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THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

REACTION IN NEW YORK Visitors reflect at World Tr Center sit By ROD LOCKWOOD BLADE STAFF WRITER NEW YORK — When t broke that Osama Bin Lade nally dead, Greg Packer m journey to Ground Zero fr Island. Gary Gone, a retired cons worker who worked on th Trade Center site decades a from the Bronx. NEW YORK TIMES Actor Jack McGee took a break from filming an episode of Law and Paddy Garvey places an American flag at a construction area at the Order and spent a couple of hours World Trade Center site hours after President Obama announced ref lecting,the that Osama bin Laden had been killed. butt of a cigar jutting from his minutes. provesthere is justice for terrorists craggy face. Mr. Packer and Mr. Gone posedno matter how long it takes to bring T he yw ere for pictures holding copies of theit to fruition. “You can run, but you l i k et en sof New York Post with the construc-can’t hide,” he said. thousands tion work to replace the buildingsAt St. Paul’s Church in the shad- of New York- destroyed by terrorists on Sept. 11,ow of the Ground Zero site in Low- ers who were 2001, going on in the background.er Manhattan, a steady stream of draw nto the “It’s beautiful,” Mr. Packer said,visitors strolled through, looking at former World adding that he would’ve been glad9/11-related exhibits. They were si- Trade Center- to do the work of the Navy SEALSlent as a bell tolled in four sets of site Monday, Jack McGee who killed Bin Laden in a Paki-five chimes, the New York Fire the area teem- stan mansion Sunday. “It was a cel-Department’s signal for a fallen ing with humanity and news media ebration and it’s the beginning ofcomrade. for perhaps no other reason than if many more things to come. I wish IThe pastor delivered a short ser- you were in New York on this gray, would’ve been the one that put it invice, noting the death of Bin Laden chilly day, Ground Zero seemed like him.” the right place to be, if only for a few Mr. Gone said Bin Laden’s death SeeNEW YORK, Page e4 +

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PAKISTAN

Abbottabad AlQaeda leader Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. AFGHAN. forces Kyber Pakhtunkhwa Kabul INDIA Peshawar Islamabad PAKISTAN 200 miles

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ATTACKS LINKED TO BIN LADEN W hiteHouse thought bin Laden La Terrorist attacks with actual or suspected links to Osama would resist but that there was a “re- “ Sept. 11, 2001Nov. 28, 2002 bin Laden’s terrorist network between 1992 and 2002: mote” possibility he could be cap- wa Hijacked jetlinersBomb at Israeli tured alive. Dec. 1992Nov. 1995Aug. 7, 1998 crash into N.Y.hotel in Kenya Mr. Brennan said it only would ter Bombs in Aden,Car bomb nearTruck bombs outside U.S. World Trade Center,kills 16; missile have happened if bin Laden didn’t ha Yemen, kill twocenter operated byembassies in Nairobi, Pentagon and anarrowly misses pose any threat to the Americans vid people, narrowly missU.S. troops in Riyadh,Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Pennsylvania field,Israeli plane sent to take him out. Since he fought inc . Saudi Arabia, kills five100 U.S. troops;Tanzania, kill 224 people; killing more than back, he was killed. Americans U.S.indicts bin Ladenbombers never caught Some of their names were provid- 3,000 It took years for the U.S. military to ed by al-Qaeda members captured track down bin Laden, finding him by the United States. not in a cave in the inaccessible trib- “One courier in particular had our al regions of Pakistan, but in a sump- constant attention,” said a second tuous luxury compound built just senior administration official, who Feb. 1993Oct. 1993June 1996Oct. 21, 2000April 11, 2002Oct. 12, 2002 six years ago in the same city that is declined to release his name, but de- Bomb exploded byAmbush in SomaliaTruck bomb Explosivesladen Blastat Tunisian Bomb explodes home to Pakistan’s most prestigious scribed him as a “protege” of Khalid Islamic militantskills 18 U.S. troops;outside Khobarboat strikes synagogue kills 17; in Bali military academy. Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged ar- under N.Y. WorldUnited StatesTowers indestroyer USS German minister nightclub, The raid that killed him lasted just chitect of the 9/11 attacks who was Trade Center killsindicts bin LadenDhahran, SaudiCole in Aden, links attack killing nearly 40 minutes. captured in Pakistan in March, 2003, six, woundsfor training thoseArabia, kills 19killing 17 crew to Qaeda 200 U.S. officials said the raid involved hundreds involvedU.S. troops a helicopter assault on a compound SeeBIN LADEN, Page e3 SOURCE:Associated Press McCLATCHY

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BLADE NEWS SERVICES in WASHINGTON — Declaring the by killing of Osama bin Laden “a good day for America,” President Obama tea said Monday the world was safer sai without the al-Qaeda terrorist and mo mastermind of the Set. 112001 at-

al, state leaders react emise of terror boss BLADE STAFF vice chairman of the Ohio Home- The spiritual leader of a West To- land Security Advisory Council, said ledo mosque said Monday that bin bin Laden’s death means a lot to the Laden’s death is an opportunity for war on terror. America and Muslims to “make pos- “Everybody’s been waiting anx- itive change in the world.” iously for this to happen,” said Chief Imam Ahmed About Seif of the Wolever, who has been the vice Toledo Muslim Community Center, chairman of the state-level group for West Sylvania Avenue, said about six years. bin Laden was a murderer, “We wanted to see him not a martyr, and that he killed, not die of natural violated Islamic law by tar- causes,” the chief said. “It’s geting civilians. just such an important fac- “Getting rid of Osama, et of the war on terrorism that would be a great op- to bring down the lead- por tunit yfor both the ership. Everybody that’s Muslim people and the been in the military knows U.S. to work together to- that that’s not going to stop ward the same goal,” Mr. the wars, but it means a lot Seif said through an in- to everybody to see the terpreter, Mohammed El Imam Seif people who mastermind- Nahal, chairman of the ed [the terrorist attacks] center’s board of trustees. fall.” “In addition, killing bin He said arresting bin Laden would enable the Laden would have been U.S. to free itself from just a satisfac tor yconclu- working toward bin Laden. sion but said it was widely Wow we have bigger goals predicted that bin Laden to work toward. The people would not allow himself to in the Middle East love the be taken alive. American people. Islam Chief Wolever said bin condemns terrorism.” Laden’s death doesn’t end He said those goals are the threat. He said other to advance the cause of Mike Wolever terrorists will try to take “justice and freedom, and bin Laden’s place. equality.” “Some sect is going to He said people in the Middle East step up and try to make a name for initially looked at bin Laden as a de- themselves,” Mr. Wolever said. fender of their interests, but turned “There may even be an increase in against him because his tactics tar- threat, depending on what analyst geted civilians. Toledo Fire Chief Mike Wolever, SeeREACT, Page e4 +