Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a US-led operation in Pakistan, President Barack Obama has announced. Osama Bin Laden has been on the run since fleeing Afghanistan in 2001
"I can report to the American people and to the world, that the US has conducted an operation that killed Osama Bin Laden," he said at a hastily-organised news conference at the White House.
The US president said he was briefed about a possible lead to the whereabouts of the the world's most wanted and mastermind of the September 11 attacks in August and last week organised an operation "to bring Bin Laden to justice".
"A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties," President Obama said.
The body of Bin Laden - who fled the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 - was recoved by US officials from the compound in Abbatobad, northwest of Pakistan, where he had been hiding.
President Obama said: "After a firefight they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body."
Sky News' chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay said: "I am told that this happened in an attack on a house at 1.30 in the morning Pakistan time. The house has been cordoned off."
President Obama spoke to former president George W Bush and former President Bill Clinton before announcing Bin Laden's death. Former US President George W Bush called the killing of Bin Laden a "momentous achievement".
"The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done," he said in a statement.More Newz BOFYA HAPA
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