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Bin
Laden
Killed
continued
from front
politics are played pretty hard in the
United States.
“ I think
w e’ve been
led to believe
there is a lot
more terror-
ism i n the
U.S.
than
there s. It’s
called a fear
factor. she Genesy Rogers
said.
Genesy Rogers was not sure if
bin Laden’s death will actually
A fter Osama bin Laden's death was announced by President Obama on Sunday, a spontaneous celebration broke out in Times
change anything. She was suspect
Square in New York City.
of misguided information that can
be communicated to the public by
the CIA.
“People are given information,
but they don’t really know what is
going on,” she said.
Because the U.S. has been fight­
ing the W ar on Terrorism for almost
a decade, some people question
whether or not Osama Bin Laden is
actually dead. Others wonder what
impact the killing of a world figure­
head for terrorism will mean to other
nations.
Jordan Anderson sees both good
and bad from the situation.
“I think it is good because it
shows the American people the
g o v e rn m e n t
will actually do
what it says it
will do,” the lo­
cal resid en t
said. “1 think it
is a negative
thing because
it’s just going
Shayla Spencer to make things
w orse in the
short-term; it will cause a spike in
negativity.”
“We just killed someone that for
many, I’m sure, represented a hero
because he stood up to the U.S.,” he
added.
Shayla Spencer quoted Malcolm
X, ‘“ We got the king, but what about
all the cubs?” ’
“We got him, but he was still
worshipped by a lot of people,”
Spencer said. “We got one person,
but it doesn’t add up to all of the
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