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When US President Obama announced that a special unit of the US forces had killed Osama Bin Laden, reactions all over Europe were similar. EU Institution leaders in Brussels and Heads of EU Member States in the national capitals showed relief that one of the most dangerous terrorists of the last decades was not a threat anymore. 

Then something happened. In a press conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a statement for the EU's largest member state saying that she was “happy that Bin Laden had been shot”. This gave rise to an immediate discussion in all media which forced Merkel to withdraw her statement soon after, saying that what she meant was that she was happy about the fact that the danger had ceased to exists â€" not that she was happy about the death of Bin Laden and about the fact that he had been killed by the US government. 

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