The battle against Al-Qaeda continues despite Osama Bin Laden's death, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on her first foreign visit since the US raid that killed him.
"Let us not forget that the battle to stop Al-Qaeda and its affiliates does not end with one death.
We have to renew our resolve," Clinton said at a joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini.
"The death of Bin Laden deals a significant strategic blow to Al-Qaeda," she said, adding: "His ideology of hatred and violence is thankfully being rejected in what we see going on in the Middle East and Africa."
"Our resolve is even stronger following Bin Laden's death because we know it will have an impact on those who are in the battlefield in Afghanistan."
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She described the 38 minute duration of the operation to kill Bin Laden, which she followed in real time alongside President Barack Obama and other senior officials at the White House, were "the most intense" of her life.
"His death will make our country and the world safer. We are builders not destroyers," she added.
