Reports: Obama to announce Osama bin Laden is dead
May 2nd, 2011 - 9:43 am ICT by BNO NewsWASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to announce on late Sunday evening that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan, nearly 10 years after the devastating attacks of September 11.
The White House confirmed that Obama would hold an unprecedented late-night news conference, but gave no details. All the major news networks in the United States cited sources saying that Bin Laden had been killed.
According to Fox News, Osama bin Laden was killed over a week ago by a U.S. missile in Pakistan. CBS News, NBC News and CNN also said that Bin Laden’s body is in possession of the United States.
Osama is believed to be behind a number of major terrorist attacks, most notably the attacks of September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people from scores of countries.
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