WASHINGTON (RNN) - DNA testing confirms the man responsible for the planning of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the central figure in the al-Qaeda terrorist operation, Osama bin Laden, has been killed by U.S. forces.
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"This is a good day for America," President Barack Obama said Monday during a previously scheduled Medal of Honor ceremony.
DNA was not the only evidence that confirms bin Laden's death, according to the Associated Press (AP). Matching physical features of the his recovered body, a detailed CIA photo analysis and the testimonies of those at the scene all back up the government's genetic testing.
"There should be no doubt in anybody's mind, this is Osama bin Laden," a government official said to the AP.
Obama announced late Sunday night that bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan in a firefight with U.S. forces.
"The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al-Qaeda. His death does not mark the end of our effort," Obama said.
A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity said bin Laden's burial would be handled according to Islamic tradition, which required burial within 24 hours, the AP reported.
However, muslim clerics said bin Laden's burial at sea is not in accordance with tradition, the AP reported.
"The Americans want to humiliate Muslims through this burial, and I don't think this is in the interest of the U.S. administration," said Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric in Lebanon, told the AP.
The U.S. government says it would have been difficult to find a country willing to take bin Laden's body, for fear it would create a permanent shrine. Unconfirmed reports indicate that two countries turned down requests to claim the body: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
It remains unclear if the U.S. government will provide photographic evidence of bin Laden's dead body. (ATC Says .....oh I am sure they eventually will, after all it took us 2 1/2 years to see a birth certificate....I am sure at some point when it is politically expedient and beneficial to Obongo, as was the case with the a fore mentioned item, it will be).
Leads on bin Laden's whereabouts first surfaced last August, Obama said Sunday, but they was "far from certain." After several meetings last week, he and his national security team finally had enough intelligence to take action.
According to senior Obama administration officials, bin Laden was located in a $1 million compound in Pakistan.
"Intelligence analysts determined this compound was custom built to hide someone of significance," the official said. "Everything we saw was perfectly consistent with what experts expected bin Laden's compound to look like."
He noted it also had no phone or internet access.
In a 40-minute raid, bin Laden was killed, as well as three adult men, two believed to be couriers and a third, bin Laden's adult son. A woman was also killed when she was used as a shield by a combatant within the compound.
The administration officials say the intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts was not shared with any other country and only a few people within the ranks of the U.S. government knew about the operation in advance.
The president called it "a good and historic day."
"We can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al-Qaeda's terror, justice has been done," Obama said.
"Let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores."
Bin Laden was widely regarded as public enemy No. 1 of the U.S.
"Well, this is a terrific day for America, and quite frankly the whole world that cares about winning the war on terror," said Andy Card, chief of staff of former President George W. Bush, to ABC.
Throngs of people gathered outside the White House Sunday evening and sang the national anthem and Queen's "We Are the Champions."
Before the announcement was made, U.S. military installations were placed on heightened alert in preparation for possible retaliation.
"There's no doubt that al-Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us," Obama said. "We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad."
According to MSA Security, however, the fate of Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, remains unknown at the current time.
"Zawahiri is widely believed to be the driving force for al-Qaeda operations worldwide," said the intelligence agency in a news release issued Monday morning.
The death of bin Laden comes almost 10 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan.
Bin Laden is also wanted by the FBI in connection with a trio of bombings on U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks, which killed more than 200, occurred on Aug. 7, 1998.
The FBI advertised a $25 million reward for information leading to Bin Laden's capture.
ATC Says - I will not believe it until I see the body.......Why the delay in the release of the photo? This sure is a good distraction for the sheeple, they are celebrating at ground zero, just wait folks and your memory will come back to you about how this president has gone out of his way to wreck this country.........just wait till the new higher taxes kick in and then there's retaliatory strikes on US soil .......oh, and gas hits $7 a gallon
BREAKING NEWS ON FOX.....now they are giving him a burial at sea (in accordance with Islamic tradition of course), so they release news that the DNA tests are a positive match they are him (Osama), they don't release a photo for the public to see, and we're just supossed to trust them and take their work for it?
Don't worry folks your government wouldn't lie to you or create a series of circumstances tailored to sway your allegiance or opinion now would they? Move along nothing to see here.....Ignore the men behind the curtain!
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