Bin Laden's demise: US rejoices after a decade

After almost a decade of anger and fear, America rejoice Monday at the termination of Osama bin Laden, the terror brain at the rear the horrific 9/11 attacks. Navy SEALs who killed the world's most-wanted terrorist held a trove of al-Qaida documents to pore over, and President Barack Obama laid plans to visit New York's ground zero.

Bin Laden, killed in a passionate firefight in a daring raid at his prepared hideout in Pakistan, was hunted down based on in sequence first gleaned years ago from prisoner at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclose.

His body was speedily taken away for burial at sea, except not before a DNA match was done to prove his identity. A U.S. official said there also was photos presentation bin Laden with the fatal wound above his left eye, a firing that tore away part of his skull. The photos were not without delay released.

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After Uncertainty, a Moment of Triumph in the Situation Room: 'We've IDed Geronimo'

The people who collected Sunday in the state of affairs Room are acquainted with all about high-pressure situations. Except this was something else. For 40 minutes, the President and his senior aides could do not anything but watch the video screens and listen to the operation and resulting firefight on the other side of the world. At Barack Obama's orders, special operations teams were invading the airspace of an overseas country, targeting a compound with unfamiliar occupants, and hoping to get out untouched.

The objective was America's No. 1 enemy, Osama bin Laden. Other than no one knew for sure if he was even there.The President sat stone-faced from side to side much of the events. Quite a few of his aides, however, were pacing. For long periods of time, nobody said a thing, as all and sundry waited for the next update.

In the modern age, Presidents can knowledge their own military actions like a video game, except for that they have no manage over the events. They cannot, and would not, intervene to contact the commanders running the process. So when word came that a helicopter had been ashore, a sign that the plan was already off course, the tension greater than before.

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Obama visits his hometown to restart money chase

President Barack Obama restarted his alarming fundraising operation Thursday with a confront to supporters that the 2012 presidential crusade will be concerning how to fix the country's money problems with no doing harm to "the America we think in."

"We are going to be gifted to present a very clear option to the American people," the president told Chicago hometown supporters in his first fundraisers since formally proclaiming his re-election last week. "We can get our economic house in order, but we can do it in a way that is dependable with our values and who we are as a people. Or we can make a decision to shrink our vision of what America is. And I don't consider in shrinking America."

Bracing for a fight next to re-energized Republicans determined to deny him a second term, the president required Thursday to reanimate supporters who sweep him into the White House in 2008 on promises of change — counting liberals let down at his compromises with the GOP.

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Obama to CEOs: Ask what you can do for America

Echoing John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama poked big business leaders Monday to "ask yourselves what you can do for America," not presently for company bottom lines, even as he required to soft his uncomfortable relations with the nation's public executives.

Talking to the U.S. board room of Commerce, the president advised the business group of people to help go faster the slow economic revival by growing hiring and unleash some of the $2 trillion piling up on their equilibrium sheets.

"I want to give confidence you to obtain in the pastime," Obama said.

He itemized new efforts by his management to get better the nation's business communications, use up more to hold up entrepreneurs and foster greater modernism. He vowed to address "a heavy business tax code," and go after "pointless and outdated system."

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WH, lawmakers clear way for tax cut bill passage

The White House and key lawmakers clean the way Thursday night for swift Senate action to avert a Jan. 1 spike in income taxes for almost all Americans, agreeing to extend breaks for ethanol and other forms of option energy as part of the deal.

Tax provisions aimed at increasing manufacture of hybrid automobiles, biodiesel fuel, energy-efficient homes, coal and energy-efficient household appliances would be extended from side to side the end of 2011 beneath the bill in an America.

Deliberate on the lingering measure began almost without delay. While there is no precise timetable for passage, a test vote was set for Monday afternoon that appears likely to make obvious overwhelmingly support for the legislation, which supporters say would help accelerate a slothful recovery from depression.

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Obama asks country to help make tomorrow better

Saying America has a the past of doing what it takes to make a improved tomorrow, President Barack Obama is calling on a country mountaineering out of its worst financial slump in decades to summon that spirit again this holiday period.

"This is not the hardest blessing America has ever faced. But as long as many members of our American family are ache, we've got to look out for one another," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, at large for Thanksgiving.

"As long as many of our sons and daughters and husbands and wives are at war, we've got to carry their mission and honor their examine," Obama added. "And as long as many of our friends and neighbors are looking for work, we've got to do all we can to go faster this revival and keep our economy moving onward."

Obama backs India bid for UN Security Council seat

President Barack Obama on Monday overturned India for a enduring seat on the U.N. Security Council, a dramatic political sign to his hosts at the end of his first call to this booming nation.

Obama made the statement in a speech to India's assembly on the third and final day of his stay. In doing so, he satisfied what was perhaps India's sweetheart wish for Obama's trip here. India has required permanent Security Council association for years.

"The just and sustainable international order that America seeks include a United Nations that is efficient, effective, credible and rightful," Obama said. "That is why I can say today — in the years ahead, I look frontward to a reformed U.N. Security Council that includes India as a permanent associate."

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