Saudi hopes with bin Laden death an “evil has ended”

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of  al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, hopes that with his death, an  “evil has ended”, the Gulf Arab state’s deputy interior minister  said today.
“We hope that with the death of Osama bin Laden, an evil has  ended,” Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz told reporters at a meeting  of Gulf interior ministers. “He has been an evil to himself, to  his immediate family and to the Arab countries as a whole.”
He added that while bin Laden may be a symbol, Saudi Arabia  did not know if he was al Qaeda’s “main driver” or if the global  militant network was comprised of a number of separate groups  that were unlinked.