At 11:00pm EST on May 1, 2011, President Barack H. Obama stood in front of the press, the nation and the world in the East Room of the White House and announced that after a covert military operation instituted in Pakistan, approved by himself, Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda and orchestrator of the September 11 attacks, was killed.
President Obama authorized an attack on a compound occupied by Bin Laden and family earlier on the first of May. After a gun fight ensued, Bin Laden was shot through the head and his body was taken into the custody of the United States.
DNA and forensics testing confirmed that the dead man was indeed 6 foot 4 inch Osama bin Laden.
News spread very quickly, even before the it was released on television news stations. People from the White House to Ground Zero poured into the streets to celebrate an American victory in the War against Terrorism.
The killing of Osama bin Laden is both the long-awaited victory of the Bush Administration and the legacy of the Obama Administration. It is closure for all those who lost lives or experienced the horror of the September 11 attacks and is the beginning of the end of the reign of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
In the words of President Obama: "Justice has been done".
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