OBAMA: AL-QAIDA LEADER OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD

President Obama praises those Americans who carried out the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, tells the families of the victims of 9/11 that they have never been forgotten, and calls on Americans to remember the unity following that day during an address from the White House, May 1, 2011.

White House photo by Chuck Kennedy

An intelligence-driven U.S. operation in Pakistan killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama announced in a nationally televised address from the White House, May 1, 2011.

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  • President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor posthumously to U.S. Army Pfc. Henry Svehla during a ceremony at the White House, May 2, 2011. Svehla's sister, Dorothy Mathews, accepted the medal for the family. White House photo by Pete Souza
  • President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor posthumously to U.S. Army Pfc. Anthony T. Kaho'ohanohano during a ceremony at the White House, May 2, 2011. Kaho'ohanohano's nephew, George Kago'ohanohano, accepted the medal for the family. White House photo by Pete Souza
  • U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left center, meets with Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd, right center, at the Pentagon, May 2, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen
  • Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates meets with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki at the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen
  • Left to right, Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould; Chief of Staff for the Veterans Affairs Department John R. Gingrich; Marine Corps Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III meet at the Veterans Affairs Department in Washington, D.C., May 2, 2011. DOD photo by Cherie Cullen
  • “Justice has been done,” President Barack Obama said in announcing the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. military operation in Pakistan, May 1, 2011. The attack ends a manhunt of almost 10 years. Bin Laden and his henchmen planned and executed the 9/11 attacks that killed 3,000 innocent Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. White House photo by Chuck Kennedy
  • U.S. Marine Corps veterans Mike Demo, center, and Bill Cortese, right, drove 30 minutes to New York's Ground Zero, May 2, 2011, to mark the news of Osama bin Laden's death. Two of Cortese's cousins were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. The Freedom Tower, the skyscraper being built where the World Trade Center towers once stood, is now 60 stories tall and was lit up and visible from the street. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Randall Clinton
  • A crowd cheers at the corner of Vesey and Liberty streets next to Ground Zero in New York, May 2, 2011, after hearing news of Osama bin Laden's death. Bin Laden planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and has been hunted by American forces in the years since. The Freedom Tower, the skyscraper being built where the World Trade Center towers once stood, is now 60 stories tall and visible from the street. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Randall Clinton
  • U.S. service members on Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan watch President Barack Obama's May 2, 2011 televised address on the details of the death of Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the United States. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester
  • Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, greets U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shasha Maria-Martin before Florida State University's commencement ceremony in Tallahassee, Fla., April 30, 2011. Martin, a twice-deployed Iraq veteran, graduated with a degree in International Relations. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley
  • U.S Marines patrol along the Helmand River after visiting a local school in the Garmsir district in Afghanistan's Helmand province, April 26, 2011. The Marines are assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Colby Brown
  • U.S. Army Spc. Robert Boettner carries a child's bike from the rubble of a home in the Crescent Ridge area of Tuscaloosa, Ala., April 30, 2011. Boettner is assigned to the 31st Chemical Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Katherine Dowd

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