10. Read the following article paying attention to the underlined words. TERRORIST LEADER OSAMA BIN LADEN DEAD (MAY 2ND, 2011) U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement on Sunday, May 1
st
, that Al Qaeda
leader Osama bin Laden has been killed
triggered celebrations across America. For the
U.S. army and its supporters, this was the day they were fighting for.
Bin Laden was found and killed in a
compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. U.S.
intelligence found the compound by tracking one of his personal
couriers . The name of the courier was
received years earlier through “questionable” methods used on terrorist suspects in CIA prisons.
After a short fight, U.S. military forces captured bin Laden’s body. The US media
reports that the body was later buried at sea to according to Islamic practice of a burial within
24 hours and to
prevent a burial site from becoming a
shrine .
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented that the recent protests in the Arab
world against
authoritarian governments are another sign of the defeat of al-Qaeda and its
ideology . US
allies are calling the news an achievement. Other leaders, such as Prime
Minister Ismail Haniya of Gaza, have called bin Laden a “Muslim and Arabic warrior” who
fought two superpowers in the name of
jihad .
US embassies are on now
on the lookout for
counterattacks attacks by al-Qaeda.
Bin Laden claimed responsibility for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000
people. He was
at large for nearly 10 years, despite a 25 million dollar reward for
information leading to his capture.
