SBS50: Biggest Story 2011

PAKISTAN OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLING AFTERMATH

EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN Credit: MD NADEEM/EPA

After almost ten years searching for Al Queada frontman Osama Bin Laden, in May Barack Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed during a secret U-S military raid on an Al Qaeda safehouse in Pakistan.


After almost ten years searching for Al Qaeda frontman Osama Bin Laden, in May Barack Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed during a secret U-S military raid on an Al Qaeda safehouse in Pakistan.
Barack Obama
While Islamabad responded angrily over the breach of their sovereignty, crowds cheered outside of the white house, and in Australia, Prime Minister Julia Gillard described the moment as the end of a terrible chapter.
We remember the 10 Australians who lost their lives on the 11th of September, 2001. We remember the 88 Australians who lost their lives in Bali in October 2002.
Julia Gillard
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