John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, said Wednesday that “we cannot relent” in the war against al Qaeda, despite the death of Osama bin Laden. (Associated Press)
**FILE** U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, secure the area after exiting a Chinook helicopter, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, on June 18, 2006. Insurgents shot down on Aug. 6, 2011, a U.S. military helicopter similar to this one shown during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said. (Associated Press)
Virginia Beach residents Tom Hall (left) and Mark Janik (center) watch the news about the Navy SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011, in Virginia Beach, the headquarters of the elite Navy group, whose members captured Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
"The death of Osama bin Laden will not ruin our spirit for jihad. We do it not for a figure. We do it for God's blessing," said Muhammad Syarif Tarabubun, a former police officer who was sentenced in the attack on a karaoke club in Ambon.
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama (seated, second from left), Vice President Joseph R. Biden (far left), Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (seated, second from right), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (seated, far right) and others follow the unfolding mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.
A local resident walks near a house (center) on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in early May. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed)
**FILE** Osama bin Laden is pictured here in Afghanistan in April, 1998. (Associated Press)
A Pakistani police officer and a rescue worker examine the site of a bomb blast in a bus stop in Matani, near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, June 5, 2011. The explosion killed several people in the violence hitting the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
A supporter of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami shouts during a rally against drone attacks Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Karachi, Pakistan. Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda commander and possible replacement for Osama bin Laden who is accused of the 2008 Mumbai massacre, was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, a fax from the militant group he heads and a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
