Osama bin Laden is dead

Osama bin Laden is dead President Barack Obama will announce that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States, is dead, according to US media outlets.

The expected announcement marks the end of a nearly 10 year search for the man who represented the face of radical Islamist terrorism. CNN and other US media outlets reported that the US was in possession of Mr bin Laden’s body, moments before Mr Obama was to due to speak in an impromptu address to the nation.

The leader of al-Qaeda became a household name following the 2001 attacks against the US, in which four American airliners were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York, and into the Pentagon in Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
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