US president commends assault team
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May 8, 2011, Sunday
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US President Barack Obama embraced the US commandos he sent after terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, saluting them Friday on behalf of America and people all over the world. "Job well done," he declared.
The president spoke to a hangar full of cheering soldiers in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, after meeting privately with the full assault team - Army helicopter pilots and Navy SEAL commandos - who executed the dangerous raid on bin Laden's compound and killed the al-Qaida leader in Pakistan early Monday.
"Thanks to the incredible skill and courage of countless individuals - intelligence, military over many years - the terrorist leader that struck our nation 9/11 will never threaten America again," Obama said, speaking at an Army post whose troops have sustained heavy losses in a war in Afghanistan.
Capping an extraordinary week for the military, the country and himself, he called the bin Laden raid one of the most successful intelligence and military operations in America's history.
Obama warned in his address to the troops that the fight against terrorists still rages, but said: "we are ultimately going to defeat al-Qaida."
Fresh warnings emerged, though, underscoring Obama's caution that the fight against terrorists still rages.
The Afghan Taliban have issued a statement acknowledging the death of bin Laden after al-Qaida confirmed its leader had been killed by US forces.
Soldiers at Fort Campbell were careful not to celebrate bin Laden's death, voicing instead a sense of professional pride for the work of the commandos.
"We're not done," said Major Luis Ortiz, who was at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan when Obama visited the troops there last December. "We cut off the head of the snake, but the snake is still wiggling around."
The president spoke to a hangar full of cheering soldiers in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, after meeting privately with the full assault team - Army helicopter pilots and Navy SEAL commandos - who executed the dangerous raid on bin Laden's compound and killed the al-Qaida leader in Pakistan early Monday.
"Thanks to the incredible skill and courage of countless individuals - intelligence, military over many years - the terrorist leader that struck our nation 9/11 will never threaten America again," Obama said, speaking at an Army post whose troops have sustained heavy losses in a war in Afghanistan.
Capping an extraordinary week for the military, the country and himself, he called the bin Laden raid one of the most successful intelligence and military operations in America's history.
Obama warned in his address to the troops that the fight against terrorists still rages, but said: "we are ultimately going to defeat al-Qaida."
Fresh warnings emerged, though, underscoring Obama's caution that the fight against terrorists still rages.
The Afghan Taliban have issued a statement acknowledging the death of bin Laden after al-Qaida confirmed its leader had been killed by US forces.
Soldiers at Fort Campbell were careful not to celebrate bin Laden's death, voicing instead a sense of professional pride for the work of the commandos.
"We're not done," said Major Luis Ortiz, who was at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan when Obama visited the troops there last December. "We cut off the head of the snake, but the snake is still wiggling around."
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