Politics & Government

Share Your Thoughts on Osama bin Laden's Death

News of the terrorist leader's death broke late Sunday night.

Shortly after 11:30 p.m., President Barack Obama announced the news on national television that Osama bin Laden had died.

"I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that has killed Osama bin Laden," President Obama said in an address to the nation Sunday night.

Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., was said to have been shot while in a remote region of Pakistan, and his body is reported to be in U.S. hands, according to CBS News.

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CNN quoted a senior U.S. official as saying that U.S. forces killed bin Laden in a mansion outside Islamabad.

Some national security experts are calling this a major turning point in the war on terror. What are your thoughts on this development in eliminating the man called the spiritual head of al-Qaida?

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Kathy Amass posted on Catonsville Patch's Facebook page that Sunday was her birthday and although she doesn't like to see others harmed "this will be the best birthday gift ever; I'm a little fearful for the Taliban's potential retaliation, though ..."

Damien Gibbons wrote, "Coming from someone who doesn't support capital punishment, this was long overdue justice."

Rob Hinkal said he is a little concerned about the jubilant reaction.

"I'm watching CNN and I feel that the talking heads aren't reporting on an execution of justice, they're salivating over vengeance," he wrote.

In the Twitter universe, tweets were both serious and funny.

@trishapaine tweeted from Baltimore, "Clinton on Bin Laden's death, 'Find some comfort in the fact that justice has been served.' Thanks goes 2 both parties & of course R troops!"

One quote from Mark Twain was being shared over and over again: "I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”


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