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Bin Laden Killed, What Are Your Thoughts?

What have been your experiences with the War on Terror for the last decade?

Osama bin Laden has been killed, according to reports on the major U.S. networks.

"I can report to the American people and the world that the United States has conducted an operation that has killed Osama bin Laden," President Obama said in an address to the nation Sunday night.

Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., was said to have been killed while in a remote region of Pakistan and his body is reported to be in U.S. hands, according to CBS News. 

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CNN quoted a senior U.S. official as saying that U.S. forces killed bin Laden in a mansion outside Islamabad. 

The hunt for bin Laden has heavily shaped global and domestic politics for the last decade. How did 9/11 and the global War on Terror change you? Where do you see the war going from here? Tell us in the comments!

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