Tonight President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden, the architect of the 9-11attacks, was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NSN joins all Americans in thanking our men and women in uniform and in the intelligence community who have sacrificed over the last nine years in the effort to bring justice to the man who was behind the deaths of 3,000 innocents. We also remember and thank the law enforcement and homeland security professionals who have kept America safe since the 9-11 attacks.

"Today's events, and the years since 9-11, remind us that the fundamental strength of the United States - our Constitution, our way of life, our unity in diversity - is greater than any terrorist threat," says NSN Senior Adviser Major General (ret.) Paul Eaton.

Those events also remind us that, as President Obama said tonight, the U.S. is not and never has been at war with Islam, but with those who intend to harm Americans. Bin Laden's death does not by itself end the risk of terrorism, but it does confirm America's ability to rise above any terrorist foe.

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