After more than a decade of hunting for him the U-S has finally caught up with and killed Osama Bin Laden.
Thousands of lives have been lost in several countries in what the US calls its war on terror.
From Afghanistan and Pakistan to Iraq and London civilians bore brunt of attacks and retaliatory attacks.
In the end it cost almost one point three trillion dollars to get the elusive Al Qaeda founder.
So what is next. Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports.
