Late Sunday night, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during an operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden reportedly died in a firefight, shot in the head, following which his body was recovered and was buried at sea*. Reactions in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere were swift and exuberant. Stay tuned: Further images will be added throughout the day, showing responses to the momentous news from around the world. [* This report originally stated the body remained in U.S. custody. A report from the Pentagon now says that the body was buried in the North Arabian Sea.]
Osama Bin Laden Killed: Worldwide Reactions
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Late on Sunday night, May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden had been killed in a military operation. Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden is pictured in this 1998 file photo at a meeting at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. #
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President Barack Obama walks through the Cross Hall to the Blue Room to deliver news to the nation that U.S. authorities have recovered the body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. #
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President Barack Obama speaks after addressing the nation on TV from the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2011, in Washington, District of Columbia, Obama had just announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed near Islamabad, Pakistan, almost a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and his body was in possession of the United States. #
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US Marines of Regiment Combat Team 1 (RCT 1) watch TV as President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden, at Camp Dwyer in Helmand Province, on May 2, 2011. US President Barack Obama said on May 1, 2011 that justice had been done after the September 11, 2001 attacks with the death of Osama bin Laden, but warned that Al-Qaeda will still try to attack the US. #
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Photographers take pictures of U.S. President Barack Obama after he announced the death of Osama bin Laden live on television from the East Room of the White House on May 1, 2011. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama announced on Sunday. #
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President Barack Obama, making a statement on the death of Osama bin Laden, is shown on TVs at an electronics retailer in Tokyo on Monday May 2, 2011. Obama said Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States. #
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President Barack Obama is seen on a television monitor in the press briefing room as he makes a televised statement on the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House on Sunday, May 1, 2011. #
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Fans check their cell phones during a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets on Sunday, May 1, 2011, in Philadelphia. News broke during the game that Osama bin Laden had been killed. #
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People cheer and wave U.S. flags outside the White House as President Barack Obama delivers remarks to the nation on the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. #
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Students gather at the fence on the north side of the White House, pose for photographs, chant "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" and sing the Star Spangled Banner while U.S. President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden during a late evening statement to the press in the East Room of the White House May 1, 2011 in Washington, DC. #
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Revelers stand on trees outside the gates of the White House after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that U.S. authorities have recovered the dead body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011. #
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n the early morning hours of May 2, 2011, David Huber and Nicole Lozare of Arlington, Virginia, pay their respects to victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, following President Barack Obama's announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden. #
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A large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, 2011 in New York. #
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A man shows an extra edition of a Japanese newspaper in Tokyo on Monday, May 2, 2011, reporting Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, was killed in an operation led by U.S. forces. Japanese headlines read: "Is bin Laden dead? His remains were taken custody, said President." #
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A large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 2, 2011 in New York. #
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Locals watch an Afghan television newscast about Osama bin Laden's death at a restaurant in Kabul on May 2, 2011. The al Qaeda leader was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Barack Obama announced, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks. #
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In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani soldiers walk past a compound surrounded in red fabric where locals reported a firefight took place overnight on May 2, 2011. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks. Obama said U.S. forces led a targeted operation that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad. #
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More than 2,000 Illinois State University students in Normal, Illinois, loft each other through the air as they celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden, Monday, May 2, 2010. #
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Dionne Layne, facing camera, hugs Mary Power as they react to the news of the death of Osama bin Laden on Monday, May 2, 2011, in New York. At left is the rising tower, 1 World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower. #
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In this still image taken from video footage from a mobile phone on May 2, 2011, the Abbottabad compound where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed is seen in flames. #
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On May 2, 2011, soldiers and residents stand over covered debris as it is moved out by military vehicles from the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound within which al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed. #
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Anti-government protestors watch a TV broadcast about the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from a tent near a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, May 2, 2011. #
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Douglas Sidialo, who lost his sight in Osama bin Laden's 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, prays at the memorial remembering the victims in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, May 2, 2011. #
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Indian sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik gives finishing touches to a sand sculpture to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden at the golden sea beach at Puri, Orissa, India, Monday, May 2, 2011. #
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Jim Schweizer, assistant to the director of Fort Snelling National Cemetery, straightens flowers at the grave of Thomas Burnett, Monday May 2, 2011 in Bloomington, Minnesota. Burnett died September 11, 2001 along with 39 other passengers and crew when Flight 93 was hijacked and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, while flying to San Francisco from Newark, New Jersey. #
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A memorial wreath decorated with the words "We Got Him" is displayed by a monument honoring the victims of terrorism at the Spring Hill VFW Post 10209 in Tampa, Florida, on Monday, May 2, 2011. #
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Madison Lefever, 14, left, and Nicole Ortega, 13, both from Pinon Mesa Middle School in Phelan, California, hug after hearing a letter read that was left on a bench at the Pentagon Memorial, Monday, May 2, 2011. #
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