Obama Announces Death of Osama bin Laden (Video)

in Current Affairs, History | May 1st, 2011 22 Comments

It’s news and it’s instant his­tor­i­cal footage. Tonight, Pres­i­dent Oba­ma announced that Osama bin Laden, the mas­ter­mind behind the 9/11 attacks, was killed Sun­day by US forces in Pak­istan, right out­side of Islam­abad (and, in a for­ti­fied man­sion, no less). The US began search­ing for bin Laden back in 1998, fol­low­ing the bomb­ing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tan­za­nia. 13 years lat­er, the pur­suit of Al Qaeda’s leader is over…


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  • Ashish Kumar says:
    May 2, 2011 at 9:50 am

    Thanks for shar­ing the news…

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  • Guest says:
    May 2, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    Osama bin Laden, the co-called mas­ter­mind of the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks that killed 3,000 peo­ple. The US Gov­ern­ment has since killed more than 100,000 civil­ians in Iraq. Who’s the ter­ror­ist?

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  • Guest says:
    May 2, 2011 at 7:22 pm

    Osama bin Laden, the co-called mas­ter­mind of the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks that killed 3,000 peo­ple. The US Gov­ern­ment has since killed more than 100,000 civil­ians in Iraq. Who’s the ter­ror­ist?

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    • Jrsccr9 says:
      May 2, 2011 at 11:14 pm

      your an idiot were at war in there turf he hijacked a plane and issued an act off ter­ror­ism. were not killing civil­ians for the hell of it.…

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      • Gotenks1023 says:
        May 3, 2011 at 10:42 am

        your both dumb.. osama had noth­ing to do with 9/11 he just praised it.. he nev­er claimed it infact said he DIDNT do it.. he was want­ed for all the oth­er killings but 9/11 is just a rea­son we need­ed to invade.. this is proven on the FBI most want­ed list list­ing his crimes every­thing BUT 9/11 he did not mas­ter mind it.. there are oth­er ter­ror­ist besides him you kno..

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        • guest1111 says:
          May 4, 2011 at 1:48 am

          so your call­ing the whole amer­i­can race dumb even the pres­i­dent cus we all refer to him as the mas­ter mind behind 9/11

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          • Crunchytoast420 says:
            May 4, 2011 at 7:43 pm

            yes the amer­i­can pop­u­la­tion or “race” as you ref­fer to it is very very stu­pid, the major­i­ty is any­way

    • Ryan says:
      May 3, 2011 at 8:15 pm

      they brought it on them selves.they hide in the city not us

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    • ruth says:
      May 3, 2011 at 9:33 pm

      3000 t0 1000 NOT GOOD enough patri­ot

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    • ryan says:
      May 4, 2011 at 1:24 pm

      fuck you

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    • ryan says:
      May 4, 2011 at 1:24 pm

      fuck you

      Reply
  • Guest says:
    May 2, 2011 at 11:44 pm

    Oba­ma bin Laden

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  • Mexicansmallz says:
    May 3, 2011 at 2:48 am

    osama bin ladens the ter­ror­ist idiot lol

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  • Rootrudee says:
    May 3, 2011 at 8:26 am

    Does any­body feel the same uneasi­ness as I do at the sight of peo­ple laugh­ing, singing and danc­ing in the streets because of the death of OBL? Some­how I can­not ignore the uncan­ny resem­blance to pic­tures of mus­lims danc­ing in the streets because of the death of just anoth­er offend­ing unbe­liev­er of west­ern ori­gins.

    The accom­plish­ments of the Age of Enlight­en­ment seem to have been cast over­board even in west­ern civil­i­sa­tions.

    Silent con­tent­ment? Yes, def­i­nite­ly.
    Out­bursts of joy? No, why …?

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    • Anonymous says:
      May 4, 2011 at 1:24 am

      This is the EXACT same thing I’ve been say­ing! I dis­cussed with few peo­ple, and this is just prov­ing how imma­ture Amer­i­cans can be because they’re SOOO about them­selves & being “patri­ot­ic”. I get it, yes final­ly. He’s dead, we’re less “fear­ful”. But our coun­try is always going to have some prob­lem with some oth­er what­ev­er. It’ll nev­er change. It’s so old. I’m tired of hear­ing it, already.

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    • Anonymous says:
      May 4, 2011 at 1:24 am

      This is the EXACT same thing I’ve been say­ing! I dis­cussed with few peo­ple, and this is just prov­ing how imma­ture Amer­i­cans can be because they’re SOOO about them­selves & being “patri­ot­ic”. I get it, yes final­ly. He’s dead, we’re less “fear­ful”. But our coun­try is always going to have some prob­lem with some oth­er what­ev­er. It’ll nev­er change. It’s so old. I’m tired of hear­ing it, already.

      Reply
  • Rse says:
    May 4, 2011 at 12:30 am

    c

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  • guest says:
    May 4, 2011 at 2:01 am

    Amer­i­ca, Fuck ya!

    Reply
  • Shitfaced says:
    May 4, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    Sad­dam Hus­sein, Osama Bin Ladden.….who’s miss­ing? GWB?? lol

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  • Pittpensalltheway says:
    May 5, 2011 at 12:13 am

    Fuck Osama Bin Laden

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  • Austin says:
    July 29, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    As soon i heard that we kill Osama Bin Laden i was so fuck­ing hap­py and hope­ful­ly that bitch is rot­ting in HELL where he belongs

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  • Austin says:
    July 29, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Also it hap­pen while the Phils were play­ing the Mets

    Reply

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