Osama bin Laden Dead, Chinese Netizen Reactions *From NetEase:* Obama says American military have shot Bin Laden dead Summary: United States President Obama delivered a nationally televised speech on May 1st local time, ... the Saudi terror mastermind 's life was snuffed when a CIA-led team raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. One Twitter user, Sohaib Athar, who tweets as @ReallyVirtual, reportedly tweeted the raid, and his reactions so far. Here's his timeline. read »
-Osama Bin Laden’s New York Times Obituary: “The Most Wanted Face of Terrorism”
The first thing I notice is that when it was posted just hours after President Obama’s announcement, it was 7 webpages long. And clearly this was being written for years….because there was even a footnote: “Michael T. Kaufman, a principal writer of this article, died in 2010. Tim Weiner contributed reporting.”
-The Bin Laden’s divided family members (via the Sydney Morning Herald):
-Osama’s upbringing from wealthy childhood to cave-dwelling terrorist (via LA Times): “In 1967, when Osama was about 10, his father was killed in a plane crash. His share of the inheritance reportedly was about $300 million.“