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Osama bin Laden killed

Crowds at the World Trade Centre.
  • Crowds at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Spontaneous crowds gather at the World Trade Centre.
  • Crowds gather outside the World Trade Centre at around 2-3am in Manhattan.
  • Crowds gather in Manhattan at Ground Zero - the site where the Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack on 9/11.
  • Crowds celebrate the news outside the White House.
  • People cheer and wave US flags outside the White House.
  • A flash mob gathers at the White House gates.
  • Crowds celebrate bin Laden's death outside the White House in Washington.
  • US Marines watch President Barack Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden.
  • South Koreans watch a TV broadcasting a report of Osama bin Laden's death.
  • A Canadian soldier based in Afghanistan reacts to the news.
  • Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden.
  • Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a 1998 file photo in Afghanistan.
  • The attack on the World Trade Center in new York, masterminded by Osama bin laden. September 11, 2001
  • This undated file photo shows al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan.
  • Osama bin Laden speaks in a video released on a web site in September, 2007. Bin Laden said in the video issued ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power.
  • This image provided in 2007 by IntelCenter shows a video frame broadcast by al-Qaeda featuring Osama Bin Laden.
  • Osama bin Laden talks at a news conference in Afghanistan in this 1998 file photo.
  • A TV grab taken 7 September 2006 shows al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed time and place.
  • This undated photo taken in an unknown location shows Osama Bin Laden (centre), Ayman Al-Zawahiri (left), a physician and the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and Muhammad Atef.
  • Pictures of Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden on Interpol's wanted list on September 15, 2001.
  • A television grab of footage released on April 15, 2002, shows Osama bin Laden (right), the chief suspect in September 11's attacks on the United States. The other man is unidentified.
  • A man at a Madrid supermarket walks past TV sets on December 13, 2001, with the Spanish TVE 9.00 p.m. news broadcast showing the recently released video of Osama bin Laden.
  • Osama bin Laden, at left, is shown in this frame grab from a videotape released and translated by the Department of Defense, at the Pentagon, on December 13, 2001. The man at right is unidentified.
  • Osama bin Laden, second from left, with top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri, second from right, and Egyptian Islamic militant Mohammed Atef, right, at an undisclosed location in a television grab broadcast on October 7, 2001.
  • Jake Smith looks through a rifle at Tactical Edge, a gun shop and gun range at targets of Osama bin Laden in Riviera Beach, Florida.
  • Saudi-born guerrilla leader Osama bin Laden aims a weapon at an unnamed location on an undated video obtained by Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai al-Aam on June 20, 2001.
  • New York police near a wanted poster printed by on a full page of a New York newspaper for Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden in the financial district of New York, on September 18, 2001.
Selected quotes attributed to Osama bin Laden, whose death was announced by US President Barack Obama.
"America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings."
- October 7, 2001, after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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"Acquiring weapons for the defence of Muslims is a religious duty ... If I seek to acquire these weapons, I am carrying out a duty."
- December 1998, when asked by an interviewer for Timemagazine whether he had acquired chemical or nuclear weapons.
"The war is between us and the Jews. Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame."
- May 2002, from a video released to several news organisations.
"Free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike Sweden, for example."
- October 2004, in a videotape broadcast on Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera, referring to then US president George Bush.
"Those who want to solve our problems at the UN are hypocrites ... Those who claim to be Arab leaders and whose countries are UN members are infidels."
- November 2001, from a videotape obtained by al-Jazeera.
"We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before."
- February 2003, from an audiotape obtained by al-Jazeera.
"We reserve the right to retaliate ... against all countries that take part in this unjust war, namely Britain, Spain, Australia, Poland, Japan and Italy."
- October 2003, from another audiotape obtained by al-Jazeera, referring to the war in Iraq.
"I present a reconciliation initiative ... whose essence is our commitment to stop operations against all [allied] countries if they promise not to be aggressive towards Muslims or interfere in their affairs."
- April 2004, from an audio message obtained by the al-Arabiya TV channel.
"Their rejection of Hamas after it had won the election ... confirms that there is a Crusader-Zionist war against Muslims."
- April 2006, from an audiotape obtained by al-Jazeera, referring to the reactions of Israel and Western states after Palestinian elections.
"These operations are being prepared and you will see them in your heartland when they are ready."
- January 2006, from an audio message threatening new attacks on the United States, obtained by al-Jazeera.
"Jihad will continue even if I am not around."
- Late September 2001, in an interview with a Pakistani newspaper.
AFP