Al-Qaeda Confirms Bin Laden Death, Threatens Attack on U.S.

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Al-Qaeda confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden and threatened to retaliate “soon” against the U.S.

Bin Laden’s blood “is too valuable to us and to every Muslim to let it go in vain,” said a statement attributed to al-Qaeda, dated May 3 and posted on websites that have carried confirmed jihadist statements in the past.