Bin Laden was not operating in the U.S. armed
. Carney says that fired in women's leg of Bin Laden
. The journalists have asked how you can defend without weapons
. The White House spokesman said "the resistance does not require firearm '
The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, explained some of the details of the Operation Geronimo', which took the life of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, but have still left some questions unanswered.
For example, the spokesman said that "Bin Laden would not be armed, but tried to defend herself." A reporter asked how she could defend himself unarmed, but the White House spokesman has not gone into details: "The resistance does not need a firearm. "
In fact, the woman who was with Osama, they did fire at the U.S. military and they responded with" a shot in the leg, "is still alive, although at first he was said killed in the fray.
Still, Carney has insisted that the objective of the mission was to "capture or kill Osama", and not just kill him as he had said, although the White House was raised to bomb the house Osama.
The strength of the leader of Al Qaeda were in addition to their family, two families that also lived in Saudi and his wife live it in the second.
Carney wanted to be very careful with the words they used when describing the removal and burial of the corpse of Bin Laden. In fact, White House spokesman used the word "slide" to refer to the fact throw the body at sea.
Washington has said that "Bin Laden's picture is frightening" and is considering whether to make them public or not. "There are many sensitivities involved," he added.
He explained that the experts are doing an "assessment" on whether or not to publish the images, whose number has not been specified, mainly due to these "sensitivities" that could result, taking into account that other Bin Laden received at least one shot in the head.
According to the spokesman, the Government of Barack Obama does not rule out that their publication could provoke reactions "incendiary" in some parts of the world.
therefore continued, among the aspects being considered before deciding whether to publish images is the question "what is to be achieved" so if "damaged in any way the interests [U.S.] not only domestic but globally. "
The White House spokesman has insisted that his "main objective is to destroy Al Qaeda, not to kill Bin Laden." In fact, Carney has used the image of the snake to ensure that "we killed the snake," but not finished with the monster.
The White House has also referred to relations with Pakistan after the operation saying it is an important country because "common interests" and not a question of trust.
And is that minutes earlier had confirmed that Carney did not reveal any detail the Pakistani government for fear that the operation was affected, suggesting that full confidence in China's secret service. Geronimo
EKIA '
"Geronimo-EKIA." So said the CIA director, Leon Panetta, the death of Osama Bin Laden to the U.S. government. Geronimo, the name key leader in Al Qaeda, "enemy killed in action" ("Enemy Killed In Action ', in English), is also the name of the last Apache chief, one of the Native American tribes who fought against the West Was Won by U.S..
nickname Bin Laden This immediately evokes the films of cowboys and Indians, the 'Indian wars', as inspired by the ideas of 'manifest destiny', led to white settlement in search of gold and new lands. The last leader
apache inspired many Hollywood films, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, in which fierce Indians attacked innocent caravans and settlers farms that 'only' looking for gold and fortune. Only
over the years, with the awareness of the native problem in the United States, some works represented the reality of the Indian chief, forced to leave their land to be confined to a reservation.
moral Bridging the gap between the terrorist and the U.S. expelled from their native land, real Geronimo as Bin Laden also fought against the U.S. military.
Resisting U.S. Geronimo
born free in Arizona in 1829 and died in prison in an Oklahoma Indian reservation eighty years later. Their struggle began with the Indian chief Cochise against Mexicans, who killed his wife his son and his mother in an attack on their village in 1858. After fighting against them, would follow the Americans, who wanted to confine his people on an Indian reservation.
Bin Laden, son of a wealthy Saudi family, he went to Afghanistan to fight Soviet occupation. Once expelled in 1989 after the 1991 Gulf War, his al Qaeda network ('base') focused on the jihad against America and Israel orchestrated attacks that culminated with more than 3,000 people killed the 11-S . He became the No. 1 enemy of the United States.
Unlike bin Laden, Geronimo fought not to be arrested on their land. The 'Apache Wars' continued during years in which Geronimo worked his fierce reputation to defend himself with a few dozen men in the U.S.. However, the U.S. landed on him at the thousands of men of the Fourth Cavalry, leading to its surrender in 1886. The fierce apache
spent the rest of his life imprisoned far from their village. Locked in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, was forced to forget their gods to embrace Christianity and to be exhibited in fairs,
precisely one of its public exhibitions was a parade of President Theodore Roosevelt, the Peace Prize that instigated the independence of Panama to build a canal and the English colonies in the Caribbean, the U.S. inherited Guantánamo.
The U.S. Army and the Indians
Although colonization and Indian extermination, an important part of American culture drinks from his Indian roots, and many states maintain their native peoples names like Idaho and Dakota.
The U.S. military is no stranger to them and their weapons are nominated with native terms. The missiles 'Tomahawk' are so named in memory of Indian tomahawks, and their ships are dubbed with names of tribes: the AH-64 Apache and CH-47 'Chinook'.
Moreover, the 501 U.S. Infantry Division is called 'Geronimo', a name that has led to the cry that stick many soldiers in times of action, such as parachute jumps.
A mortal blow to Al Qaeda? U.S. experts disagree
satisfaction for the death of Bin Laden was a sentiment echoed yesterday not only because the vast majority of the public and published, but also by American experts on international politics. However, among analysts, there are notable differences when assessing the relevance and impact of the death of the leader of Al Qaeda in the U.S. struggle waged against jihadist terrorism.
These are the views of some of the most respected experts in the country:
Fareed Zakaria, CNN
This is a huge hit, devastating to Al Qaeda, which had already been undermined by Arab Spring. It is no exaggeration to say that this is the end of Al Qaeda in any deep sense of the word.
Al Qaeda is not an organization you have massive resources. Not have a big army. Al Qaeda was an idea and an ideology, symbolized by the extremely charismatic figure of Bin Laden. History teaches us that the loss of the charismatic leader, the symbol, is extremely harmful to the organization. It is very difficult to maintain a united organization of this type, especially if not supported by any superpower.
Fred Kagan, American Enterprise
Institute
The death of Osama Bin Laden is a major achievement. However, not the end of the fight against Al Qaeda, or even less, the fight against Islamism. Cancer metastatic Al Qaeda made a long time in Pakistan, the Arabian Peninsula, and African Muslims. Experts who study this organization have long described their flexibility, decentralized nature. Other previous attacks have shown their resilience.
The moment of celebration is, therefore, of great danger. Not only groups [members] of Al Qaeda will seek revenge for the death of Bin Laden, but U.S. and its partners can deceive himself that the War is over. They may believe that we can to the fight now, and withdraw from Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the region.
Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
Hopefully it will be very important to Bin Laden's death, but do not think so. He had become primarily an inspiration, a charismatic leader, but without an operational capacity. In fact, he never really was the operational leader, which always corresponded to al-Zawahiri, unfortunately, still alive.
Al Qaeda has become a conglomerate of organizations with a national base, acting for free, without further orders from a central leadership. Bin Laden was hiding, did not communicate by phone or internet, not going to important meetings. He was not directly responsible for the actions of recent years, but it was in a broader sense, charismatic leader. And I fear that that role will continue to exercise despite being dead. I worry about his legend.
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
We must face the reality that the social, political and religious who broke the terrorist and extremist ameneaza remain. Furthermore, these [factors] have been reinforced in the eyes of extremists by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, turmoil in the Middle East and Muslim states, and anger to local regimes and the U.S..
is highly unlikely that the death of Bin Laden, or even the destruction of Al Qaeda can eliminate the broader threat of extremism and terrorism. There is a serious risk that those in Pakistan who oppose U.S. action in Pakistan against the Taliban react with a new hostility to the fact that the U.S. carried out the attack in paquitaní soil. And there was no way to cover up the attack. Jonhathan
Alter, Bloomberg
We do not know in a few years as a result of the death of Bin Laden to U.S. foreign policy. It may be only temporary. But it seems to be a turning point, if not the world, themselves to the sense of who we [Americans].
intelligence services had failed all his great reviews from the 70's, were not able to predict the evolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Kuwait invasion by Iraq ... More recently, the CIA believed false reports on the possession of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein.
To change this feeling, needed a big win, how to get bin Laden. Beyond politics, there is the intangible American spirit. Bin Laden's death will not end the war against Al Qaeda. But lift the veil that has afflicted us during the last decade. The old confidence that beat the Depression allowed [in 1929] and win the World War II is not dead.
Fawaz Gerges, professor at the London School of Economics
Although the death of Bin Laden is a significant victory for the U.S., Al Qaeda is no longer a powerful organization. Bin Laden has become only a symbol of hatred and violence. Although suicide bombings are still the weapon of al Qaeda, its ability to project power and conduct complex attacks such as the 11-S has declined considerably, despite repeated threats from al-Zawahiri last year that U.S. attack .
The indiscriminate attack on civilians has become the general Muslim public against the tactics and ideology of Al Qaeda. For most Muslims, Al Qaeda has brought ruin to the ummah, or global Muslim community.
CIA bombing raised the bunker where bin Laden was hiding
'A partnership with the Pakistanis had the risk of jeopardizing the mission, "CIA says Pakistan asks
a woman and several children Bin Laden who were in the bunker
Among the relatives is one Bin Laden's teenage daughter who witnessed her death
Islamabad said he had no knowledge of the U.S. operation
Bunker bomb Osama Bin Laden or launch a cruise missile on it. These were two of the options, until last Thursday, raised the CIA to destroy the enemy number 1, as stated by its director, Leon Panetta said in an interview with Time magazine. According
Panetta has some agency advisers were reluctant to storm the home of the terrorist, as finally made a command elite soldiers (from the SEALS scary), because they had experienced the failure of similar military operations in Iran and Somalia.
Until last Thursday, was on the table the option of bombing the bunker of Abbottabad, where, according to sources quoted by the magazine, Bin Laden family had lived since 2005 - B-2 fighter aircraft, or a "direct shot", ie, cruise missiles. According to Panetta, both options were rejected for fear of "too much collateral damage."
Although these two 'solutions' extreme, the agency had no complete assurance that bin Laden is hidden in the complex, only 60% or 80%, according Pannet. Had "circumstantial evidence" but U.S. satellites had failed to capture any image of the terrorist. However, the director of the CIA believes that "the nature of the security of the complex, we were at a point where we had the best evidence we could get."
Why not warn
The Pakistani government, whose intelligence services and military have been in an embarrassing position after news that Bin Laden was hiding in his country, was quick to announce in a statement that the CIA had provided information on Complex Abbottabad, from 2009 to mid April.
"It is important to stress that taking advantage of superior technology assets, the CIA exploited the intelligence leads provided by us to identify and get to Osama bin Laden," the note said Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
"It makes us look like fools or idiots. It's pretty embarrassing," said a source Pakistani intelligence cited by Reuters. However, he said, the CIA also failed to find bin Laden for a decade. "If we had known where it was, we would have caught ourselves," he said.
However, Washington decided not to inform their plans Islamabad. The CIA director has said that Pakistan "would have been alert" the head of al Qaeda attack was imminent. "We decided that a partnership with the Pakistani had the risk of compromising the mission would have been able to alert the target" he said.
Pakistan has been quick to criticize, in the above statement, the U.S. operation they labeled a "unilateral action unauthorized." "No base or facility within Pakistan was used by U.S. forces or the government of Pakistan provided logistical or operational support to these operations carried out by U.S. forces." Interrogation
Bin Laden's family
Islamabad has also confirmed it has held for members of the Bin Laden family who hid him in the bunker in Abbottabad, waiting to be transferred to their countries of origin.
One of the family retained is a daughter of the terrorist, 12 or 13, who witnessed the operation and one of those confirmed the death of the leader of al Qaeda, sources said Pakistani intelligence services cited by Reuters.
This source said the hostages are women, that no terrorist was shot, as stated initially, although wounded in the leg, and eight of their children who will be questioned.
Initially, it was said that during the assault on bin Laden was behind a young woman, identified by some sources as one of his wives, and fired at U.S. soldiers. The latest information that have transpired on Tuesday indicate that the leader of Al Qaeda was not armed at the time of 'Operation Geronimo. "
sources said Pakistani intelligence services (ISI) cited by the BBC, the command elite soldiers planned to be women and children in the complex, but had to abandon the plan when it failed one of its helicopters. However, Americans did take a living person, possibly a son of bin Laden, according to the source of ISI. At the time of the military operation in the house-bunker in which the terrorist was hiding there were 17 or 18 people.
The mission, the U.S. has compiled an "amazing amount" of complex material, including computers and other electronic devices, in the words of CIA director.
No photo, the fundamentalists 'online' I do not believe
Al Qaeda has been one of the pioneer organizations in the use of Internet. So how have reacted fundamentalists 'online' to the death of Bin Laden? Two very different forms. The leadership of the groups seems neither accepts nor denies that the U.S. assassinated the founder of the terrorist group. But the 'class of troops' continues to accept the conspiracy theories that insist that bin Laden is not dead. At least, until we have picture to prove it.
In fact, the argument that Osama lives has gained support, according to Professor Aaron Zlein, Brandeis University, which runs the site jihadology.net, which monitors such groups. "As that the day passes, more skepticism among the foundations of online jihadist movement, "wrote Zlein. At the same time, as in any conspiracy theory, proponents of the view that Osama is alive only communicate with each other." Many are remaining sources of the 'mujahideen' ('holy warriors') than the 'kuffar' ('infidels', a word from which the word 'kaffir' English).
Thus, the self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which theoretically are the Taliban, said yesterday that "we can not make any comment about whether he is dead or not" based solely on that "Americans say that killed ". The board administrator Shumuk al-Islam, declared that" we can not verify the death of an independent source. "The website, which is usually placed in Canada, cited a 'Foundation Andalucía' describing a great battle they would have died "32 apostates (...) including a large number of officers".
Other comments were more pessimistic. At dawn yesterday, English time, Zlein hung a series of 'posts' in 'chats' Islamists with phrases like 'Oh, God, that is not true'; "It's a catastrophe if authentic," and the more sophisticated: "The Americans are doing this in order to withdraw from Afghanistan this year." Nor lack
who is happy that Osama is dead and he said he wanted to die, as a martyr. "May Allah give you a place next to our beloved Prophet. So be it," said one participant. Another compares favorably with the death of Bin Laden with the capture of Saddam Hussein: "If this is true, we must give thanks to Allah because America was not able to capture him alive. Otherwise it would have been humiliated as Saddam Hussein." There is also much tougher sentences "I'm with Osama, or winning, or become martyrs." Source
newspaper "El Mundo"
The White House says Bin Laden was not armed when he was killed
U.S. reveals that bin Laden was not armed
The White House says that the terrorist was killed by the resistance offered .- "The resistance does not require a firearm," said spokesman Jay Carney, who does not give more details
Osama Bin Laden was not armed when U.S. special forces raided the residential complex of Abbottabad. Jay Carney has made clear, White House spokesman, during his appearance on Tuesday before the media. Why did they kill the leader of Al Qaeda, then, instead of stopping it? "He resisted. The U.S. personnel in the field are handled with the utmost professionalism and was killed in the operation by dogged resistance," said Carney. "The resistance does not require a firearm, "he added.
The statement that you have read the spokesperson described how, on the first floor, special forces killed two messengers in the service of Bin Laden, along with a woman who reached the shooting. Since the terrorist in the room, on the third floor, one of his wives intervened and was shot in the leg, but did not die. Then, the terrorist was killed by agents.
Carney also referred to U.S. decision not to inform Pakistan of the mission, describing the relationship between the two countries "complicated but important." We must be careful not to generalize, said of suspicions that Bin Laden lived for so long (six years) in the complex. About
photographs of Bin Laden dead, the spokesman justified still have not seen the light because their publication could be "inflammatory." The image of the body is "appalling", according to Carney.
enemy killed in action
"EKIA Geronimo." With this brief statement, the CIA director, Leon Panetta, announced Monday the death of Bin Laden. A few seconds after hearing the code name for the principal purpose of U.S. intelligence since the 11-S followed by the acronym of "enemy killed in action" (Enemy Killed in action), Barack Obama, met with his advisers on the crisis room of the White House, spoke at last: "I have."
A member of the elite command of the Navy SEAL pulled a photograph of the body of the tall, bearded man, and sent it to analysts who, through facial recognition software, they determined that there was a 95% chance that try to Bin Laden. One of the wives of al Qaeda also identified the body, according to The New York Times, although the crucial confirmation came later after comparing DNA samples from family members, yielding a 99.9% certainty.
The beginning of the operation that culminated eight months of work and years of data collection predicted a disaster. Two dozen commands the elite unit of the Navy SEALs had to climb down two Black Hawk helicopters at dawn on Monday in a fortified complex in the city of Abbottabad, 60 miles north of Islamabad, where Bin Laden was hiding from five or six years ago, as confirmed on Tuesday John Brennan, chief security adviser at the White House. But one of the aircraft suffered a mechanical failure and fell, its tail entangled in a wall of 3.5 meters.
Details of the American press differ on where the unit fell and if the goal was that the military descended within or outside the residential complex, as related in The Washington Post. According to this newspaper, the accident forced the soldiers aboard the Black Hawk damaged, they should have started the operation from outside, had to struggle to hide from the men of terror inside the fortified courtyard.
At the other end of the world, the war council gathered in the room gasped crisis, according to Brennan. No one wanted another Black Hawk Down as occurred in Somalia in 1993, one of the recurring nightmares in all previous meetings to decide how to conduct the operation. A third helicopter, a Chinook, was sent for emergency support. Finally, according to the Washington newspaper, the seals that are taken down off campus joined those who fell within, and exchanging fire advanced.
From the room crisis, the U.S. president and his team continued to live on progress by the resort's main building, room by room, floor by floor, most of the time in silence. Obama's face looked "stone" as a helper. The vice president, Joe Biden, spent the rosary beads. On one screen, the CIA director told from the agency's headquarters, across the Potomac River, what was happening in Pakistan.
"The minutes passed like days," he told Brennan. "It was probably one of the periods of heightened anxiety, I think, in the lives of all we were together, "described the principal security adviser for the White House.
Weeks
training command had flown to Pakistan during the night from a base in Jalalabad, in neighboring Afghanistan. The goal was to enter and leave the country before the Pakistani authorities detect even the incursion of what for them would lead to unknown forces, and could react filter details. The team members were trained for weeks and practiced daily in a precise replica of the residential complex known as the walls and features field, and potential occupants that could be found, reports The Washington Post. According to The New York Times, trainings were conducted in replicates raised on both U.S. coasts, although initially no seals were informed of what the precise objective.
trials covered a wide range of scenarios, including the possibility that Bin Laden tried to surrender, so the seals also practiced the method to stop it, according to a military source was quoted as saying. Using commands in Arabic, the team had to give the terrorist the opportunity to surrender and open fire only if he resisted, as eventually happened. The Black Hawk
Abbottabad arrived just after midnight Monday. Although they had the element of surprise, soon to lose altitude helicopters, neighbors heard a loud explosion and gunfire. The scandal was such that a local resident reported the events live on Twitter.
Once inside the main building, each room commands methodically combed up to the upper floors, where they hoped to find bin Laden, while the White House attended the talks through secure lines. After killing two men and a woman, and about half an hour after landing, the seals found Bin Laden the third floor, dressed in tunic and baggy trousers traditional area.
"We have visual contact with Geronimo [code name for bin Laden, referring to the Apache leader]," he said via video Leon Panetta, director of the CIA. Minutes later, the expected words: "Geronimo EKIA." Enemy killed in action.
has not transcended if bin Laden and officers exchanged a word, or what exactly the resistance was cited by the White House. Yes, the most wanted terrorist leader received at least one shot in the head and several in the chest. A shot over his left eye blew off part of the skull, the pictures described by sources of AP, and died instantly.
Before heading to the set point of collection, the seals blew the helicopter crashed. In the room left 23 children and nine women, according to AP, but according to an official Pakistani custody have only nine children aged between two and 12 years. Towards
1.10 local time, the commands were uploaded to the other Black Hawk and Chinook sent as reinforcements and flew the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, in the northern Arabian Sea. There, the body went through the Islamic ritual, the spokeswoman said the White House. The body was washed and placed in a white sheet and put in a bag. An officer read religious passages, that a translator repeated in Arabic. Then the body of Bin Laden was thrown into the water.
Only after leaving Pakistani airspace, Obama telephoned the president, Asif Ali Zardari, to inform the operation that had taken place, according to The Washington Post. Three options
To reach this military success, Obama had to choose the riskiest option among the three raised by team: an assault by U.S. commandos in helicopters, an attack by B-2 bombers, or a joint venture Pakistani intelligence services, that would be informed just hours before the operation.
The second option was eventually discarded when after a military analysis concluded that it would take about 32 bombs of 900 kg each to blow up the complex. In addition, as described by an intelligence source, "would have created a giant crater, and we have provided no body, so it would be physically impossible to confirm the death of Bin Laden.
Until earlier this year, the Obama team did not have some certainty that bin Laden was hiding in the resort of Abbottabad, despite suspected since last summer, when monitoring the leader's trusted messenger Al Qaeda led to the building.
"He was in the complex the past five or six years and had virtually no interaction with others outside. But it seemed to be very active," said CBS Tuesday to the maximum security adviser to Obama. "We know that record video and audio. We know he was in contact with some senior members of Al Qaeda," added Brennan. "We're trying to understand what has been involved in recent years, exploit any information we are able to obtain the compound and use it to continue our efforts to destroy Al Qaeda," he concluded.
operation early Monday culminates a decade work of intelligence agencies, which for years has been flying blind. The White House has pointed out on Tuesday through his spokesman Jay Carney, after years of searching, the U.S. has realized that the terrorist organization prefers "populated areas" to "caves or small towns, as I thought when you started the fight against the organization. Bin Laden "has slipped from view for a long time successfully. It is not the only high-value target that is hidden in urban areas," he noted Carney. Panetta
admits he told Pakistan for fear that leaked details of the mission
The CIA director said in TIME Why did not coordinate with the country where Bin Laden was hiding .- Musharraf charge against U.S. press accusing his country of having protected the terrorist .- The country opened an investigation on why the terrorist located
The passing of the hours does not clear the unknowns hanging over Pakistan in the operation that ended the life of Osama bin Laden and the statements of its leaders have not only complicate the situation. President Asif Ali Zardari, who has not given any explanation to his people about the U.S. action on Pakistani soil, said in a column published by the American newspaper The Washington Post Pakistani forces were not involved in the operation and that the country's authorities were unaware that the main U.S. enemy was hiding in a mansion in Abbottabad, a little over 50 kilometers from the capital. This information was confirmed by the head of the CIA in an interview published in TIME magazine, in which Leon Panetta admits that the operation did not report on Pakistan for fear that some information was leaked. U.S.
been discussed for months to carry out coordinated the mission with several countries, including Pakistan. But the CIA dismissed this possibility because "it was decided that any effort to work with Pakistan could endanger the mission. They can alert the targets, "Panetta admits in the interview, that there was no unanimity in the team discussed this issue." What if you're in the middle of the mission and the Pakistanis have and start shooting? " , wondered some, according to Panetta. "How can you fight your way out of there?" they added.
On the contrary, powerful sources of ISI (Internal Intelligence Service), under the Chief of Pakistani Army Gen. Pervez Kayani Ashfak (who was director of the ISI to replace the Army against the dictator Pervez Musharraf at the end of 2007), highlighted their role in the assault on the home of Bin Laden: "Without our involvement, this operation would not have been a success," said the source told Reuters. "Was it possible without our help? No", asks and answers flatly. Another source of the ISI, also anonymous, but clarifies that Pakistani troops were not directly involved in the action, they do share the information with the U.S.. "President Obama alluded to this in his statement. He said that Pakistan had been an instrumental factor to share information. So much for our cooperation," the source told Reuters.
Another source said the ISI the BBC he felt "ashamed" for not having figured out before the whereabouts of Bin Laden. The source told the BBC that in 2003 reviewed the residence where he has been shot dead the leader of Al Qaeda to Abu Faraj the Libi, alleged number three in the terrorist organization. Since then, the residence "was off our radar," said the source.
"In a joint operation, supported secretly committed professionally and successfully completed," said the high commissioner of Pakistan in United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan. The diplomat stressed that the mission has cast down all the past arguments about the CIA and the ISI not cooperating there was a gap between the CIA and the ISI. "Hasan says that the action was agreed last month during a visit to Washington the director of the ISI, Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
Zardari, however, seems to apologize for not participated in the operation: "Despite the events of Sunday, there were a joint operation, a decade of cooperation between the United States and Pakistan have allowed the elimination of Osama bin Laden and prevent that continue to threaten the civilized world." And added that the terrorist "was not anywhere that we would have thought, but now it's gone."
Most of the Pakistani press criticism that the authorities know the whereabouts of Bin Laden. "Pakistan's failure to detect the presence here of the world's most wanted man is just amazing," he said in an editorial the English-language daily The News.
Zardari said in his column that is completely untrue that his country, one of the hardest hit by Al Qaeda, has been inactive or have not been able to attack the jihadis. The President regrets that many accuse Pakistan of harboring aware of the whereabouts of the leader of Islamic terrorism. "Some in the American press have suggested the lack of vitality of Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, or worse, we were protecting terrorism who made sure we were pursuing. These unfounded speculations create exciting news, but do not reflect the facts. Pakistan has as many reasons as any other nation to despise Al Qaeda, "he says.
While in Pakistan, the voices start to rise against the U.S. action." This is a disgrace to a nation of 180 million people, "said the former director of ISI, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul. "The people of Pakistan is very upset with his military to the U.S. have sold us," added Gul.
Research
But Pakistan is not willing to look bad before the international community have not been able to locate a man who lived in a mansion a few meters from the main military academy. The Pakistani ambassador in the U.S., Husain Haqqani, has announced that his country will open an investigation into the presence of the leader of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda in its territory. "We will do a full investigation to find out why our intelligence services were unable to track him earlier," Haqqani said in an interview with CNN.
Referring to statements by John Brennan, director of Terrorist President Barack Obama, who has ensured that Bin Laden had a support network in Pakistan, Haqqani has admitted this, although he qualified that this network does not come from the Administration. "I find inconceivable the idea that because there is a private support network in Pakistan, the State Government and the Pakistan military should be blamed," he insisted.
The White House debates whether to display photographs of the corpse of Bin Laden
The Government believes that showing the image of the leader of Al Qaeda may be "incendiary" .- The Taliban doubt the reliability of DNA testing
White House debates whether to publish photos and video of the body of Osama Bin Laden that they hold. Several U.S. lawmakers have asked the Executive to give them Final visual proof that the body that the soldiers fired into the ocean was the Saudi terrorist leader of Al Qaeda. Until now, the government has only said that, after the team of Navy Seal killed Bin Laden several shots, one of them in the head, took his body and buried at sea. Several members of the Government believe that the image of Bin Laden with a gunshot to the head may give fuel to the anti-Americanism in the Islamic world. Jay Carney, White House spokesman, has reinforced this idea and has said this afternoon at a press conference that the publication of the photos could be "inflammatory."
There are at least three sets of photos confirm that Washington has done with Osama Bin Laden: the operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the military hangar in Afghanistan that took the body, and the ceremony that launched the body into the ocean. "We are considering whether to publish information, details of the transaction and other material, probably those photos," said Barack Obama's adviser on terrorism, John Brennan. "We want, first, understand what kind of reaction can give rise to the publication of such information." The photos that could spread throughout the day would show, among other details, the hangar where the body was moved, reports the BBC.
Some media in the U.S., as Drudge Report assume that Obama has decided to give a pretty picture "graphic." Official sources quoted by the AP have said that in the images is Bin Laden's face deformed by a bullet a few inches above his left eye that destroyed part of the skull. The body also has bullet wounds in his chest. The same sources claim that the military recorded a video of the alleged burial at sea. Other official sources which includes CNN say that there is an image too gruesome and that publication will select the least impact.
Committee Chairman Senate Homeland Security, the independent Joe Lieberman, has asked the White House to disseminate those photos to dispel any doubt. "My gut tells me that will probably be necessary to publish these photos, but will respect whatever decision the president," Lieberman said at a news conference on Capitol Hill. "For my part, based on some information I received, I am totally convinced that the man was killed yesterday was Osama Bin Laden."
Republican Sen. Susan Collins also asked for the dissemination of these images, although he was "totally convinced" that the body was that of Bin Laden, because DNA testing had tested almost 100% coincident with samples of various family members of the terrorist. "Still, I recognize that there are those who want to create a myth that is still alive and that somehow we missed," he said, also told a news conference.
Taliban themselves, associates of al Qaeda in the Afghan war, have expressed doubts that the U.S. has really killed the Saudi terrorist in Abbottabad. Through his spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, Muslim fundamentalists have expressed doubt that the DNA tests are convincing and have requested photos. "This is news that we are only part of Obama's office, and Americans have not shown any evidence that helps confirm that information," said Mujahid in an email. "Sources close to Osama Bin Laden has not confirmed or refuted this information."
The manhunt
Who are and how active members of special operations teams, twenty-first century warriors
license to kill in the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, the fortified military base from General David Petraeus directs the operations of more than 100,000 coalition troops from 20 countries fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, as night falls surprised by the presence of a group of civilians armed to the teeth and entrenched behind dark glasses . They move with arrogance. Van tattooed. Several jeans and shirts. Some look Taliban-style beard. Several, kufiyas Palestinian. One is wearing a tribal Pashtun cap. One bears the typical Afghan pants and shirts, the salwar qameez, under which extend a pair of automatic weapons.
are part of a special operations team of U.S. military and the CIA. Are introduced quietly in unmarked SUVs equipped with sophisticated electronic warfare systems and are lost toward the mountains. This Coalition Headquarters hunters call them hair. A score of them was about to capture bin Laden in December 2001 in the mountains of Tora Bora. They escaped hours. Two years later, one of its teams stopped Saddam Hussein near Tikrit, his hometown. Yet it would take eight years to finish with the leader of Al Qaeda. On Sunday night they got it. Who are these warriors of the twenty-first century license to kill?
early morning of April 25, 1980 in an unspecified location in the Iranian desert. A column of fire rises into the sky. Heard several explosions. Kerosene flames consumed a helicopter RH-53s from the Marine Corps and a Hercules transport plane EC-130. There are eight commands charred. Thirteen other elite soldiers suffered serious burns. Impossible to Tehran. You have to abort the operation. In the race, occupy the other survivors Hercules airplane and escape. That same night, the American spy network in Iran will be dismantled. And Hostages of Ayatollah Khomeini, scattered throughout the country.
Carter's fall and the rise of Reagan
This failure of the special forces will cost Carter his re-election to the presidency in December of that year. And cause the arrival of Ronald Reagan to the White House. One of the officers who led the failed operation to free the Americans held hostage in their embassy in Tehran, then-commander Peter J. Schoomaker, thought that after this huge fiasco and the bodies of special operations or their own career could overcome the tragedy unfolding before their eyes. Ultimately, the infantry commander would be the driving force of special operations forces of the United States. I knew that would be the army of the future. All
a generation of young U.S. Army officer, Stirling, Beckwith, Shelton, Schoomaker, learn the actions of the guerrillas and terrorists. Few, well-trained and fully equipped science fiction, these officers were destined to become killing machines for the new irregular warfare. The world war against terrorism that emerged after the attacks of 11-S, would be his consecration.
A confidential manual U.S. DOD defines special operations as those carried out with conventional military means to achieve political, economic or psychological in hostile terrain. It can be done in war or beyond. For its success requires secrecy, concealment, or low visibility. differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk involved, in the way they operate, the independence of the soldier on the classic props and greater reliance on sources intelligence and indigenous forces stationed behind enemy lines. "
To put it into practice United States has a complete list of Rangers, Green Berets, Delta Force, Navy Seal and most experienced pilots flying blind. Thirty thousand men. Twenty thousand more in reserve. Directed from the Joint Special Operations Command located at Fort Bragg. Divers and parachutists. Medical campaign. A secret budget estimated at more than 5,000 million euros a year. As military equipment. Planes and helicopters capable of flying at low altitudes avoiding radar sweep, with deadly cannons, shields impenetrable and emergency fuel tanks. Ultralight boats reaching 50 knots. The best night vision goggles, laptops encrypted transmission and equipped with Internet. Absolute confidentiality of their acquisitions. Troops deployed around the world with diplomatic passports. Military training in 90 countries. Recognition behind enemy lines. Signaling laser targets to be destroyed by the air without producing side effects. Location and destruction of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Elimination of terrorists. Covert actions (which should never know the developer) in collaboration with the CIA. And any dangerous military operation that might seem preposterous.
spearhead of hosts
forces special operations are the spearhead of the new missions of the current armies. Fight against drugs in Latin America. Platforms destroy Scud missiles in Iraq. Colombian narco assassinate Pablo Escobar. Breaking the dictator Raoul Cedras in Haiti. Catching war criminals in Bosnia. Capturing Saddam Hussein. Kill Bin Laden. For a English General Lieutenant specialist in special operations "units to do everything you can not do with a conventional unit. A command has absolute autonomy.'s Own soldier who spends weeks in enemy territory away from the chain of command. No orders . Without regulations. They use similar methods to attack the terrorists. And they have that ability undermine the morale of their victims. That is its power "Soldiers
self. The basic organization of the American Green Berets are the A-Team: group of 12 men in each of its members meet a specific mission: weapons, communications, explosives, health. Each position is doubled to possible casualties in the field. Their operations last three days and three months and require a deep immersion in enemy territory. Once you locate the target and executed the action, the issue is to escape. is usually carried out by helicopter fast and heavily armed.
His great rivals, the Navy Seal, created by John F. Kennedy in 1963, are for faster targets. Closer to counterterrorism operations. Their missions lasting from three hours to three days and the infiltration of their platoons of 16 soldiers is usually done from the sea. Its composition is secret. About 2,000 men who had acted in Granada Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Panama, Haiti, Bosnia, Mogadishu, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Peter J.
Schoomaker, who was to lead as three-star general of the Joint Special Operations Command from 1994 to 1996, in those years would relate his experience as a rookie in the tragedy command to free the hostages in Iran: "That night I learned that special operations should be able to do what you say you can do. Neither more nor less. At a time of crisis, if you lied, everything can come down. I've always distrusted the male. Those drivers who said they were the best flying at night and it had only trained 15 hours a year. The fucking difference is that today I have people with 4,000 hours of flying with night vision goggles, and specialized equipment to fly at night, and a training program, and the means to carry it out. It is impossible to produce in mass commands. Each soldier is unique and irreplaceable. It is too expensive in time and money to educate a special operations professional. "
In the United States, training special forces of each service is performed in a different military base. The Rangers, Green Berets and Delta Force, at Fort Bragg. A microworld dusty barracks on the outskirts of Fayetteville (North Carolina). Thousands of hectares. Sparse vegetation. Traffic of helicopters. All kinds of military installations, including barracks impenetrable Delta Force, surrounded by two barbed wire barriers. Not to mention the Special Operations University, the JFK Special Warfare School, which are trained each year 10,000 students from around the world. It has attracted professionals from the Nicaraguan Contra paramilitary forces throughout Latin America and even English officials. Live in Fayetteville many former Vietnam veterans who call Fayettenam. It is the great temple of special operations. "Testosterone in the rough", as defined by the journalist Tom Wolfe. Six months
training commands of the Air Force are trained at Hulburt Field (Florida), the Seal of the Navy, Naval Base Coronado (California). Trained six months under extremely harsh. The training of officers is one year. Candidates are immersed in ice water until hypothermia, drag boats rubber between the breakwater and suffer torture interrogation to the brink, and become the torpedo fired from a submarine, an experience is not suitable for people with claustrophobia perfect for command by sea to reach the enemy lines. Another is the infiltration skills parachute HALO (high altitude, low opening). Jumps to 8,000 meters free fall to 600 feet above the ground to avoid detection, carried out with oxygen bottles and sometimes just to break the parachute and the death of the command.
What is so much training? According to a former English colonel and former special operations officer of CNI: "To improve their strength and emotional stability. So important is the one and the other. To think, to analyze. Have discipline and maturity. To take decisions on the fly. We do not want to be superman Lie to blows in a bar. What we want is a soldier who thinks that the bar may have problems and you should not enter. That's the key. A command is not to confront anyone. You must infiltrate, act and flee. As Mao said (along with Che Guevara, the great master of guerrilla), the flight is part of its strategy. Its activity is dispersed and decentralized. You have to exploit the vulnerabilities of the enemy. And shun the fight because it is at a disadvantage. "What are the conditions for a successful operation? According to a special operations officer of Marine:" Simplicity, security, surprise, speed and a clear purpose.
Within the first war in history irregular special forces start with an advantage. They are the tool for future military operations. As demonstrated with the elimination of bin Laden without suffering any casualties. A Soviet general who fought in Vietnam against the Americans so much in a nutshell: "In an irregular war, the conventional army if he wins, loses. However, the special operations command, the real guerrilla, if not lost, wins" . Source
newspaper "El Pais"
ADVISED U.S. NOT TO PAKISTAN because he feared that "alerting targets"
Ben Laden was not armed at the time of his death
The leader of Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, "was not armed" at the time in which the U.S. command sent to capture him he opened fire, said today the White House.
> Ben Laden's death will not alter the timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
> Obama, more popular after the death of Ben Laden
> Pakistan confirms that helped with U.S. intelligence
> Cameron: "The operation that killed Ben Laden is justified '
> The White House today could spread photo of the corpse
> Graphic: That was the mission to kill bin Laden
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In his daily briefing, the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said that Ben Laden and his family were located on the second and third floors of the residence of Abbottabad, in the vicinity Islamabad, where they were, and the leader of Al Qaeda was resistant to his capture, so he opened fire. One of his wives ran away and was shot in one of the twins. Ben Laden paths received bullets in the head and chest.
Although it had no weapons, said the White House spokesman, "is not necessary to be armed to resist." After being shot, the terrorist's body was moved to aircraft carrier Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea, where he was prepared according to Islamic customs, he washed and wrapped him in a white shroud. He was put on a heavy bag and tossed into the sea after the recitation of a prayer that a translator repeated in Arabic, said the spokesman.
White House weighs the possibility to publish photographs of the body, but so far has not taken any decision. Carney, who asked the media to be "patients", said "we are reviewing the situation and take the appropriate decision." The intelligence services do not want to make themselves known graphic material that may put jeopardize the success of future operations.
But the White House is aware of the overseas demand for these images to show the death of his enemy number one. Relatives of victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001 also have claimed, arguing that will help them turn the page. In his press conference, the spokesman said that the secret services are now studying the belongings of Ben Laden, among which were documents and several computers, for clues about Al Qaeda. U.S.
Pakistan not warned of the operation
United States did not inform Pakistan of the operation against the leader Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, because it could jeopardize the mission, said the CIA director, Leon Panetta said in an interview with Time magazine published today.
Americans feared that the Pakistanis "could alert the goals," Panetta said in the first interview after the operation that killed the leader of Al Qaeda. For months U.S.
considered a larger attack that included coordination with other countries, especially Pakistan, but ruled out the involvement of CIA ally because "any effort to work with the Pakistanis would jeopardize the mission," said Panetta .
Another plan was considered by U.S. bombing from B-52 or an attack with cruise missiles but these options were discarded due to the possibility of great "collateral damage", ie casualties among the civilian population.
Time Panetta told the deliberations during the last week among senior officials in the intelligence services until they came to "circumstantial evidence" pointing to the presence of Bin Laden in the city of Abbottabad.
among experts, Panetta found some worried that a repetition of the mistakes that led to failure in 1980, an attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran, and others who feared a repeat of what happened in Somalia in 1993, when two U.S. helicopters were shot down.
Panetta said some of his advisers wondered what would happen if a U.S. helicopter sent to the mission was shot down and, amid the incident, appeared by the Pakistani military.
But Panetta concluded that there was sufficient evidence to afford to launch the mission, and last Thursday was a meeting "crucial" in which President Barack Obama heard the arguments of his advisers.
tests remained uncertain about the presence of Bin Laden internal that would be attacked and the decision was in the hands of the president.
Panetta learned that the president had accepted the arguments of the director of the CIA last Friday, when "Obama said he authorized the mission helicopters and formalized the order with a signed letter."
A conference room with no windows, on the seventh floor of CIA headquarters in Langley (Virginia) became the command center of the mission, in direct communication with the commanders in the field and forces units Special Navy SEALS, who executed the operation.
Among those present were General William McRaven, head of Joint Special Forces Command, who repeatedly asked Panetta signifying codes and messages exchanged in communications.
"When I finally McRaven said they had found 'Jerome', the code assigned to Bin Laden-loose worldwide bated breath," said Panetta. When the helicopters attacked the premises took flight there was a unanimous applause in the hall of Langley.
Ben Laden's death will not alter the timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
The death of the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, will not alter the timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, said today the White House spokesman, Jay Carney.
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In his daily briefing, the spokesman said that plans are still to begin the withdrawal of U.S. troops in July and transferred to Afghan forces responsibility for security in certain areas.
spokesman also warned about the possibility of new attacks of the terrorist network Al Qaeda in retaliation for the disappearance of its supreme leader, saying that the group is "wounded and in pain but still alive."
About the location where Bin Laden was found in the vicinity of Islamabad and nearby area Pakistan Military Academy, Carney said Washington is in contact with Pakistan to how it was possible.
spokesman defended the role of Pakistan, a country which, he recalled, is a "key ally in the fight against terrorism." The bilateral relationship, he added, is "complicated but important."
He also warned against the impulse to reach conclusions on how it was possible that Bin Laden lived for so long in the residential complex before they find him and stressed that "we must be careful not to generalize."
Previously, Carney was known that Ben Laden was "not armed" at the time in which the U.S. command sent to capture him he opened fire.
In his daily briefing, the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said that Ben Laden and his family were located on the second and third floors of the residence of Abbottabad, near Islamabad, where they were, and the leader of Al Qaeda was resistant to his capture, so he opened fire.
One of his wives rushed to one of the members of the command and was shot in one of the twins. Ben Laden was
paths bullets in the head and chest.
Although it had no weapons, said the White House spokesman, "is not necessary to be armed to resist." Source Journal
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Direct: Bin Laden was "not armed" but showed resistance before being killed by U.S.
Who shot Osama Bin Laden?
Profile of an American elite soldier who settled the leader of Al Qaeda: a white man between 26 and 33 years
Who shot the most wanted terrorist on the planet? Osama Bin Laden ("Geronimo" in the operation of the American elite troops surprised him) was shot dead in head on his hideout in Pakistan. The "settlement" is now, and maybe forever, an unsung hero. If you came to light would become an obvious target for terrorists. A soldier with no name or face, although The Washington Post had endeavored to imagine the portrait of the man who killed the leader of Al Qaida. Using
Greitens Eric, Richard Marcinko and Stew Smith, three former Navy SEALs (Sea, Air and Land), the paper has made some clues. For example, that the unsung hero must be between 26 and 33 years, says Marcinko, founder of Team 6 SEALs' elite team now known as DEVGRU that many believe led the assault on the complex where Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad.
"It must be old enough to have passed the test required extra training to join the elite counterterrorism unit, but young enough to withstand the physical rigors of work, experts say. A white man
thing for certain is that this is a man, because there are no women in the SEALs. And there are quite likely to be white, while the American elite troops has made efforts to include minorities in their ranks.
Following the sketch of the military killed bin Laden, probably was a good athlete in high school or college, with a physical that combines strength, speed and agility. "These are called" tactical athletes, '"says Smith, who works with prospective SEALs in their training program" Tomorrow's Heroes. "
Who shot will look like a typical American elite soldier. "With a beard and look tough." In addition, it will not have been his first adventure will be featuring at least a dozen operations.
Your identity will remain secret. As were those of soldiers who participated in the arrest of Saddam Hussein. Or those of the pilots bombing that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of Al Qaida in Iraq.
"This is like playing the Super Bowl and win an Oscar in one move. He will want credit, "Marcinko says about the man who shot at Bin Laden. "But only among his colleagues."
They will know who it was. And the reward in private.
Pakistan gives medical care to relatives of Osama Bin Laden
This would be one of his wives and several children present during the attack
Pakistan's government announced yesterday that "several members" of Osama's family present during an attack on U.S. command found in official custody, and some "are undergoing medical treatment. Although not specified, it is believed that this is one of the wives of the dead terrorist leader and some of their children. 'They shall facilitate the repatriation when recovered "merely added the statement.
In the first and so far only statements to the press of a family member of Osama, one of the sisters of the dead terrorist leader, Carmen Binladin, yesterday expressed his conviction that after the death of that "there is a great feeling of sadness among the Bin Laden "one of the richest clans in Saudi Arabia.
Married to a brother of Osama and divorced years later, Carmen Binladin said in a hotel Gin, regardless of the sequence of events, the leader of Al Qaida "would have chosen death rather than respond to U.S. justice." "I always thought I should have much outside support," he added in reference to the mansion-fortress of Pakistan, the money must come from somewhere. "Carmen Binladin slightly modified its name to mark his distance from his Saudi family, after the breakdown of marriage and the establishment of residence in Europe. Years ago he wrote a book, "Inside the Kingdom", which described the difficult period of life at home more oppressive to women.
The silence of other the family after the death of Osama bin Laden is linked to the decision taken in 1994 by the regime in Riyadh Saudi nationality removing the founder of Al Qaeda, who has since described as "black sheep" of the name. Osama's father, the Yemeni-born businessman Mohamed bin Laden, had more than 20 women and at least 53 children. Emporio
expanding itself al-Qaeda leader had four wives and a number of children unknown sources estimate that between 12 and 19. At least one of them joined the Pakistani Taliban militia, have died in an attack by U.S. drones. Another, Omar, married a English in 2007 and broke with the family after proclaiming his desire to travel the world preaching peace with the West.
The empire built by the father of Osama in the Arabian Peninsula began in the interwar period, with major contracts for construction in Mecca and Medina, and now extending to many areas, from oil to telecommunications. Bin Laden's signature, one of the most important Middle East-was after the 11-S an estimated value of 5,000 million dollars a year and had about 35,000 employees. Was not affected by U.S. sanctions and is now expanded across the Middle East.
Source Journal ABC
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