Obama thanks CIA for helping get Bin Laden

Obama thanks CIA for helping get Bin Laden
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Summary US President has thanked CIA for helping track down and kill ex-Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

While addressing the members of the intelligence community gathered at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters the United States President, Barack Obama, said that the fight is not over because they only took out the single operational leader of Al Qaeda and walked off with his files -- the largest treasure trove ever seized from a terrorist leader.He warned the remaining members of Al Qaeda network to watch their backs.Obama said the work the CIA had done to track down bin Laden had made a critical difference to the success of the May 2 mission of the US Navy SEAL commandos to kill Osama. He said the agencys secret and generally thankless contribution had been recognized.

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