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Images after Osama bin Laden’s death View images showing the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, as well as Americans’ reactions to the news.
May 1, 2011
President Obama listens during one in a series of meetings discussing the mission against Osama bin Laden, in the Situation Room of the White House.
Pete Souza
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The White House/Bloomberg
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May 1, 2011
In this image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to obscure the paper in front of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Obama and Vice President Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House.
Pete Souza
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AP/The White House
May 1, 2011
This video frame grab obtained from ABC News shows a gaping hole in the wall of the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed.
ABC
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Reuters
May 1, 2011
This video frame grab obtained from ABC News shows the bedroom in the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed.
ABC
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Reuters
May 1, 2011
This video frame grab obtained from ABC News is an interior shot of the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed.
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Reuters
May 1, 2011
President Obama reads his statement to photographers after making a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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AP
May 2, 2011
A military helicopter crashed near the hideout of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during an operation by U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad.
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AFP/Getty Images
May 1, 2011
A driver and passengers celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden in the streets of Lawrence, Kan.
Orlin Wagner
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AP
May 1, 2011
People gather in Times Square after the announcement from President Obama of Osama bin Laden's death.
Mario Tama
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Getty Images
May 2, 2011
A man who said he was dressed as Captain America cheers across the street from the White House in Washington, as people gathered to cheer the United States after it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
Jacquelyn Martin
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AP
May 1, 2011
People react outside the White House to news that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
Matt McClain
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For The Washington Post
May 1, 2011
People react to bin Laden's death outside the White House.
Matt McClain
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For The Washington Post
May 1, 2011
Crowds cheer outside the White House.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
May 1, 2011
After news that Osama bin Laden was killed, a man mourns a loved one at the Pentagon memorial in Arlington.
Linda Davidson
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The Washington Post
May 4, 2011
Residents gather outside the hideout of bin Laden. Pakistani officials said the world must share the blame for failing to unearth bin Laden as a furor swelled over how the slain al-Qaeda leader had managed to live undisturbed near Islamabad.
Aamir Qureshi
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AFP/Getty Images
May 4, 2011
Residents try to look past the gates into the compound where bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces.
Faisal Mahmood
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Reuters
May 3, 2011
A Pakistani youngster shows metal fragments collected from a wheat field outside the house where bin Laden lived in Abbottabad.
Anjum Naveed
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AP
May 2, 2011
Vienna Forse, 2, and Makaiya Skaggs, 4, of Frederick explore the gravestones in section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery. The girls were with their mothers visiting the site where Vienna's uncle, Sgt. David James Smith, is buried. They decided to visit the cemetery after learning about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Bonnie Jo Mount
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The Washington Post
May 3, 2011
The Patriot Flag, a 30-by-60-foot flag honoring those who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is carried up Ottawa Street in Lansing, Mich., to the Capitol, where it was to be displayed. The flag traveled around the country in remembrance of the attacks. Michigan was the first stop since the U.S. troops killed bin Laden.
Greg DeRuiter
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AP
May 2, 2011
At the temporary Flight 93 memorial site near Shanksville, Pa., Jeff Ray of Stoney Creek, Pa., remembers the crash.
Michael S. Williamson
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The Washington Post
May 2, 2011
At the temporary Flight 93 memorial site near Shanksville, Pa., Barbara Ray of Stoney Creek, Pa., looks out over the field where the plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001. She and her husband made the sign and invited visitors to sign it.
Michael S. Williamson
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The Washington Post
May 2, 2011
Family members, from left, sisters Danielle and Carie Lemack who lost their mother, Judy Larocque, and Christy Coombs, who lost her husband, Jeffrey, on ill-fated Flight 11 from Logan Airport on Sept. 11, 2001, grieve in Boston during a moment of silence at the Garden of Remembrance, a memorial dedicated to the 206 Massachusetts victims of the attacks. The event was held in the wake of news of the death of Osama bin Laden.
Elise Amendola
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AP
May 5, 2011
President Obama carries a wreath with New York Police Officer Stephanie Moses, left, New York firefighter Joseph Lapointe and Port Authority Police Officer John Adorno during a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero. Obama also visited a New York Fire Department firehouse and met with families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.
Mario Tama
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Getty Images
May 5, 2011
People view the World Trade Center site before a visit by President Obama.
Shannon Stapleton
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Reuters
May 6, 2011
President Obama addresses soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who recently returned from fighting abroad at Fort Campbell, Ky.
Katherine Frey
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The Washington Post
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