Al-Qaeda confirms Osama’s death, vows revenge

Dubai: Al-Qaeda today confirmed the death of its chief Osama bin Laden, five days after the dreaded terrorist was killed by American commandos in Pakistan’s Abbottabad town, warning that his blood would not be “wasted” and attacks against the US and it allies would continue.
The confirmation came in a statement posted by the terror network on jihadist websites, according to the US monitoring group SITE.
In the statement, al-Qaeda warned that bin Laden’s blood would not be “wasted” and attacks on the US and its allies would continue.
54-year-old bin Laden was killed in a unilateral operation by special US forces in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad near Islamabad early Monday.