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Large crowds gathered outside the White House after news of Osama Bin Laden's death began to filter out. People cheered, waved the flag and sang "God Bless America."

Osama bin Laden was holed up in a fortified compound north of Pakistan's capital Islamabad when four helicopters carrying U.S. anti-terrorism forces swooped in the early morning hours Monday and killed him.

Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957. The al-Qaida leader was once celebrated as a hero there. But he had become a pariah because of his terrorist activities and opposition to the Saudi monarchy. There has been no official reaction yet to bin Laden's death from Saudi Arabia.

Now computer programmer Shohaib Athar is known as "the guy who live-blogged the Osama raid without knowing it."

Osama bin Laden has been killed in a firefight in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Dan Byman, a senior fellow and director of research at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, talks to Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne about bin Laden's death. Byman was a professional staff member on the Sept. 11 Commission.

Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. He was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. For some analysis, Renee Montagne talks to counterterrorism expert David Kilcullen of the Center for a New American Security. He is also CEO of Caerus Associates and author of the books The Accidental Guerilla and Counterinsurgency.

Marines in Afghanistan welcomed the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan, seeing it as a breakthrough in their mission.

Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and leader of al-Qaida has been killed. But as Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation notes, his death is a sobering reminder of how the war on terror has impacted all U.S. citizens. It is also an opportunity to end that war.

On Sunday President Obama announced that the U.S. forced had engaged in a firefight at the home of Osama bin Laden, killing the al-Qaida leader. William Kristol of The Weekly Standard offers his congratulations to all those involved in the mission.

At play could be the same delicate diplomatic balance of official denial and private complicity the countries have shared after U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan.