{"id":415697,"date":"2011-05-02T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/world-safer-without-bin-laden-obama\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:42:20","slug":"world-safer-without-bin-laden-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/world-safer-without-bin-laden-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"World ‘safer’ without Bin Laden – Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 May 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 15:42 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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US President Barack Obama has hailed the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden as a “good day for America,” saying the world is now a safer and a better place.<\/p>\n

Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US special forces on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.<\/p>\n

He is believed to have ordered the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001, as well as a number of other deadly bombings.<\/p>\n

He topped the US “most wanted” list.<\/p>\n

But his details on the list have now been updated with a simple banner indicating his current status: “Deceased”.<\/p>\n

DNA tests carried out after the operation indicated with “99.9%” certainty that the man shot dead was Osama Bin Laden, US officials said.<\/p>\n

He was buried at sea after a Muslim funeral on board an aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea, Pentagon officials said.<\/p>\n

The US has put its embassies around the world on alert, warning Americans of the possibility of al-Qaeda reprisal attacks for Bin Laden’s killing.<\/p>\n

CIA director Leon Panetta said al-Qaeda would “almost certainly” try to avenge the death of Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

The US president’s chief counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan said that al-Qaeda, though weakened, remained a danger.<\/p>\n

“It may be a mortally wounded tiger but it still has some life in it,” he said.<\/p>\n

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As news of Bin Laden’s death was being digested around the world, President Obama said: “Today we are reminded that as a nation there is nothing we can’t do”.<\/p>\n

Bin Laden, 54, approved the 9\/11 attacks in which nearly 3,000 people died.<\/p>\n

He evaded the forces of the US and its allies for almost a decade, despite a $25m (\u00a315m) bounty on his head.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, US forces said to be from the elite Navy Seal Team Six undertook the operation in Abbottabad, 100km (62 miles) north-east of Islamabad.<\/p>\n

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Counter-Terrorism advisor John Brennan: “The minutes passed like days”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

US officials said Bin Laden was shot in the head after resisting.<\/p>\n

The compound in Abbottabad is just a few hundred metres from the Pakistan Military Academy – the country’s equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool in Abbottabad says it will undoubtedly be a huge embarrassment to Pakistan that Bin Laden was found not only in the country, but also on the doorstep of the military academy.<\/p>\n

Pakistan was only notified of the operation once US forces had left its airspace.<\/p>\n

Mr Brennan said it was “inconceivable” that Bin Laden did not have a support system in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to pursue all leads to find out exactly what type of support system and benefactors that Bin Laden might have had,” he said.<\/p>\n

However, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said co-operation from Pakistan helped lead the Americans to Bin Laden.<\/p>\n

Bin Laden’s body was consigned to the sea after a burial service on the USS Carl Vinson.<\/p>\n

“The deceased’s body was washed and then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag. A military officer read prepared religious remarks which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker,” a US defence official said.<\/p>\n

“After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased’s body eased into the sea,” the official said.<\/p>\n

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US President Barack Obama: “This is a good day for America”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Photographs of Bin Laden’s body have not been released.<\/p>\n

The head of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Sunni Islam’s most important seat of learning, condemned the decision to dispose of the body at sea.<\/p>\n

Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb said it was an affront which ran “contrary to the principles of Islamic laws, religious values and humanitarian customs”.<\/p>\n

As the news spread, crowds gathered outside the White House in Washington DC and Ground Zero, in New York, chanting “USA, USA”.<\/p>\n

In Pakistan, about 100 people took part in a protest in the western city of Quetta, burning a US flag and chanting anti-American slogans.<\/p>\n

Mrs Clinton said the operation sent a signal to the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

“You cannot wait us out, you cannot defeat us, but you can make the choice to abandon al-Qaeda and participate in a peaceful political process,” she said.<\/p>\n

And she said there was “no better rebuke to al-Qaeda and its heinous ideology” than the peaceful uprisings across the Arab world against authoritarian governments.<\/p>\n

Giving more details of the raid, one senior US official said a small US team conducted the attack in about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

Three other men – one of Bin Laden’s sons and two couriers – and a woman, were killed in the raid, the official said.<\/p>\n

Speaking later, Mr Brennan said that the woman who died was believed to be Bin Laden’s wife.<\/p>\n

“She served as a shield,” he said, adding: “It was unclear is she was put there, or if she put herself there.”<\/p>\n

He confirmed that US commandos on the raid had been ready to take the al-Qaeda leader alive, if that had been possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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