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luar White House setelah mendengar berita kematian Sheikh Usamah bin Laden
Hafizahullah walaupun kesahihannya masih belum dipastikan.
Barack Obama - US president
Today, at my direction, the United States carried
out that operation... they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant
achievement to date against al-Qaeda.
Tonight, we give thanks to the counter intelligence
officials who have tirelessly worked, we give thanks to them men who carried
out this operation.
Finally, let me say to the families, we have not
forgotten your loss, today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our
country.
Tonight we are once again reminded that American
can do whatever we set our mind to ... we can do these things not because of
wealth and power but because of who we are.
Pakistan Foreign Office
The death of bin Laden is a "major setback to
terrorist organisations around the world".
"This operation was conducted by the US Forces
in accordance with declared US policy that Osama bin Laden will be eliminated
in a direct action by the U.S. Forces, wherever found in the world."
Hamid Karzai - Afghan president
The killing of bin Laden is very "important
news".
The Taliban must learn a lesson from this. The
Taliban should refrain from fighting.
George W. Bush - former US president
This momentous achievement marks a victory for
America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost
loved ones on September 11, 2001.
The fight against terror goes on, but tonight
America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice
will be done.
Michael Bloomberg - New York City mayor
The killing of Osama bin Laden does not lessen the
suffering that New Yorkers and Americans experienced at his hands, but it is a
critically important victory for our nation - and a tribute to the millions of
men and women in our armed forces and elsewhere who have fought so hard for our
nation.
New Yorkers have waited nearly 10 years for this
news. It is my hope that it will bring some closure and comfort to all those
who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001
Raymond Kelly - New York police commissioner
Killing of Osama bin Laden a "welcome
milestone" for the families of the victims of the September 11, 2001
attacks.
David Cameron - British prime minister
Osama bin Laden was responsible for the worst
terrorist atrocities the world has seen -- for 9/11 and for so many attacks,
which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British. It is a great success
that he has been found and will no longer be able to pursue his campaign of
global terror.
The news that Osama bin Laden is dead will bring
great relief to people across the world.
Benjamin Netanyahu - Israeli prime minister
This is a resounding triumph for justice, freedom
and the values shared by all democratic nations fighting shoulder to shoulder
in determination against terrorism.
The state of Israel joins together in the joy of
the American people after the liquidation of bin Laden.
Alain Juppe - France's Foreign Minster
Bin Laden's death is a "victory for all
democracies fighting the abominable scourge of terrorism".
P. Chidambaram - Indian home minister
We take note with grave concern that part of the
statement in which (US) President Obama said that the firefight in which Osama
bin Laden was killed took place in Abbottabad 'deep inside Pakistan'.
This fact underlines our concern that terrorists
belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan.
Benigno Aquino - Philippine president
The death of Osama bin Laden marks a signal defeat
for the forces of extremism and terrorism.
It represents the death of the efforts of one man
to stoke the fires of sectarian hatred and to promote terrorism on a scale
unprecedented in the history of mass murder.
Franco Frattini - Italian foreign minister
Bin Laden's death at the hands of US forces
"is a victory of good over evil, of justice over cruelty".
Robert Fisk - journalist
Osama bin Laden was the founder of Al Qaeda, but to
suggest that he was in command, sitting in some computer cave, is completely
rubbish.
He spent most of his time hiding, most of his time
running from the US authorities.
I never thought he would hang around long in
Afghanistan but in Pakistan he had a soft spot. He felt safer in Pakistan than
he did in Afghanistan, and I think that is correct.
You have to realise that Bin Laden is a very
popular mind, even with the royalty.
He was saying things about the West, which their
dictators wouldn't say, his condemnation of the West, and he had to say it from
a cave.
He is a figure who would be reflected upon.
Steve Clemmons – The New America Foundation
It's game changing news.
We got used to the fact that Osama bin Laden was
beyond our reach. He has slipped off the radar screen, he was a pop culture
figure with a fanatic bent.
The Muslim world are going to continue to have to
deal with those who are inspired by him but of course knocking off a symbol
globally is significant.
Imtiaz Gul – political analyst
It has come as a big surprise to most of the
Pakistanis, particularly the location. Many believed that he had been long
dead.
It is very close to the Pakistani military academy.
I’d presume that the Pakistani intelligence was
involved to the extent, previous had been captured with their assistance.
In most cases, the Americans wouldn’t tell the
Pakistani security institutions where they were headed so in this case they
(Pakistani intelligence) were probably on board but probably didn’t know where
they (the US) were going to.
Mark Kimmit - Military Analyst/US Army Brigadier
This is not the end of the movement, this is not
the end of the terrorism but this is the end of the chapter
Capturing or killing bin Laden has more iconic
value.
It will have symbolic value, because it has been a
number of years since Bin Laden has exercised day to day control over
operations. We still have an Al Qaeda threat out there and that will be there
for a number of years.
This organisation (Al Qaeda) is more than Bin
Laden, it may be symbolised by Bin Laden, but it definitely is more than Bin
Laden.
