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A crowd cheers at the corner of Vesey and Liberty streets next to Ground Zero in New York, May 2, 2011, after hearing news of Osama bin Laden's death. Bin Laden planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and has been hunted by American forces in the years since. The Freedom Tower, the skyscraper being built where the World Trade Center towers once stood, is now 60 stories tall and visible from the street.

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A crowd cheers at the corner of Vesey and Liberty streets next to Ground Zero in New York, May 2, 2011, after hearing news of Osama bin Laden's death. Bin Laden planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and has been hunted by American forces in the years since. The Freedom Tower, the skyscraper being built where the World Trade Center towers once stood, is now 60 stories tall and visible from the street.

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