• Risch calls bin Laden's death good day for America: U.S. Sen. Jim Risch says the death of Osama bin Laden is good for America and vindication for the Sept. terrorist attacks led by Al-Qaida.

The Idaho Republican told KTVB-TV the operation that led to bin-Laden's death sends a message that America is committed to justice - no matter how long it takes.

Risch, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says bin-Laden's death also means America must be cautious about Al-Qaida-led reprisals.

U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson said while the news is worth celebrating, it is important to remember the victims of terrorism.

U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador told KTVB now is the time for the U.S. to begin pulling out of Afghanistan. Idahoans celebrate bin Laden's death at Capitol

A handful of Idahoans celebrated at the state Capitol in downtown Boise.

More than two dozen people gathered outside the front steps of the statehouse late Sunday night.

Some waved American flags or urged passing motorists to honk their car horns, while others chanted "U-S-A" to mark the news of the al-Qaida leader's death in a firefight in Pakistan.

Twenty-two-year-old veteran Michael Gallagher says he was motivated to go to downtown Boise after seeing on television crowds of Americans gathering to celebrate elsewhere, like outside the White House in Washington, D.C. and in downtown New York City.

Gallagher, of Boise, says bin-Laden's death is a personal vindication after serving in the war in Iraq and seeing friends injured and killed in combat.

• Fans react to Bin Laden news with 'U-S-A!' chants: Fans at the Mets-Phillies game in Philadelphia began chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" as the news of Osama bin Laden's death spread through Citizens Bank Park on Sunday night.

People could be spotted all over the ballpark checking their phones as news that the United States had killed the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks was breaking.

The "U-S-A!" chants started in the top of the ninth inning of the game and picked up in intensity throughout the inning.

• New York mayor says US kept promise to kill bin Laden: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says Americans have kept their promise after Sept. 11 to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

Bloomberg says the killing of the terrorist leader doesn't lessen the suffering Americans experienced at his hands the day the World Trade Center was destroyed but is a "critically important victory" for the nation. He says it's a tribute to the men and women in the armed forces who've fought so hard.

The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is just months away.

Bloomberg says in a statement he hopes news of bin Laden's demise will "bring some closure and comfort to all those who lost loved ones" that day.