The intelligence community and the military did a "fantastic," job in the tracking down and killing of Osama bin Laden, said Christopher Kukk, a former intelligence officer and International Securities Fellow at the Kennedy School in Boston. "It's easy to just pull the trigger. What is so hard is capturing everything in the net."

Kukk, who is a reviewer with International Security, said the intelligence community who set up this operation never tipped their hand, which is remarkable, considering the tip arrived in Augus 2010. "He was hiding in plain sight. That is huberis."

Kukk said the intelligence workers wanted the computers, cell phones and other data that might have been with bin Laden. Jump at the wrong second and the man and information all disappear. "You're not just going in for the arrest."

"It's crazy. It's about time," said Hobson Lopes, a junior at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. "I was in high school at Abbott Tech when the 911 attacks took place."

Lopes, 25, said he learned about the 911 attacks from a nurse at the Danbury tech school, and about the death of bin Laden from his fiancee Sunday night.

"It's about time," Lopes said.

It seemed a bit more personal for Billy Felmer, 24, of Bethel, who served in the U.S. Marines in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

"My friends Killed Osama bin Laden," Felmer wrote on his jeep parked today at Western Connecticut State University. "I've been waiting for this for 10 years. I'm so happy he's dead."

President Barack Obama addressed the country shortly after 11:30 p.m., Sunday, to say that Osama bin Laden, the head of Al Qaeda, has been killed.

"On the nights like this one...justice has been done," Obama said.

In Danbury, the death hits close to home because so many people remember 911.

"It's definitely a moral victory, and bringing someone to justice who was the mastermind of the 911 attacks is so important," said Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton. "Around here, the 911 attacks hit close to home and they'll be in our hearts our whole life."

A member of the U.S. Army Reserves, and a captain in the Judge Advocate General's office, (JAG) Danbury resident Tom Saadi said, "It's great this terrorist is dead. It's a great victory, but this war isn't over."

Saadi was voicing his own opinion. Saadi, 41, grew up in Danbury with parents of Lebanese descent. He speaks Arabic, and is driving to Fort Dix in New Jersey Monday morning to teach a class on Midddle Eastern Law and Islamic Law and Culture. Saadi has lived in Saudi Arabia and visited Jordan, Egypt, Cyprus and Lebanon. Saadi, like many Danbury residents with Middle Eastern heritage, is a Catholic from the Eastern Rite.

"It's important for our troops to understand the Middle East. They don't have to agree with everything, but they need to understand," Saadi said. "They have the due process of law, but it isn't necessarily the same rule of law as it is in the U.S."

Danbury Police Chief Al Baker warned people that this is a time to be extra careful about a retaliatory attack by people angry about bin Laden's death.

"It's a significant event. Both of my boys have served in Iraq," said Baker. "We're always concerned about a retaliatory response. We urge everyone to be extra vigilant."

The director of civil preparedness in Danbury, Paul Estefan, said nothing changes with the death of bin Laden.

"There are just too many people out there who don't like us," Estefan said. "We have to learn not to let our guard down."

The president said the United States first learned of bin Laden's possible whereabouts in August, and after months of intelligence work, launched a targeted attack.

"Last week, I determined we had enough intelligence to take action," Obama said. "After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

Bin Laden is credited with orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington D.C. and Shanksville, PA.

"The American people did not choose this fight," Obama said. "It came to our shores and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens."

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