The Right Man For The Job

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday the killing of Osama bin Laden would benefit Russia as it fights an Islamist insurgency along its southern flank.

'The liquidation of terrorists, even on the level of ... bin Laden, has a direct relationship to the level of security on the territory of our state,' he said, in his first public comments on the al Qaeda leader's killing during a U.S. raid in Pakistan.