Osama Bin Laden dead, US President Obama confirms This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Osama Bin Laden dead, US President Obama confirms Close US President Barack Obama has given a statement confirming the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. He said the operation to find Bin Laden had taken many years, but "last week I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorised an operation to get" him. Subsection Middle East Published 2 May 2011 Share close panel Share page Copy link About sharing Read description