President hails firefighters and police, lays wreath, meets families of 9/11 victims (by Ap and msnbc)
New York City.Ap. On a mission to bury the memory of Osama bin Laden by honoring those who died in the fiery Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, President Barack Obama on Thursday visited firefighters and police who lost colleagues at New York's Ground Zero and laid a wreath at the site. And Obama was greeted by more than 1,000 well-wishers when his motorcade arrived at Ground Zero. Some screamed, jumped up and down, waved and flashed “V” signs with their fingers. The crowd was cordoned off from the site of the wreath-laying.
Members of Indonesia's Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) hold prayers for Osama bin Laden in Jakarta May 4. Indonesian Islamists hailed bin Laden as a martyr on Wednesday, illustrating sympathy for the al-Qaida leader among Southeast Asian militant groups.
(by Beawiharta / Reuters)
A special issue of the magazine, Time, on the death of Osama bin Laden, will hit newsstands on Thursday, May 5. The cover show a red “X” over bin Laden’s face, and the magazine says it is the fourth cover in Time’s history to feature the red “X.” Other covers showed Adolf Hilter on May 7, 1945, Saddam Hussein on April 21, 2003, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on June 19, 2006.
(Time via AP)
Jim Schweizer, assistant to the director of Fort Snelling National Cemetery, straightens flowers at the grave of Thomas Burnett, May 2, in Bloomington, Minn. Burnett died on Sept, 11, 2001 along with 39 other passengers and crew when Flight 93 was hijacked and crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pa. Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with elite American forces in Pakistan on Monday, and then quickly buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run.
(byRichard Sennott / AP)
Jeff Ray of Shanksville, Pa., visits the temporary memorial to United Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., Monday, May 2.
(Gene J. Puskar / AP)
“They that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty - literally, “More than the hairs of my head are my haters falsely (those who hate me falsely); strong are those destroying me; my enemies.”