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Live blog | CIA already after bin Laden's new 'most wanted' second in command
Welcome to our live blog - we'll be updating links to news on the death of Osama Bin Laden all throughout the day.
11:55 Computer hard drives and documents seized in Osama bin Laden's compound have been targeted as holding clues to the location of Ayman al-Zawariri, the Al Qaeda head’s deputy - now likely to be named as the world's most wanted man.
US officials say that the Navy SEAL team that raided the bin Laden safehouse recovered a cache of material that will now be decrypted and analysed for details of al-Qaeda operation. A US official said that he was next on the CIA's target list. "That's where we're going next," one official told the Washington Post.
11:48 China welcomed Osama bin Laden’s death while however defending its regional partner Pakistan against accusations it has done too little against terror threats.
"Pakistan stands at the forefront of the international struggle against terrorism," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said. "The Pakistani government's determination to fight terrorism is staunch and its actions have been vigorous. Pakistan has made important contributions to the international struggle against terror.”
09:27 Five ways in which Osama bin Laden changed the immigration landscape on Multiamerican. "A rise in anti-Muslim attitudes: In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes jumped to a record 481 in 2001, according to one news report. The number of hate crimes against Muslims hasn’t been as high since."
09:00 In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said his country was "perhaps the world's greatest victim of terrorism".
The opinion pieces follows in the wake of Bin Laden’s killing by US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad despite how Pakistan was not involved in the raid. US officials said Bin Laden must have had a support system in Pakistan.
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Tarcisio Mifsud, if they are going to dump a body in the sea why would it matter whether it looks like Bin Laden or not? Do you think the jellyfish would recognise him?
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All religions poison men's minds, encouraging the gullible to fight for the causes of their mythological gods.
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A big well done to the US guys in Pakistan. However my mind is not at rest as they are islamist freaks and retribution is the order of the day for them.
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I do not believe that the USA have actually thrown his body to the sea. They will keep his body in a place as secure as Fort Knox to ensure his safe keeping. They must have thrown in the sea someone else who looks very alike, but would never throw his body away.
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A major achievement to rid the world of terrorism perhaps..and a major prospect of massive retaliation of islamic fundamentalists.
