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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan and his body was recovered, President Barack Obama announced Sunday.
总统奥巴马称，基地组织领导人本拉登周日在巴基斯坦境内一次与美国军队的交火中已被击毙，其尸体也已经被找到。
"Justice has been done," Obama said in a dramatic, late-night White House speech announcing the death of the elusive mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the New York and Washington.
“正义终于得到了伸张。”奥巴马深夜在白宫宣布这名2001911袭击纽约与华盛顿的策划者死讯的讲话中说道。
Obama said U.S. forces led the operation that killed bin Laden. No Americans were killed in the operation and they took care to avoid civilian casualties, he said.
奥巴马称美国军队领导了这次击毙本拉登的行动。他说，没有美国士兵在此次行动中丧生，并且他们也十分注意避免了平民伤亡。
"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.
“美国实施了击毙基地头目与恐怖分子本拉登的行动。此人身上背负了成千上万条人命，包括妇女与儿童。”奥巴马说。
It is a major accomplishment for Obama and his national security team, after many Americans had given up hope of ever finding bin Laden.
这是许多美国人已经放弃了找到本拉登的希望之后，奥巴马与其国安团队的一个重要成就。
A crowd gathered outside the White House to celebrate, chanting, "USA, USA."
Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring bin Laden to justice "dead or alive" for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people, but never did before leaving office in early 2009.
U.S. officials said that after searching in vain for the al Qaeda leader since he disappeared in Afghanistan in late 2001, the Saudi-born extremist was killed in the Pakistani town of Abbotabad and his body recovered.
Having the body may help convince any doubters that bin Laden is really dead.
He had been the subject of a search since he eluded U.S. soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in 2001.
The trail quickly went cold after he disappeared and many intelligence officials believed he had been hiding in Pakistan.
While in hiding, bin Laden had taunted the West and advocated his militant Islamist views in videotapes spirited from his hideaway.
Besides September 11, Washington has also linked bin Laden to a string of attacks -- including the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 bombing of the warship USS Cole in Yemen.
(Writing by Steve Holland; editing by David Storey)
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