of obama: bin laden still pursued, 'deep underground'

Obama - Bin Laden still pursued, 'deep underground': Today marks the ninth anniversary of the September 11 911 attacks. Speaking to reporters in the White House East Room, President Barack Obama said that U.S. has forced Osama bin Laden "deep underground" but Americans will face an expanded terror threat for years to come from other al-Qaida extremists "willing to die to kill other people."


President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010.

Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Barack Obama said the U.S. has forced Osama bin Laden "deep underground" but Americans will face an expanded terror threat for years to come from other al-Qaida extremists "willing to die to kill other people."

The government is no less determined to kill or capture the 9/11 architect, he said. But the nation must remember the fight is with al-Qaida terrorists, not the much wider world of people of Muslim faith.

On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 2001 attacks, a day magnified by heightened tensions over a planned mosque near ground zero and a Florida pastor's threat to burn Qurans, Obama sought on Friday to reinforce the nation's founding belief of religious tolerance.

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