"Back then I think there would have been a big reaction, but [his death] won't have any effects on our day-to-day operations here," says Capt. Jason Johnson. "It's business as usual."
"While some Afghan government officials hailed the news as a significant blow to Taliban morale, they too downplayed its impact on the conflict."
"The reaction was similarly muted at street level, with Bin Laden's end seen as little more than a footnote to the costly war he set in motion as a guest of the Taliban long ago. "The war goes on and on and Afghans are dying."
"Mullah Omar, the Taliban's one-eyed leader, remains at-large and is still believed to be hiding across the border in Pakistan where Bin Laden was killed. A day after the Pentagon released a report that the insurgents' momentum had been "broadly arrested," the Taliban on Saturday announced the start of their spring offensive."
Back from May 02, 2011...:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2068888,00.html
