SWC on Osama Bin Laden's Death: "Those Who Promote Evil Will Be Defeated"

May 1, 2011

The Simon Wiesenthal Center commends the efforts of the CIA on the death of Al Quada leader Osama bin Laden.

"Let his death serve as a open warning to yesterday's terrorists and tomorrow's that those who murder and maim will themselves will be destroyed," said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, dean and founder and associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

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