The news spread quickly through Twitter, Facebook and other means before President Barack Obama made it to the White House podium to tell the nation that Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorism plot, had been killed in a firefight in an affluent suburb of Pakistan.
shortly after 11 p.m. to tell Americans – and the world – that nearly 10 years since al-Qaida flew two planes into the World Trade Center towers, killing more than 3,000 people, bin Laden was dead.
Thousands of people gathered outside the White House (NBC reported last night that the crowd was singing Queen's "We Are The Champions"), in New York at Ground Zero and even to celebrate the death of bin Laden.
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