{"id":61971,"date":"2011-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-alumnus-king-breaks-news-of-death-of-bin-laden\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T00:00:00","slug":"uri-alumnus-king-breaks-news-of-death-of-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/uri-alumnus-king-breaks-news-of-death-of-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus King breaks news of death of bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus John King broke the news of Osama bin Laden\u2019s death last night for CNN at 10:45 p.m., nearly an hour before President Obama went live on television around the world with the official announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201c<i>CNN<\/i> is told by several sources now that the President of the United States will announce in just moments that the United States has the body of Osama bin Laden. That Osama bin Laden has been killed,\u201d King told an international audience. \u201cThe United States is convinced that it has the body of Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe mastermind of 9\/11 and the architect of al Qaeda. We don\u2019t know the details; we don\u2019t know how this came about, but we are told now by several sources \u2013 administration sources and Congressional sources \u2013 that the administration is now telling senior members of Congress and telling others it believes, it is convinced, it now has the body of Osama bin Laden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWidely recognized for orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States that killed more than 3,000 people, bin Laden founded the jihadist organization al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBefore President Obama spoke, King reported that it was U.S. forces that killed bin Laden in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m told it was a United States asset that killed Osama bin Laden based on actionable U.S. intelligence,\u201d said King, \u201885.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAt 11:35 p.m., President Obama spoke from the East Room of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cTonight, I can report to the American people and to the world, the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda,\u201d Obama said. \u201cThe terrorist who was responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 alumnus John King broke the news of Osama bin Laden\u2019s death last night for CNN at 10:45 p.m., nearly an hour before President Obama went live on television around the world with the official announcement. &#13; \u201cCNN is told by several sources now that the President of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}