U.S. government: Osama bin Laden is dead

The leader of the terrorist network Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden is dead, this will tell U.S. President Barack Obama in a brief television address, said a senior representative of the U.S. government, the news agency AFP. Disclosure of the circumstances of death, he was not. The U.S. channel reported bin Laden had been killed in a house near the Pakistani capital Islamabad. The U.S. had its corpse. Obama was on Sunday night announced a surprise address to the nation, due to commence in the next few minutes.