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Osama bin Laden, the purported master mind of the 9-11 attacks, is dead. American helicopters apparently attacked a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad yesterday during the dead of night. Authorities have confirmed that bin Laden was killed, along with 4 other individuals including a woman. The residence lies close to a Pakistani military base, about 30 miles from Pakistan’s capital Islamabad. The operation was reported to have been years in the making and involved tracing and following a courier used by bin Laden. U.S. Navy SEALS were involved but no other information is forthcoming from American authorities about the breakdown of forces and agencies. A number of Americans gathered outside the White House yesterday celebrating the news of bin Laden’s death. Afghan President Hamid Karzai reacted with satisfaction, saying “[t]he war against terrorism is in its sources, in its financial sources, its sanctuaries, in its training bases, not in Afghanistan.”

GUEST: Colleen Kelly, lost her brother, William Kelly, in the attacks at the World Trade Center and is a member of September 11th families for Peaceful Tomorrows (www.peacefultomorrows.org)

GUEST: Rick Reyes, Vice President of the LA Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Co-Founder of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan (www.rethinkafghanistan.com/veterans/)

GUEST: Ann Wright, retired US Army Colonel, former US Diplomat, were in Afghanistan from Dec 2001 to April 2002, reopening the US embassy, author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience and foreign policy critic

GUEST: Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil’s Game: How the US Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (www.robertdreyfuss.com)

GUEST: Robert Greenwald, founder of Brave New Films, Director of Rethink Afghanistan (www.rethinkafghanistan.org)

GUEST: Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence (www.vcnv.org)