Osama bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan: Obama

Osama bin Laden was killed Sunday morning by a team of Navy SEALs to a U.S. facility outside Islamabad, to end the hunt for the world's most wanted terrorist responsible for September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks killed 3,000 people. "Justice has been done," Obama said in a statement late Sunday night, announcing the murder.

He had called minutes before George W. predecessors Bush and Bill Clinton to give them the first news.

Bin Laden was killed with his son and three women, after a shootout with the U.S. team for 40 minutes, said an official of the administration, adding the team has made back body bin Laden, to be buried with full Islamic rites.

The operation was performed early in the morning with the seals will fly in four helicopters, one of which was dropped by the team after developing a mechanical failure. Nobody in the raid team was injured.

Celebrations erupted in the United States, and crowds gathered outside the White House - most students from the nearby George Washington University and tourists -. "USA, USA, USA" sing the American national anthem and chanting "This is the greatest moment in the history of the United States, told Congress Gary Ackerman of New York, as people converged at Ground Zero, clapping, dancing or just quietly enjoying the moment.

Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization he headed, were held responsible not only for 9/11but also for the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombing in 1998 and the USS Cole off Yemen in 2000 .

Pakistani authorities were not informed of the raid which was conducted by U.S. forces in the early hours of Sunday, the official said, adding only a very small group of people knew of the raid, even the United States.

"Last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was informed in advance as possible of bin Laden," Obama said in his speech. But the information was far from certain and more work to do.

Finally, last Friday, was asked permission to attack the facility, 65 miles north of Islamabad, in an exclusive district Abbottabad, which houses a large number of retired military officials.