News Osama Bin Laden is dead: Crowds react Published on May 2, 2011 Share Tweet Share Email Comments Print President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday. ASSOCIATED PRESS Army service members watch on television President Barack Obama talk about the death of Osama bin Laden inside the USO at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. ASSOCIATED PRESS United States military troops watch breaking news on the announcement by President Barack Obama that Osama bin Laden had been killed, at the USO at Kandahar Airfield, southern Afghanistan. ASSOCIATED PRESS Allyson Childress of Falls Church, Va., joins the crowds celebrating on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, early Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS Crowds celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington ASSOCIATED PRESS Secret Service Police watch the crowd celebrating outside the White House in Washington early Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS Crowds of residents, tourists, and college students celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington. ASSOCIATED PRESS Dustin Fredrickson, of New York, center, holds up an American flag as he stands on a fire truck amongst those gathered in New York's Times Square reacting to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death early Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS A U.S. Park Police officer is handed a flag as crowds celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington. ASSOCIATED PRESS People cheer and wave flags on the "Freedom Bridge" just outside Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash.. ASSOCIATED PRESS A large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS Waving American flags as they sit atop a phone booth, Simi Lampert, left, and Ryan Chung, both of New York, gather with others by ground zero in New York as they react to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death early Monday morning. ASSOCIATED PRESS Perched on another's shoulders, Ryan Burtchell, of the Brooklyn borough of New York, center, waves an American flag over the crowd as they respond to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death. ASSOCIATED PRESS A small group sits with candles and a sign as they react to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death on Vesey Street, near ground zero. ASSOCIATED PRESS A large, jubilant crowd, including bagpipers, reacts to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS Arab Americans celebrate the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden in Dearborn, Mich., Monday morning. ASSOCIATED PRESS Toufeq Ahmed waves a flag as he celebrates the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden in Dearborn, Mich. ASSOCIATED PRESS Danial Hanes, of Spanaway, Wash., holds a copy of the Wall Street Journal with a photo of Osama Bin Laden on it as he waves a flag on the "Freedom Bridge" just outside Joint Base Lewis-McChord, around midnight Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS FDNY firefighter Scott Hickey, left, and a fellow firefighter who did not give his name, sit in a fire truck parked in New York's Times Square as a crowd gathers in reaction to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death Monday morning. ASSOCIATED PRESS University of Texas at Austin students celebrate the news of Osama Bin Laden's death at Cain & Abels bar late Sunday night. ASSOCIATED PRESS Michael Reyes, second from right, who resembles President Barack Obama, poses for photos with New York City police officers at the World Trade Center Monday in New York. They were reacting to news of the death of Osama bin Laden. ASSOCIATED PRESS Saudi men watch a TV broadcasting a report about Osama bin Laden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS A man shows an extra edition of a Japanese newspaper in Tokyo Monday reporting Osama bin Laden has been killed. ASSOCIATED PRESS Kenyans watch U.S. President Barrack Obama,on television in Nairobi, Kenya, announcing the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. ASSOCIATED PRESS People watch a TV broadcast on the death of Osama bin Laden in Baghdad, Iraq. ASSOCIATED PRESS Anti-government protestors watch a TV broadcasting President Barack Obama statement on the death of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in a tent at the site of a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa,Yemen, Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS A man shows a newspaper reporting the death of Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Karachi, Pakistan Monday. ASSOCIATED PRESS With the new One World Trade Center building in the background, second left, a large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama Bin Laden's death. ASSOCIATED PRESS Dionne Layne, facing camera, hugs Mary Power as they react to the news of the death of Osama bin Laden, Monday in New York. At left is the under construction 1 World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower. ASSOCIATED PRESS Related Items BIN LADEN Recommended for you Click to comment