Osama bin Laden Dead

Osama bin Laden has been killed according to President Barack Obama.

CNN is reported earlier this evening that bin Laden's body has been recovered. President Obama confirmed in a live address to the nation late Sunday evening that bin Laden was killed in a human (not drone) operation. He praised the miltary and civilian intelligence officers who helped make this happen and made it clear that, while bin Laden was in Pakistan, that country's officials cooperated in the effort to complete the mission to locate bin Laden.

The President said no Americans were harmed in the mission to capture bin Laden and the ensuring firefight. He said no womean or children were hurt in the attack on the compound. He also said the United States is not, and never has been, at war with Islam, but rather with bin Laden, a mastermind of the Sept. 11 attack on this country and a mass murderer.

He said justice had been done.

"Americans understand the costs of war. Yet we will never tolerate our security being threatened," he said in a live speech broadcast across the United States late Sunday evening.

Obama said bin Laden's death is the "most signficant achievement to date" in the fight against terrorism.

He concluded his speech with words to those who lost loved ones during Sept. 11.

"We have never forgotten your loss," he said, adding that the country remains committed to making the world a safer place, "not because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."