Osama bin Laden is dead

Osama bin Laden is dead. He was 54. The leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network had eluded capture for a decade since the attacks on September 11, 2001. U.S. forces and CIA operatives killed him in a firefight in his hideout compound in the city of Abbotabad, Pakistan. He was buried at sea. -- Lane Turner

Pakistani soldiers walk past the bin Laden compound, surrounded in red fabric, where locals reported a firefight took place overnight in Abbotabad, located in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province May 2. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)

A crashed military helicopter is seen near the hideout of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after an operation by U.S. Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

People celebrate in Times Square in New York City after the death of Osama bin Laden was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama May 2. (Mario Tama/Getty Images

A large, jubilant crowd reacts to the news of Osama bin Laden's death at the corner of Church and Vesey Streets, adjacent to ground zero, during the early morning hours of May 2, in New York City. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Servicemen hang off a lamp post cheering in celebration as thousands of people celebrate in the streets at Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center, waving American flags and honking horns to celebrate the death of Al Qaeda founder and leader Osama bin Laden on May 1, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Dionne Layne (right) hugs Mary Power as they react to the news of the death of Osama bin Laden May 2 in New York City. At left is the rising tower, 1 World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

Armed Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers stand guard in New York's Grand Central Station on May 2. Security was heightened as a result of the announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden. (Stephen Chernin/AP)

A pair of women honor their aunt, Cecelia E. Richard, who was killed in the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon, by carrying her picture amongst revelers near the White House in the early morning hours in Washington, May 2. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

People gathered around the gazebo on Boston Common after President Barack Obama announced that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden and taken custody of his body May 2. (Cecille Avila for The Boston Globe)

Afghan men working at a TV shop hug each other while watching the news of the death of Osama bin Laden May 2 in Kabul. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

People burn a photograph of Osama bin Laden as they celebrate his death in Ahmedabad, India May 2. (Stringer/Reuters)

A survivor pays homage at the memorial wall with the engraved names of 248 people killed in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi May 2. The Cooperative Bank building, which was also damaged in the August 7, 1998 truck bomb attack, is reflected on the memorial wall. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)

People read the extra edition of a Japanese newspaper in Tokyo May 2, reporting Osama bin Laden was killed in an operation by U.S. forces. (Shizuo Kambayashi/AP)

New pictures from Libya

Getty Images Photographer Chris Hondros, 41, was mortally wounded Wednesday in Misurata, Libya, not long after filing intimate, striking images of the fighting between rebel and government forces. Tim Hetherington, the director and producer of the documentary "Restrepo," was killed in the same attack. While Hetherington's photos were not available to us, we honor both his and Hondros' intense commitment to creating inspiring, touching, storytelling images with this post. The images that follow were made by Hondros in Misurata, Libya, the last three days of his life. Hondros and Hetherington will be missed by colleagues and millions worldwide who have been impacted through simply seeing their work. -- Paula Nelson

Photos from Misurata, Libya

A rebel fighter stands near the front lines on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata. April 18, 2011

The front line between Libyan government forces (L) and rebel insurgents (foreground) is seen on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata. April 18, 2011.

A rebel fighter wounded by shrapnel in the leg is brought to the hospital in the besieged city Misurata, Libya. Thousands of civilians are trapped in Misurata as fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there, as the Libyan uprising enters its third month. April 18, 2011.

A Libyan government fighter captured by rebels is treated in the hospital in the besieged cityl of Misurata, Libya. The Libyan government has come under international criticism for using heavy weapons and artillery in its assault on Misurata, which can cause civilian casualties. April 18, 2011

A wounded Libyan man has his X-rays looked over by a friend in the hospital in Misurata. April 18, 2011

A doctor stands by a Libyan woman who suffered shattered bones and serious abdominal injuries from an explosive shell landing on her home during fighting in the besieged city of Misurata. April 19, 2011

Foreign workers from Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries pile in the back of a truck with their belongings trying to leave as the sun sets on the port in Misurata, Libya. Thousands of foreign workers and Libyans alike are trying to leave war-torn Misurata, as fighting continued between Libyan government forces and anti-government rebels. April 18, 2011.

A Libyan rebel fighter celebrates as comrades fire on government loyalist troops who refused to surrender in a surrounded building (background) during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street. April 20, 2011.Libyan rebel forces fire a heavy rocket propelled grenade at a building holding government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street. April 20, 2011

Libyan rebel forces fire a heavy rocket propelled grenade at a building holding government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street. April 20, 2011

A rebel fighter stands in the destroyed lobby of a office building on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata. April 18, 2011.