Killing Bin Laden

Obama says world safer without Bin Laden

US president to visit New York to honour 9/11 victims as Washington steps up security amid fears of retaliation attacks. 'Symbolic victory' In Afghanistan, Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said Afghan officials described Bin Laden's killing as a "symbolic victory", since he was no longer directly connected to the group's field operations. Mark Kimmit, a US military analyst, said Bin Laden's death "was not the end of terrorism, but an end of a chapter". Brother of anti-Taliban resistance leader killed in an al-Qaeda bombing 'relieved' at news of Bin Laden's death "Capturing or killing Bin Laden has more iconic value. It will have symbolic value, because it has been a number of years since Bin Laden has exercised day-to-day control over operations. We still have an al-Qaeda threat out there and that will be there for a number of year