1000506 A Strike Against Terror

A Strike Against Terror

President Barack Obama announced the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden on Sunday night

By Brenda Iasevoli

Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda, was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces on Sunday night in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The military operation took about 40 minutes. No Americans were killed. The world's most-wanted terrorist was tracked down in a hideout about 90 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. U.S. helicopters carried about two dozen troops into the compound, which is surrounded by 18-foot-high walls and topped with barbed wire. Bin Laden was killed, officials said, after he and his bodyguards resisted the assault.

"Justice has been done," President Barack Obama said in a television appearance late Sunday night.

Why Bin Laden?

Bin Laden's death marks the end of a 10-year search that began after the September 11 attacks by al-Qaeda, the terrorist group he founded. Hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City, and into the Pentagon—headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense—in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed into the Pennsylvania countryside. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks.

Al-Qaeda was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots.

"We have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time," Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, wrote in a memo to employees. Panetta was in charge of the military team during the operation, according to one official.

Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Obama said the world is safer after the death of bin Laden. "We can all agree that this is a good day for America," he said.

Max- Osama bin Laden is a very bad terrorist. His founded group of terrorists had done a lot of scary things, including the America World Trade Center attack, that his group flew planes and crushed the twin towers and died a lot of people. There are also some more things that bin Laden could make. Right now, bin Laden has been killed by the American Navy SEAL. It took only 40 minutes to kill him at his own villa where he was staying. After they killed bin Laden, I saw a news report that bin Laden’s villa can let him die earlier because of the villa’s four sharp edges, which I saw some people thought they are like knives that can kill him earlier. But the bad thing is the group of terrorists is not stopping to keep attack of bin Laden’s death because they had found a new leader which is also like bin Laden. Is the terror not going to stop? Even it is not going to stop, killing bin Laden is just a very good thing to announce in the White House.