Afghans in the Taliban heartland of southern Afghanistan described Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda's "number one martyr" after the leader of the hardline group was killed in neighbouring Pakistan.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Monday he welcomed the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, who Washington said had been killed by the US forces in Pakistan, local media reported.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told US President Barack Obama that she was relieved about the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US forces, according to a statement released by her spokesman on Monday.
Pakistan's foreign ministry says the death of Osama bin Laden shows the resolve of his country and the world to battle terrorism.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban on Monday to cease fighting after the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and added they should learn a lesson from his death.
A US official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea.
US forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border, but in a million-dollar compound in an upscale suburb of Pakistan's capital, with his youngest wife.
The United States is conducting DNA testing on slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and used facial recognition techniques to help identify him, a US official said on Monday.
The United States believes that three adults besides Osama bin Laden were killed in Sunday's raid in Pakistan and that one of the dead was an adult son of bin Laden, a senior Obama administration official said.
The dollar rebounded from three-year lows and US crude slid more than 1 percent on Monday after news al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with US forces reduced the perception of security risks facing the United States.
President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people has been killed in Pakistan by US-led forces.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Americans have kept their promise after September 11, 2001, to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
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