Osama Bin Laden Killed

The White House has announced that notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden has been killed. The United States has been trying to kill Bin Laden for more than a decade.

You can get live updates on the news from the BBC.

Here is what Twitter is saying about the news:

Here are reactions on the death of Osama Bin Laden posted at BBC Arabic
Florance – France
I do not think that killing bin Laden would change a lot on the ground. Many resemble Bin Laden as the despotic regimes, which exercise oppression and murder against their people in broad daylight and the world is silent on their committed crimes. An example of these regimes is the Syrian. What is the difference between the state terrorism committed by Assad’s regime against the people in Deraa and Bin Laden’s terrorism?

Mohammed Hussein – Egypt
The seriousness of organizations, such as al-Qaeda, it adopts thoughts and ideologies, but not seemed to have a central command for planning and funding. This means that Osama Bin Laden was a spiritual leader and not an organizational one, at least during the past 10 years. I hope that the news of his death will not be an incentive for organizations associated with the ideas of al-Qaeda to carry out retaliatory operations where innocent people are killed.

Amro Waheed – Egypt
His death came at the right time; the Arab peoples no longer need to al-Qaeda and they refuse the United States intervention. If the United States wanted to win the ware over Al-Qaeda, it shall first go out and immediately from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and let the people choose their own destinies.

Alaa Al-Dardour – Jordan
The death of Osama Bin Laden does not mean the death of al-Qaeda, during our follow-up of recent years, we find that Osama Bin Laden is suffering from an incurable disease since seven years, and the first man is Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Qaeda’s ideology is not only a specific person, but rather a school of thought which is adopted by a number of people.

Samia – Tunisia
What would Washington do with other al-Qaeda organizations: they are based in many locations as Somalia, North Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Afghanistan? Which achievements Obama is talking about?

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