in VOA Special English.Al-Qaida on Friday confirmedthe death of its leader,Osama bin Laden.The SITE Intelligence group saidal-Qaida released a statementon militant websites.The statement threatenedmore attackson Americans and their allies.Al-Qaida also urged Pakistanisto rebel against their government.It urged them to "cleansethe shame that has been attachedto them" by the death in Pakistan.American special-forces killedOsama bin Laden early Mondayduring a raid on a housewhere he had been living.BARACK OBAMA: "Today, at my direction,the United States launcheda targeted operation againstthat compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan."President Obama announced the newslate Sunday night in Washington.Abbottabad is a two-hour drivefrom Islamabad, the Pakistani capital,and has a large military presence.But Pakistani officials saythey had no ideathe al-Qaida leader was there.Mr. Obama said his death does notmark the end of the threat.BARACK OBAMA: "There's no doubtthat al-Qaida will continueto pursue attacks against us.We must –- and we will-- remain vigilant at home and abroad.As we do, we must also reaffirmthat the United States is not–- and never will be-– at war with Islam."Mr. Obama also had a messagefor families who lost loved onesto al-Qaida's terror.BARACK OBAMA: "Justice has been done."This year is the tenth anniversaryof the attacks against the United Stateson September eleventh, two thousand one.Almost three thousand people were killed.So now who, if anyone,will take control of al-Qaida?Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command,Ayman al-Zawahri,is considered a likely choice.(SOUND)That was Ayman al-Zawahri in a messagereleased in February.Mohamed Salah is editorof the al Hayat newspaper in London.He says Ayman al-Zawahri -- a surgeon-- is the real founder of al-Qaida.He says his experienceorganizing Islamists in Egyptis at least as importantas the ideas and financing that Osama bin Laden provided.The two men met during the fightagainst Soviet troops in Afghanistan.Now, American officialsare studying documents and computersseized during the raid in Abbottabad.American officials said immediatelyafter the raid that Osama bin Ladenhad been armed;they later said he was not armed.President Obama has rejected the releaseof photographs of the body, sayingthe images could incite violence.Officials say the body was buriedat sea from a Navy ship.On Friday, two United Nations investigatorsurged the United States to providemore details about the death.They say whether or not American forcesmet international human rights standardswhen they killed Osama bin Ladendepends on the facts.And those facts, they said,need to be brought out into the open.The American-based groupHuman Rights Watch agrees.Reed Brody from Human Rights Watchexplains why his grouphas joined the debate.REED BRODY: "I think it would bevery important for the USto give more information,both to show its justificationfor the legality and also franklyto prevent a lot of other countriesfrom hunting down their opponentseither at home or abroadand using this as justification."And that's IN THE NEWSin VOA Special English.For more on this story,go to 51voa.com.