Sound Off: Osama bin Laden is Dead

The news of Osama bin Laden's death spread rapidly across New Jersey and Monmouth County Sunday evening, despite the late hour.

At 11:30 p.m., President Barack Obama confirmed the news. He said a small U.S. team launched the operation in Pakistan today. "Justice has been done."

Reaction was swift and almost universal: Exultation that one of the United States' most elusive foes was dead, and dead as a result of U.S. action.

In an extraordinary address, President Obama interrupted almost every U.S. television channel to announce the news.

Several local victims were among the thousands that died in the collapse of the World Trader Center towers. The attack claimed the lives of Red Bank residents Michael Patrick McDonnell, 34, Robert Andrew Spencer, 35, Joao Aguiar Jr., 30, Daniel James Gallagher, 23, Mark Hemschoot, 45, Brendan Lang, 30, and Shrewsbury residents Robert Talhami, 40, and Sal Edward Tieri Jr., 40.

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For Obama's full speech, watch the attached video clip, uploaded to YouTube by the White House.