It was the head of the White House, Barak Obama, in person who announced this news very early this morning. »Bin Laden was killed on Sunday in Pakistan during an American commando operation,” reports AFP.
“Tonight, I am able to announce to the Americans and to the world that the United States has carried out an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader, a terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent people,” said Obama.
The death of Bin Laden aroused emotion and joy in New York and Washington where “thousands of Americans gathered spontaneously, in front of the White House, Sunday evening, to shout their joy”.
The Internet and televisions are currently showing, in a loop, “the partially disfigured face of a man they presented as Bin Laden, without being able to authenticate the image,”.
