President Barack Obama addressed the nation at approximately 11:35 p.m. Sunday and announced that bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacked, was killed in Pakistan.
"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world, that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children," Obama said, speaking from the East Room of the White House.
