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May 5, 2011 Volume 1 • Issue 24 Send your news to gladstonenews@npgco.com
Terrorist’s death spurs patriotic sentiment Locals respond to U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden News of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s death has dominated media reports since late Sunday night, May 1, when President Barack Obama broke the news in a televised address. U.S. Navy Seals entered a compound in Pakistan by helicopter and shot bin Laden in the head, killing him. Bin Laden was the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States and other acts of terrorOsama ism in other counbin Laden tries spanning more than a decade. He had been in hiding since fall 2001. After almost a decade of waiting for his capture, many local residents have said bin Laden’s death brings a sense of closure and justice for the events of Sept. 11. Some of their reactions to bin Lad-
en’s killing appear below.
try, Boydston said. After a decade of war, those pent-up feelings had built Sheriff: Case closed up a lot of pressure. Clay County’s top cop considers “This has been 10 years, and I had Osama bin Laden’s death a good a sinking feeling that this was not collar. going to happen,” Boydston said. Sheriff Bob Boydston has seen the “Americans finally let their hair law enforcement profession revolu- down.” tionized as a result of the Sept. 11 In the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. attacks, law enforcement agencies But Boydston, a Vietnam War from the FBI to the Clay Counveteran, had more than a profes- ty Sheriff’s Office have been oversional interest when news spread hauled, updated and linked together that bin Laden had been killed in in an anti-terrorist network. Homefirefight with elite U.S. forces. It was, land security has become one the Boydston said, a job well done. most important facets of the work “I was stunned, like I think every- done by Boydston’s staff. body was,” he said. “But after that, I “Since Sept. 11, this country has felt pride and gratitude that our ser- undergone a complete metamorphovice members had brought this man sis,” Boydston said. “We get terrorist to justice.” reports from two or three different MATT FRYE/Gladstone Dispatch The boisterous crowds that gath- agencies, and it all kind of adds ered near the White House when together even though we’re just one “DONT TREAD ON ME” is the message of a flag hanging from a third-floor window of Eaton Hall at William Jewell College in President Obama announced bin small piece of the puzzle.” Liberty on Monday, May 2, following the news of Osama Bin Laden’s end were symbolic of a larger DEATH/Page A13 Laden’s death. release of emotions across the coun-
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