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The legacy of Osama bin Laden (16 images)

With the announcement of a sudden presidential press conference, the news quickly broke on Sunday that Osama bin Laden, notorious mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, among others, had been killed. Details are still scarce, but what is known is that the most wanted man in the world is now dead.



In this image made from video broadcast by the Qatar-based television station Al-Jazeera on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2001, Osama Bin Laden speaks from an undisclosed location at an undisclosed time. His statements indicated he was speaking in the first half of December. Writing at top right reads "Exclusive to Al-Jazeera." .mk/aa/UPI via Al-Jazeera
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A young Chinese boy boxes with his mom using hand puppets of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as holiday crowds enjoy the first day of the Chinese New Year at one of Beijing's main cultural parks, full of both toy and food vendors, on February 07, 2008. China welcomed in the Year of the Rat Thursday with a bonanza of fireworks and festivals, but the celebrations for many were subdued due to ferocious cold weather that kept them from their families. (UPI Photo/Stephen Shaver)
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Judge Leonard Sand presiding over the U.S. Embassy bombing trial at Manhattan Federal Court in New York delivered October 18, 2001 Life in Prison sentences to defendants (left to right) Wadih El Hage, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, Rashed Daoud Al Owhali and Mohammed Sadeek Odeh for their terrorist actions in Africa for Osamu Bin Laden whose image is shown on a courts computer screen. ep/ Shirley Shepard-Ezio Petersen UPI
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Nancy James, of Reno, Nevada, leaves the Street Vibrations Celebration on her Harley Davidson bike with a life-size dummy meant to represent Osama bin Laden she made and attatched to her bike with a noose, on September 23, 2001. mk/ct/Candice Towell UPI
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