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In the city of Quetta in the lawless southwestern province of Baluchistan, hundreds of demonstrators assembled on the streets to honor Osama and to demand vengeance against the US

Pakistan’s security apparatus protected Osama Bin Laden for almost ten years, according to US government documents unearthed by WikiLeaks and first reported by the Daily Telegraph of UK.

Following the spectacular killing of Osama Bin Laden in a hideaway near the capital city of Islamabad, senior figures of Pakistan’s government reportedly convened a high-level meeting to discuss the ramifications of his death, according to a report in The Nation, an English language Pakistani daily.

The fact that Osama Bin Laden was found living in Pakistan after all these years of denials by Islamabad officials has many prominent people in the U.S. angry and concerned, including Senator Carl Levin, who also happens to the chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee

The following is the full text of US President Barack Obama's announcement that the US has killed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Meet Ayman al-Zawahir, al-Qaeda's newest likely top commander.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a speech on Monday after the U.S. announced it had killed Osama bin Laden, said the U.S. and allies would continue to take the fight to al-Qaida and the Taliban, saying you cannot defeat us.

The recent killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan harkens back to a statement made last summer by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that the Islamabad government knew the whereabouts of the Al Qaeda chief.

Al Qaeda ideologue and mastermind of Sept. 2011 Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces on Sunday in a town two hours from Pakistan capital Islamabad raising questions about the U.S.-Pakistan ties.

Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was born in March 10 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was the 17th of 52 children Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, had.

Here is a selection of comments from prominent global figures on news of the death of Osama Bin Laden:

The president addressed the nation on Sunday night.

Text of White House's official statement on Osama Bin Laden's death by President Obama: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

President Barack Obama on Sunday announced that the U.S. had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Osama Bin Laden's death is being celebrated, and everyone seems to repeat the conspiracy theory that he was indeed the mastermind behind the terror attacks of 9/11. But that was never proven, and there is not even evidence hinting at such a connection according to the FBI. It is very well possible that completely different organizations than al-Qaeda were responsible for the planning and execution of 9/11, and that the latter were merely one of the involved parties.

President of United States Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden on Sunday night.

President Obama on late Sunday night announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks that triggered the U.S. global war on terror.

President Obama on late Sunday night announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks that triggered the U.S. global war on terror. Obama declared, Justice has been done.

Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US forces, President Barack Obama announced.

Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday.

German prosecutors allege that one of the three men arrested on Friday on suspicions of planning a bomb attack received his orders from a senior al-Qaeda figure from the Afghan-Pakistan border.