I first heard about Bin Ladins death on the ride to school on the radio and I didn't know whether to believe it or not. It wasn't from a very good source so I decided to put it off and see what others said during school. At school many people were talking about his death and were happy that he was dead and i found myself being happy about it too. It was weird to think that I was happy about a killing but at the same time that man had been the mastermind behind the destruction of the two towers. He was a mass murderer and he deserved what he got. On 9/11 I can still remember being in class one moment continuing normally through the day when all of a sudden our principal ran into the room talked to our Teacher Mrs. Roth and then they turned on TV and it was showing the twin towers brimming with smoke. They both started to cry and at the time I couldn't possibly hope to understand what was going on I was in first grade and we were not told much. At the time I had an uncle aunt and their daughters, my cousins that lived in New York. My Uncle had worked at a building that was close to the twin towers and he watched them fall. I could not even imagine the feeling that those people in New York and others who lost family and friends in this tragedy. It was the first foreign large scale terrorist attack on American soil and many lost some sense of security. The war on terror is not over by a long shot. Bin Ladin was their poster child but it is believed that there are still other leaders of the Taliban. Another thing that came to my mind when i heard the news was what if the Taliban decide to retaliate for the US killing Bin Ladin. I know that Security in airports has greatly increased since this disaster but there is only so much that we can do to prevent an attack on US soil. Tonight on the News I learned that Bin Ladin was not hiding in a cave somewhere out in a dessert but in fact he was living a life of luxury with his family near a middle class town. He was hiding in plain sight and felt secure enough to keep his family with him. The government there must have known something about who lived there after ten years. Even though they probably knew he was there they didn't do anything about it and did not inform the US I don't know how the US found out that he was there but i assume that it was another source. On the News they said that Osama Bin Ladin was not armed when they killed him. Some might say that we shouldn't have killed him because he wasn't dangerous without a gun, but to me he was very dangerous and what they did was very justified. Bin Ladins wife was injured and one of his sons was killed and this is sad because they had to pay for the actions of their father.
