Osama bin Laden is dead (42 photos)

On Saturday night, US President Barack Obama said al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed during an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden was reportedly killed in the shootout, shot in the head. After his discovery, his body was buried at sea. The response from Washington and the world was immediate and enthusiastic. Osama bin Laden was 54 years old.

1. Osama bin Laden in a 1998 photo taken during a meeting in Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

2. US President Barack Obama goes to the Blue Room to announce the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

3. The US President announces the death of Osama bin Laden, which occurred near Islamabad, almost 10 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

4. Marines watch Barack Obama speak on television at Camp Dwyer in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Barack Obama said that justice had been done, but al-Qaeda would still try to carry out terrorist attacks in the United States again. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)

5. Photographers attend the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden during a live broadcast from the White House. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

6. Broadcast of Barack Obama's speech at an electronics store in Tokyo. Obama said that Osama bin Laden, the main US terrorist responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, was killed during an operation by the US military. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

7. Barack Obama in the press conference room announces the death of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

8. Barack Obama after announcing the death of Osama bin Laden in the East Room of the White House on May 1. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

9. Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera, File)

10. Fans at the Philadelphia Phillies-New York Mets game, during which the death of Osama bin Laden was announced. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

11. People rejoice at the death of the main terrorist Osama bin Laden at the White House on May 1. (Reuters/Jim Young)

12. Students at the north entrance to the White House chant “USA! USA!" and singing the anthem after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

13. After the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden at the gates of the White House. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

14. A crowd outside the White House celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

15. At the White House in Washington on May 1. (Reuters/Jim Young)

16. New York firefighters in Times Square shortly after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

17. Crowd in Times Square. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

18. On the morning of May 2, David Huber and Nicole Lozare from Arlington, Virginia, at the Pentagon memorial in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

19. Photo of a ticker in Times Square announcing the death of the al-Qaeda leader. (Reuters/Chip East)

20. Arab Americans rejoice after learning of the death of Osama bin Laden in Dearborn, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

21. A joyful crowd after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden on the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, near Ground Zero. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

22. A Japanese man demonstrates a special edition of a newspaper with an article about the death of the al-Qaeda leader in Tokyo. Japanese newspaper headlines read: “Is Bin Laden Dead? DNA analysis confirms this, says the US President.” (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

23. A crowd rejoicing at the news in New York on May 2. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

24. Afghans watch the news about the death of bin Laden in a Kabul restaurant. The al-Qaeda leader was killed during a US military operation in Pakistan. The nearly 10-year hunt for the person responsible for the September 11 terrorist attack has ended. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)

25. Pat White at the Texas Capitol in Austin on May 1. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Corey Leamon)

26. Pakistani soldiers stand against a backdrop of red cloth around the site of a reported firefight in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)

27. Shadows of people gathered to celebrate the death of bin Laden in New York on May 2. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

28. More than two thousand students at Illinois State University at Normal celebrate after learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/The Pantagraph/David Proeber)

29. A young American at a wreath and candles in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack in New York. (Reuters/Finbarr O'Reilly)

30. Dionne Lane (facing camera) and Mary Power after news of bin Laden's death on May 2 in New York. To the left rises the 1 World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

31. This still from a cell phone video shows the burning area of ​​the building in Abbottabad where the al-Qaeda leader was killed. (Reuters/Stringer)

32. Room in the mansion where Osama bin Laden was killed, May 2. (Reuters/ABC News)

33. Soldiers and residents of Abbottabad remove debris after the shootout that killed Osama bin Laden. (Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)

34. Men watch a program about Osama bin Laden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

35. People read newspapers with headlines "Osama bin Laden killed" in Hyderabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)

36. Anti-government protesters watch news of the killing of an al-Qaeda leader in a tent near the site of demonstrations about the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. (AP Photo/Muhammad Muheisen)

37. Burning photographs of Osama bin Laden in the Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters/Stringer)

38. Douglas Sidialo, who was blinded by Osama bin Laden's 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, prays at a memorial for the victims of that attack in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 2. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

39. Part of a crashed helicopter near the site where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad. (Reuters/Stringer)

40. Indian artist and sculptor Sudarshan Pattnaik made a sand sculpture in honor of the killing of Osama bin Laden on the beach of Puri, Orissa, India. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Route)

41. Supporters of the Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam rally against the killing of Osama bin Laden in Quetta, Pakistan, May 2. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

42. Assistant Director of Fort Snelling National Cemetery Jim Schweitzer arranges flowers at the grave of Thomas Burnett in Bloomington, Minnesota. Burnett died on September 11, 2001. He was one of 39 passengers aboard Flight 93, which was hijacked by terrorists and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Richard Sennott)