COCHRAN STATEMENT ON DEMISE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), the ranking Republican member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, today issued the following statement regarding the death of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader who masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 and other prior deadly assaults on U.S. targets:

“I am enormously grateful to the American military and intelligence operations that brought Osama bin Laden to justice.  I hope bin Laden’s demise will bring some measure of comfort to all Americans and people around the world whose lives were changed forever by his brand of evil.  He is no more.  We must, however, continue to be vigilant against the acts of terrorism and violence espoused by bin Laden and al-Qaeda.”

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