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Associated Press CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said that some of the intelligence that helped track down Osama bin Laden came from interrogation of detainees.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Deputy U.N. Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi (right) hugs Libya's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham after a meeting of the Security Council at United Nations headquarters in February. Tension was high at the time after fighting broke out between pro- and anti-Gadhafi forces.

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An Afghan reads about the death of Osama bin Laden in a newspaper published in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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A photo taken by a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday, May 2, 2011, shows the wreckage of a U.S. helicopter next to the wall of the compound where, according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)

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A Pakistani soldier stands guard on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, near the house where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed early Sunday by U.S. forces. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied suggestions his country's security forces may have sheltered bin Laden and said their cooperation with the United States helped pinpoint the whereabouts of the world's most wanted man. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Middle school teacher Gary Weddle, 50, holds his cut beard while shaving the remaining stubble on Sunday evening after learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. On 9/11, he vowed to not shave until the al Qaeda leader was caught or killed. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Security at transportation hubs such as New York's Grand Central Station has been heightened after President Obama on Sunday announced the killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden. "A flawed ideology did not die with one man," said Tom Ridge, the nation's first Homeland Security secretary.

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Pakistan army soldiers and a police officer patrol past the house (background) where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-manhunt after the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. soil. (Associated Press)

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On Sept. 11, 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn and later collapse after hijacked planes deliberately crashed into them in New York City. A multimillion-dollar reward was offered for now-dead terrorist Osama bin Laden after the attacks.

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This October 2000 image, provided by the U.S. Navy, shows damage sustained by the USS Cole after a terrorist bomb exploded during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, Yemen. Osama bin Laden was blamed for the attack.

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Among the offerings from patriotic entrepreneurs at Cafe Press: A $25 T-shirt celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden. (Cafe Press)

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Danny Montoya of Warrenton, Va., holds a sign up in Lafayette Park outside the White House on May 2, 2011, the morning after the country learned that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. Navy Seals. Montoya says that our first initiative following the Sept. 11 attacks was to get Osama Bin Laden, and he feels that now that he's dead, some of the U.S. troops who have been assigned to more remote areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan should be able to come home. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh insists Hamas won't give up control of its security forces or of Gaza after a unity pact with the Palestinian Authority, set to be signed Wednesday, takes effect. (Associated Press)

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Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh insists Hamas won't give up control of its security forces or of Gaza after a unity pact with the Palestinian Authority, set to be signed Wednesday, takes effect. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press Afghan President Hamid Karzai, addressing a gathering at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday lauded Osama bin Laden's death as a serious blow to terrorism.

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**FILE** In this photo from Oct. 7, 2011, Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in this television image broadcast. (Associated Press)

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CHARLOTTE OBSERVER A crowd in Concord, N.C., gathers to honor Sgt. 1st Class Donald Shue. Sgt. Shue disappeared in November 1969 while fighting in the Vietnam War, but his remains were only recently repatriated.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama finishes introducing a reshuffled national security team on Thursday. From left are: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan-designate Ryan C. Crocker; top commander-designate for U.S. forces in Afghanistan Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Allen; CIA Director-nominee Gen. David H. Petraeus; Defense Secretary-nominee Leon E. Panetta; outgoing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates; the president; Vice President Joseph R. Biden; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; and National Security Adviser Thomas E. Donilon.