May Day: Both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1
Osama bin Laden is dead: killed in US raid in Pakistan
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by US special forces in a 'kill not capture' raid in Pakistan, which Hillary Clinton said meant justice had been done.
A similar crowd had gathered near Ground Zero in New York, where bin Laden's diabolical plan had seen terrorists plunge two airplanes into the twin World Trade Center towers, killing nearly 3000 people, and bringing America to its knees. But the United States had stood up, and now had its foot on the head of the key perpetrator after a daring commando operation half the world away. Retribution had been obtained. Or as their President said on television a few moments ago, "Justice had been done.
The News went with "ROT IN HELL" while the NY Times' headine ended up being, "BIN LADEN KILLED BY U.S. FORCES IN PAKISTAN, OBAMA SAYS, DECLARING JUSTICE HAS BEEN DONE." The NY Post said, "GOT HIM," Newsday settled with "DEAD" and the Star-Ledger referenced Obama's address, "Justice has been done.
At about 10:30 that night a Hamburg Radio announcer broadcast that Hitler had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany," according to the BBC's website. Around 11:30 on May 1, 2011, Obama interrupted nighttime television broadcasts to announce bin Laden had been killed in a military operation.
US personnel identified Bin Laden's body by facial recognition. Officials declined to say whether DNA was also used, but there are claims that DNA was matched with that of his sister who died in Boston last year.
No photograph of the body was issued, although a faked image did surface in Pakistan.
This was America's World Cup moment, a time for sheer joy and relief, matching the famed end of the World War. A cowardly, despicable, hated enemy had been hunted down and killed in the true western way.
Three other men were killed in what a senior Obama administration official described as "a surgical raid by a small team designed to minimise collateral damage.
But the bragging right was tempered with grace. Soon after nailing America's public enemy # 1, he had phoned his predecessors Bush and Clinton, to inform them of the deed done. In the moment of triumph, he reaffirmed that the ''The United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam.
A helicopter involved in the raid suffered mechanical failure and was blown up by the American team, none of whom were killed or injured. The Pakistani government was not informed of the raid until after it was over.
At a broader international level, America's pride and honor, seen to have diminished in the decade after 9/11, is on track to being restored. ''This is America; We get the job done,'' grated Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was the New York Senator during 9/11, warning terrorists that ''you cannot hide from us, you cannot wait us out.
The compound, in Abbotabad, some 35 miles from Islamabad, was built in 2005 and appears to have been the bin Laden family residence for some time. It sits just a stone's throw from an army base in Abbottabad, described as "Pakistan's Sandhurst", about 50 miles from the capital Islamabad.
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