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LOCAL REACTION AND MORE INSIDE: ● A roundup of how area folks reacted to the terrorist leader Osama bin
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INSIDE University honors scholar athletes Monday night, at the 2011 Jayhawk Senior & Scholar Athlete Banquet, Kansas University seniors Tyrel Reed and Karina Garlington shared the stage to receive the Robert Frederick Senior Scholar Athletes of the Year awards, the most prestigious honor of the night. Page 1B KANSAS UNIVERSITY
Students build wind turbine from scrap
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President Obama in the Situation Room of the White House during a briefing on Osama bin Laden.
Laden’s death. Those who share their thoughts with us include an Iraq war widow, soldiers and their family members, and someone who was outside the twin towers on 9/11 and witnessed the tragedy firsthand. Page 6A ● Local terrorism experts say bin Laden’s death won’t stop terrorist attacks. Page 7A ● What local mental health experts are saying about how we are reacting to bin Laden’s death. Page 7A ● Mission provides teachable moment for junior high civics class. Page 7A ● Residents show off their patriotism in some American flag photos. Page 7A
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U.S. OFFICIALS said Monday that Osama bin Laden’s body was put aboard the USS Carl Vinson, above, then placed into the North Arabian Sea for burial.
Relief, tension follow bin Laden’s demise
Four KU mechanical engineering students sought out a senior-year design project that had never been done at KU, incorporated alternative energy and helped other people. What they came up with was constructing a wind turbine made of wood, trash barrels, car parts and other items that can easily be scavenged in Third World countries. Page 2A
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Two attempts by several House Republicans on Monday to make deeper cuts to the state budget were rejected by a group of Democrats and other Republicans. Page 3A
AN ARTIST’S RENDERING provided by the CIA shows the Abbottabad compound in Pakistan where American forces in Pakistan killed Osama bin Laden.
Terror mastermind was shot in head; DNA confirms ID
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We talk a lot about leadership, and these are all people who have led by experience. They’re hard workers. They’re involved in the community. We have expectations that that continues.”
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— Lawrence Police Chief Tarik Khatib, on the four department members who were promoted to patrol shift posts Monday. Page 3A
COMING WEDNESDAY Meet one of the people who open the Lawrence train depot in the middle of the night to greet rail travelers.
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PAKISTAN ARMY SOLDIERS and a police officer patrol past the house, background, where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday. Bin Laden was slain in his hideout during a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade.
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SUPPORTERS of Osama bin Laden rally to condemn his killing in Quetta, Pakistan, on Monday.
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Fabled SEAL Team Six ends hunt for bin Laden By Kimberly Dozier Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death in a rippedfrom-a-spy-thriller helicopter raid and firefight gives a storied unit of U.S. special operations forces bragging rights for what has become the most famous covert operation since the Sept. 11 attacks launched on bin Laden’s orders. The unit, called Navy SEAL Team Six, probably won’t claim the credit publicly, however. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say units from SEAL Team Six dropped into bin Laden’s high-walled compound in Pakistan early Monday morning, sliding down ropes in the pre-dawn dark. The military won’t confirm which unit carried out the attack. But the head of the Navy SEALs, Rear Adm. Edward
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They train around the clock. They know that failure will not be an option. Either they succeed or they don’t come home.” — Former Navy SEAL Craig Sawyer Winters, sent an email congratulating his forces and warning them to keep their mouths shut. “Be extremely careful about operational security,” he added. “The fight is not over.” Made up of only a few hundred forces based in Dam Neck, Va., the elite SEAL unit officially known as Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or “DEVGRU,” is part of a special operations brotherhood that calls itself Please see SEALS, page 4A
After nearly a decade of anger and fear, America rejoiced Monday at the demise of Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind behind the horrific 9/11 attacks. Navy SEALs who killed the world’s most-wanted terrorist seized a trove of al-Qaida documents to pore over, and President Barack Obama laid plans to visit New York’s ground zero. Bin Laden, killed in an intense firefight in a daring raid at his fortified hideout in
Pakistan, was hunted down based on information f irst gleaned years ago from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed. His body was quickly taken away for burial at sea, but not before a DNA match was done to prove his identity. A U.S. official said there also were photos showing bin Laden with the fatal wound above his left eye, a gunshot that tore away part of his skull. The photos were not immediately released. Please see FIREFIGHT, page 4A
Terror threat lives on, despite leader’s death Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden’s death may temporarily decapitate al-Qaida, but the threat of terror attacks remains, and it could spike in coming days from individuals or small extremist groups inspired to take revenge for killing, terror experts said Monday. Would-be successors to the terror leader pose a threat as they jostle for power and attention. And other jihadists inspired by the extremAyman alist messages may decide Zawahiri is to act on their own — a regarded as the threat that law enforceNo. 2 man in al- ment off icials say is Qaida, after bin much harder to detect and prevent. Laden. “People who are angry at us will be more so,” said Matthew Levitt, a counterterrorism and intelligence expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. “They had attacks in the works last week, last month,
While the terror threat to the U.S. erupting from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been rooted in alQaida, it has metastasized in recent years to spawn a broad range of affiliated groups operating out of Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Pakistan border region. today — and those things can still happen.” While the terror threat to the U.S. erupting from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been rooted in al-Qaida, it has metastasized in recent years to spawn a broad range of affiliated groups operating out of Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Pakistan border region. And with the Internet as their tool, terror leaders have worked to inspire individuals around the globe to take up the fight and launch their own attacks on Main Street USA. Bin Laden’s death, at Please see TERROR, page 4A