TIME MAGAZINE will release a special issue on Thursday, May 5, in order to offer in-depth coverage of the death of the world' most wanted terrorist, al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden.

The special issue -- which features a giant red X over bin Laden's face -- will be 70-pages in length.

The issue will be the fifth TIME has put a giant X on its cover -- four of those X's were red, one was black.

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