U.S. allies offer congratulations on death of Osama bin Laden

News that Osama bin Laden has been killed brought messages of congratulations from some of the United States' closest allies.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Bin Laden's death would "bring great relief to people across the world."

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"Osama bin Laden was responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen -- for 9/11 and for so many attacks, which have cost thousands of lives, many of them British," Cameron said in a statement. "It is a great success that he has been found and will no longer be able to pursue his campaign of global terror."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Bin Laden's death a "victory for justice, freedom and the common values of every democratic nation that fights shoulder to shoulder in the struggle against terrorism," Bloomberg News reported.

In India, Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said the killing of Bin Laden "deep inside Pakistan" underscored concern that terrorists "belonging to different organizations find sanctuary in Pakistan." Chidambaram urged Pakistan to arrest those involved in carrying out the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai, according to Bloomberg News. How will the terrorist network react to this death?

Obama team more closely linking al Qaeda to terror attempt

Honolulu, Hawaii (CNN) -- In a marked shift from previous positions, senior Obama administration officials now say they are starting to see an al Qaeda connection to the attempted terror attack on a U.S.-bound airliner.
In the days after the failed attempt on Christmas Day, administration officials steadfastly shied away from linking the incident to the terror group and, in some cases, said there was no evidence of such a connection.
But one senior administration officials said late Tuesday that "some of the new information that we developed overnight does suggest that there was some linkage there" with al Qaeda.
The senior administration official was referring to intelligence that White House officials obtained late Monday night and then briefed President Obama about on Tuesday in a secure conference call.