(Reuters) - The death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was greeted with near-silence on Monday from Gulf Arab states, including his birthplace Saudi Arabia.
By mid-afternoon, the only official comment from the Arabian Peninsula came from Yemen, bin Laden's ancestral homeland, where an official speaking on condition of anonymity hoped the killing would "root out terrorism throughout the world".
Saudi Arabia's official news agency merely noted that the United States and Pakistan had announced bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. military operation in Pakistan but gave no clue to Riyadh's thinking.
The foreign ministers of Bahrain, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, attending a meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi, all declined to comment on bin Laden's death.
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