim van was spotted delivering chairs to the east room of the white house……
Baruch Dayan Haemes may he recieve his punishment in the next world
i cant wait to hear barak HUSSEIN obama’s speech!!!
he should have had his nose arms legs ears head skin all cut that is what he deserves
woohoo
Ven echad mibinei chabura gait avek darf dee ganse chabureh dashrukin! oyyy seiz ahver tzo maspid zien dee nifter veil er iz geven azah groiseh roizteach! oyyyyyyyy vee er hut gehurevert iber dee koran oyyyyyy vos far a soiny yisroel er iz giveen!
Ba’avod reshaim rinah!
The only problem is the one who will be singing that Rina, good old BHO!!
They found Osama’s death certificate as they were looking for Obama’s birth certificate.
No big news here.
hodu laHashem kee tov….!!!!
Now al quad is just gonna attack the US! Moshiach is coming!!!!!
LOL to #3 and #10
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Why does obama always pause? And I thnk Obama and asoma were related and that Osama gave himself up
What double talking phonies! When Israel does targeted killings of terrorists, Hussian Obama shakes his finger and condems it but now that Obama has to get reelected it’s suddenly okay!
trump wants to see the death certificate
Sheim reshaim yirkoiv
very unpleasant to hear Mr Obama repeatedly say “at my direction” when the Bush team worked so hard to smoke em out, and Obama opposed the war…
OSAMA=DEAD PICKLE
Credit this to George W Bush
stop all the negative personal attacks against the President of this Malchus shel chesed. you need to remember that this is the internet, and that means that anyone could theoretically see this
Let’s finish off the whole thing
OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS KILLED ON YOM HASHOAH…..LOOK UP THE DATE OF YOM HA SHOAH
Keep up the good work CIA. Now go get all the rest of the terrorists.
How did they even know where he was? The whole thing is amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Yom Tov heee l’Yisroel! Mazel tov!
Obama for 2012!!! Lets see the Republicans spin this!
MAZEL TOV!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May we be zoche to kill many more terrorists bekorov
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Cant cut up his body . nivul hamais is aasur even on a non Jew
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spells his name
Well done to the US Special Forces personnel and their allies who carried out this operation. Justice always catches up with people. We all reap what we sow eventually. Many of the young people gathered in Times Square and outside the White House would have been aged eight to eleven years old when September 11 happened. Their reaction here is a statement that they, like all of us, do not want to live in a constant state of fear. President Obama spoke well as usual. There was not a hint of adolescent triumphalism in his voice. I agree with him. G-d bless the USA !
President Obama spoke very well.
Really.
I just wish he would apply his words about protecting his country and fighting terrorism to our people in Eretz Yisroel…..
someone made a comment he gave himself up Did he?
By the way if he is dead it is BARUCH DIN HAEMES.
Hashem takes care of our enemies that is his din at leas that is how I feel.
Hashem for some reason wants this to be under
President Obama victory. Will any one at least
acknowledge presidents Bushes Hard effort for
all that he was trying to achieve?
Lets hope this is a real death and he isn’t hiding somewhere with Presidents agreement.
Lets hope there next leader will not take
revenge in ways we can’t even imagine.
Lets hope that Mossiach tzadkanu is on the way today.
May he rest in pieces
The first thing one ought to do is(take a glass of expensive wine and)make a Bracha SHEHECHIYANU and HATOV VE’HAMEITIV.
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Oh well, its all go here in England, ??? ????? for Will and Kate at lunchtime today and then a ???? visit in Pakistan tomorrow.
So who is going to distribute candies to the children in the streets?
#3, why?
Is someone sitting Shiva for Bin Laden, Yemach Shemo V’Zichrono?
The birth certificate that was released last week was Osama’s. That had to kill him to get the birth certificate to use for the president. It was an easy photo shop job to change the name. After all, the difference between Obama and Osama is only two letters.
hmm how can we spin this against Obama? Oh i know… what kind of sick muslim kills his own people!?
I heard three american bochurim were involved…
something to do with a bein hazmanim trip….
I think it would have been preferable to capture him ALIVE, and “debrief” him the Richtiger way, and have him give up some secrets. Then have him stand trial and execute him. That would have been a MUCH more classy handling of the matter.
they should have feed that mass murderer to the pigs
OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS SHOT & KILLED on May 1
Hitler YEMACH SHEMAM COMMITED Suicide on May 1
put the english date of 5-1 together & get the wake-up message straight from Hashem. you get 51, which chapter in Tehillim is chapter 51? The chaper of Teshuva (repentance) when will klal yisroel wake up & do teshuva? just how many more tragedies CV will have to happen before we do teshuva? IS THIS MESSAGE & SIGN-straight from Hashem-ENOUGH or does klal yisroel need more Tzaros to get them to wake up & do Teshuva?