The clues that led to Osama
. A confidant of Osama was discovered by Pakistani
services. Obama decided that the operation was on land and not through bombing
. The CIA director, Leon Panetta, followed by the whole operation
video . For months, she oversaw the complex where the terrorist was
For 10 years the search for the 'enemy No. 1' of the West had always empty-handed. Or Osama bin Laden escaped before completing the operation against it, or clues that led to it were unsuccessful, according to the American newspaper The New York Times.
However, in July 2010 a group of Pakistanis who worked for the country's intelligence services said a number of plates while doing surveillance work in a busy district of Peshawar. Then a white Suzuki caught their attention.
Man Asia driving the car would be the track that led to the death Monday of the most wanted terrorist. It was one of the messengers and trusted men of Bin Laden. During the next month, CIA agents followed him and came to an extensive and secure complex in a village located 50 kilometers from the capital.
was not the cave hidden in the mountains in which many thought he was. Rather, it was a three-story house surrounded by concrete walls 12 meters high, topped with barbed wire and guarded by two security fences. [View pictures of the fort]
for weeks last fall, taking spy satellites detailed pictures and worked to collect all communications from the house. It was not easy: the complex had no phone line or Internet connection. Those inside were so concerned about her safety even burned away inside to avoid having to leave.
Eight months later, on a moonless night that could reveal the position of U.S. Special Forces, four helicopters landed in the compound and after a shooting five people were killed, including the leader of Al Qaeda and U.S. goal since the attacks 11-S terrorists that killed over 3,000 people. 'Operation Geronimo' was over Osama bin Laden. U.S. consumed his revenge.
The command covered the distance that separates the house from the U.S. base in Jalalabad, just across the Afghan border and within hours, long enough for the Pakistani authorities were not aware of the outbreak in its territory The dangerous mission was performed. How
identified Osama?
A member of the SEALs captured the image of the terrorist shot dead after being shot in his left eye, which is then sent to Washington to confirm that he was dead. Serve to photograph after one of the women identified him terrorist. Facial recognition software also established that the image was Bin Laden with a certainty of 95%. Later, DNA tests established that compared with relatives he was 99%.
The SEALS found Bin Laden on the third floor of the house dressed in a flowing robe. However, details about the last moments of Bin Laden have been very few.
The operation was the culmination of years of hard work by the Intelligence Community, including CIA interrogations of prisoners of the controversial secret prisons in Eastern Europe.
Intelligence agencies reviewed emails and phone calls from the 'close' Bin Laden. Accurately studied satellite images of the complex where the terrorist was to establish a 'pattern of life' of Osama. Everything was tied to the smallest detail so that the operation was dangerous and at least as safe as possible.
During the decade it took to end with bin Laden, the terrorist was able to dodge the new technologies that might have revealed where he was. The leader of Al Qaeda has always believed that modern technology was a double-edged sword and therefore never used mobile phone or other technological device.
By contrast, the U.S. technology did play a key role in the location and death of terrorist leader. Technology had the National Security Agency, which has satellites that can eavesdrop, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which can generate maps of buildings and land satellite and other technology.
However, the operation was not to everyone's liking. Many in Washington had their doubts about whether Osama was there or whether the transaction would create a risk for special forces.
Finally, it was the U.S. president, Barack Obama, who took the blow on the table and set out to capture. Decided that the mission would be through a bombing, but preferred Melee it was for the body of the terrorist not buried in the rubble of the house. Then planned with four helicopters. And the other two would land cover them.
CIA director, Leon Panetta and other officials monitored the assault that followed in great detail from the seventh floor of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. When they saw the bloodied face of Bin Laden the room erupted with joy.
U.S., the day after: between unity and fear of reprisals
revive the country since yesterday the spirit of unity that emerged after the attacks of 11-S
Barack Obama fraternity calls for 'meet the challenges we face'
The threat that Al Qaeda act to avenge their leader behind world leaders
The tragedy sparked the United States on September 11, 2001. Two planes piloted by al Qaeda terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers in New York and opened a period of pain that closed, in part, on Monday with the death of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the slaughter.
On May 2, 2011, almost ten years later, the world woke up with the announcement that the U.S. had ended the life of the leader of Al Qaeda. Thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate the new and revived the spirit of unity that helped them a decade ago to overcome the pain.
waved flags at all buildings, repeated patriotic slogans on banners and posters and 'God Bless America "became the soundtrack to a night that many Americans do not forget. "It's exciting that a man who has perpetrated such violence can not go on doing it," said one of the testimonies collected by Pablo Pardo near the White House.
But many citizens who cried Monday night justice for bin Laden are aware that their disappearance is not only close a black chapter in American history, but also the beginning of a new era marked by uncertainty. Uncertainty about a threat whose dimensions are unknown.
U.S. President Barack Obama, said in a brief speech tonight that people "experience the same feeling of unity that prevailed after the September 11 attacks" and called on the union "to confront the many challenges that still face" .
But what do you mean Barack Obama? What faces the United States after the death of Bin Laden? What confronts the world? The unknown threat
Uncertainty marks the general feeling on the day after the death of the world's most wanted terrorist, the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
The Taliban have brought to their targets: the Pakistani political leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistan army and U.S. facilities in Asian countries.
Not surprisingly, the threat has passed and the facts were made public hours after the death of Bin Laden, a bomb exploded near a mosque in northern Pakistan, killing one woman and three children.
However, the big question stops in Al Qaeda. The terrorist organization has not yet been expressed about the death of its founder and leader spiritual, while speculating that the dissemination of a video of Bin Laden in farewell.
Your future is supported by a world-branched structure that allows you to have cells in almost all countries. The U.S. operation has left 'head' to the organization, but the rest of the system continues to operate independently and the risk for any of his arms back to act is now one of the greatest threats to the leaders of all world.
Obama said it best in his appearance: "It's not the end." And in this trial match many analysts around the world. "Al Qaeda is now stronger than when he committed the attacks of 11-S" Leah says Farrall, a leading expert in jihadist terrorism in Foreign Affairs magazine in its March-April.
"It's not the end. We must act relentlessly, harangued the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Along the same lines, Angela Merkel warned that "we must keep on alert."
For now, America is the only country that has taken a solid step, to put its embassies on high alert for fear of reprisals.
"Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation, we strongly recommend to people who are in areas where violence may occur near misses against the United States who do not leave their homes and hotels and avoid public gatherings and demonstrations, "said the travel warning issued earlier on Monday.
Everything indicates that the disappearance of Osama bin Laden is not a fatal blow to Al Qaeda or the Islamic terrorism that without their leader and amid a climate of political unrest in Arab countries, faces an uncertain future for them too.
'Can you imagine what's on the hard drive of Osama Bin Laden? "
command of the U.S. Navy that ended the life of Osama bin Laden was able to be made during the raid with a lot of computer equipment and hard drives belonging to the head of Al Qaeda, today unveiled the website Politico.
U.S. intelligence services are reviewing these external hard drives and in a secret location in Afghanistan, from where they launched the operation that led to the death of Bin Laden, after ten years of research and considered the most dangerous terrorist in the world.
These officials said that "hundreds of people are now reviewing the data seized."
"It will be very important, even though only 10% was processed (...) I cleaned up. Can you imagine what's on the hard drive of Osama Bin Laden?" They added.
The operation was performed by a small group of soldiers from the Special Operations Force Navy (SEALS) in a complex valued at one million dollars in Abbottabad, near Islamabad, and was completed in about 38 minutes. Source
newspaper "El Mundo"
Bin Laden's death sparks global alert
The physical disappearance of the leader of Al Qaeda, responsible for the 11-S, has been greeted with euphoria in the West but also with caution, fearing that a campaign of attacks in revenge
Bin Laden's death at the hands of an elite commando team from the U.S., announced on television by Barack Obama has opened a new dimension in the fight against international terrorism. The physical disappearance of the leader of Al Qaeda, responsible for the 11-S, has been greeted with euphoria in the West but also with caution, fearing that his followers began a campaign of attacks in revenge. That possibility has sparked a global alert and has led governments of the USA and Europe to strengthen the security of both its embassies and its troops abroad and to ask its citizens, especially those who are abroad show the utmost caution. "The war against Al Qaeda and its union of terror is not over," warned the head of U.S. diplomacy, Hillary Clinton.
English President José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, today called for a meeting with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense to explore new measures of prevention. "They can not rule out reprisals", said yesterday the vice president Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, despite which the government has raised by far the alert level of its forces and security forces.
Reactions death of this character can cause unpredictable world. By the way, Obama insisted yesterday that bin Laden was not a Muslim leader in the United States is at war against the religion. "Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation," said the State Department, "we urge U.S. citizens in areas where these events can cause anti-American violence to limit their travel outside their homes and hotels and to avoid mass rallies and demonstrations. "
However, joy at the death of the world's most wanted terrorist is obvious. U.S. feel that revenge for the 11-S has been accomplished and the proof is that the Ground Zero in New York, main stage of the slaughter, has become the venue since the news broke. This Thursday will Obama also, to meet there with relatives of the victims. "We are experiencing the same drive after the 11-S", the president said last night a dinner with members of Congress.
A great day for America
Issued for many years, studied at millimeter in recent months, an operation by U.S. special forces elite Navy Seals on Sunday ended the life of the leader of Al Qaeda. This was announced at around half past eleven pm (half past five in the morning on Monday in Spain) U.S. President, Barack Obama. The agents shot dead the leader of Al Qaeda in the town of Abottabad, 80 kilometers from Islamabad in northern Pakistan in a speech in which there were no U.S. casualties. In his second appearance since it developed operation, in a tribute yesterday to two soldiers killed in the Korean War, Obama said: "It'sa great day for America, the world is safer and better because of the death of Osama Bin Laden."
"We all agree that it is a good day for America," Obama said during the tribute. The president said the operation shows that "there is nothing you can do" if the United States working in coordination. "We are fortunate to have citizens who have dedicated their lives to protect (...) As commander in chief, could not be more proud," applauded Obama, specially commended the military and intelligence officials who organized and carried out the operation, including outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
security adviser in the White House, John Brennan, explained later in a press conference from Washington that the operation, followed in "real time" from the U.S., was conducted without informing Pakistan, an ally in the war against terrorism, something which has confirmed this morning the president Zardari. Brennan said it is "inconceivable" that Bin Laden has been hiding in Pakistan so long without help from within the country. "I will not speculate on the support in Pakistan," Brennan said to reporters regarding the possible knowledge of Pakistani authorities the location of the Saudi terrorist. After his remarks, Ambassador of Pakistan in the U.S., Husain Haqqani, said last night that his country will conduct a "thorough investigation" to gather intelligence failures that prevented know that Osama bin Laden was in their territory.
The White House adviser called Obama's decision as "one of the bravest I have ever taken any president." According to Brennan, the evidence on bin Laden's stay in the house were "circumstantial", but the CIA's confidence in hitting the target was "growing." The U.S. advisor also said that after 15 years of pursuit, and even before the 11-S, Obama took the "opportunity" and approved the transaction. Sepultura
according to Islamic rite
Brennan further clarified that the leader of Al Qaeda has been buried at sea in accordance with Muslim practice. The Islamic ritual requires the body be buried within 24 hours after his death. According to official sources, the decision was made because it was difficult to find a country willing to bury the world's most wanted terrorist. Official sources have also reported that DNA tests confirm that died in the military attack on the residence where he was.
Asked by reporters accredited White House, Brennan added that the U.S. "will not drop our guard" in the fight against Al Qaeda. The death of his mentor, Osama bin Laden, offers "an opportunity to destroy the organization," said Brennan. The security adviser also said that the number two of the terrorist network, the Egyptian doctor Ayman al Zawahiri, has "detractors" within the organization, making them harder to lead.
The military operation, carried aboard helicopters in the special operations group of Navy Seals, killing four people: an adult child of the terrorist, his messenger, and a brother of this and a woman who, according to the White House, was a of Bin Laden's wives. Government sources in Pakistan have assured the BBC's service in the country during the assault on bin Laden five guards also fell and four more have been arrested but could not be confirmed.
A residential complex
The Washington's most wanted terrorist was inside a fortified luxury resort. The residence of Abottabad walls consisted of over three meters, barbed wire and only two entrances. There were no windows and had no dial or Internet connection. Bin Laden was shot in the head after a shootout between U.S. forces assault and the group who was with the leader Al Qaeda.
In his first speech from the White House, Obama said that, having been receiving since August reliable intelligence information about where Bin Laden was last week ordered the Sunday attack and a "small group" U.S. led the operation, in which, after an exchange of fire, took the body of the terrorist. In an appearance full of drama, Obama paid tribute to all victims of the attack of September 11, 2001 against the Twin Towers, which left nearly 3,000 dead. "Tonight, justice has been done," he said. The President thanked all those who participated in the operation and those who have helped over the years to pursue the terrorist. "The U.S. has launched an unequivocal message: no matter how long it takes, it will," concluded the president.
The day after the death of Bin Laden, the United States invaded woke up in the euphoria, but Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said "the U.S. will continue its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan." "This is a milestone in the fight against terrorism, but the battle against Al Qaeda continues, and will not end with the death of Bin Laden," he said. Secretary of State partly attributed the success of the military operation that ended with the death of terrorist leader the 'closely' States States' Pakistan. In addition, Clinton recalled that there were not only attacks on America but also in London, Madrid, Bali, Istanbul and many other parts were innocent, mostly Muslims, attacked in markets and mosques, train stations and on aircraft " .
10 years after the 11 S
The death of the father of international Islamic terrorism comes almost 10 years after the attacks in New York. Eliminate Osama bin Laden had become an obsession for the United States and had been subjected to numerous international operations. It was speculated on several occasions with his death and offered millions reward for any clue to his whereabouts, but bin Laden was there, present in the nightmares of Washington.
For U.S. pride was a wound too deep knowing the whereabouts of a tall, lanky 54-year, usually portrayed holding a Kalashnikov in his left arm. Almost an old man leaning on a cane, he slept on the floor of a cave and ate vegetables, yogurt, soup and bread Afghanistan.
Although three years did not appear in public, Bin Laden was still a symbol. The man who had accomplished what a decade ago seemed a chimera internationalize jihad and spread terror through partnerships partner groups around the world. Dozens of local cells, inspired by Bin Laden's speech, torment intelligence chiefs from several continents.
"I'm here to become a witness of history. My boyfriend will be sent overseas with the Marines next week. That's why I'm so proud of what has made our Army", had elated at the gates of the House Vogler Laura White, a student at American University in Washington. The celebrations for the death of Bin Laden were taken near the White House.
Shortly before eleven in the local night, the television broadcast was interrupted to advance the president was going to appear with an announcement on vital national security. Speculation erupted and within minutes some media unofficially announced the death of the terrorist. By this time the Americans began to go out. Soon Washington, New York and major cities were filled with spontaneous displays of joy.
Ground Zero in Manhattan, where the two towers were erected that brought down Al Qaeda, became one of the most popular. Tourists, members of the fire (over 300 of them died in the rescue efforts after the attacks) and New Yorkers of all stripes crowded close to the screens of Times Square since it appeared First rumors of the news. The concentration was crowded after the announcement.
Many of the reactions have been very tough. "I had dreamed of this moment, but I think death is too good for him," said Anne Marie from Borcherdng, who lost her boyfriend 11-S in the Twin Towers. "What we would like many people here today is to have to spit on his corpse."
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, was among the first to react to the White House announcement: "New Yorkers have waited almost 10 years this news." The death of Osama bin Laden is a major victory and a tribute to that struggling Spain " added. New York Senator Charles Schumer said: "The heart of New Yorkers still broken by the tragedy of 11-S, but [the death of Osama bin Laden] provides some comfort to the victims." Reactions
worldwide
The U.S. president George W. Bush said a few minutes after the news that the death of Osama bin Laden is a "victory for America." Bush, under whose presidency witnessed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and in his memoirs stated that one of his biggest regrets was that of failing to capture bin Laden "dead or alive", issued through its Facebook page, just knowing the news, a statement said that President Barack Obama told the operation. "Tonight the president called me to inform Obama that U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001," said Bush.
Bill Clinton also reacted quickly to the news. The U.S. president has ensured that Bin Laden's death is a moment "profoundly important" for people around the world looking for a "common future of peace and freedom."
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has assured that it is "a great relief to the world." "Bin Laden is responsible for the worst terrorist atrocities the world has seen, many of which have killed thousands of people, many of whom are British, "Cameron discussed. In the same vein, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netahyahu, said that Bin Laden's death is "a resounding victory for the democratic nations that fight terror." The English Government has welcomed to Washington by the success of the antiterrorist operation.
Father of international jihadism
The core of Bin Laden was thought similar to the Taliban: ultra-orthodox interpretation of Sunni Islam, who want to purify Western influences. His ideology, his men, seasoned equity combat, and abundant money allowed him to finance a dark plot by radical groups that act against Western interests, mainly U.S., where they have opportunity. Osama bin Laden
born in Saudi Arabia in 1957 in a wealthy Saudi family. His father was a major construction magnate in the country. He studied religion and economics, graduating from the University Abdul Aziz. Since 1979 supported the Afghan rebels in their war against the USSR, organizing the recruitment of thousands of volunteers across the Arab world, among other actions. Since 1986, personally involved in the fighting. After the war, he returned home. As a result of Saudi support for U.S. troops during the 1991 Gulf War, broke with the Saudi regime and his own family. He went into exile in 1991 in Sudan, where he directed a U.S. company considered a terrorist front. With the unprecedented
planning the attacks of 11-S, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda firmly shook the foundations on which the United States based its policy on security and demonstrated the need to seek a new approach to strengthen its borders. Almost immediately, the U.S. launched a series of air strikes against the Taliban in the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Given the refusal of the Taliban to surrender the terrorist, the U.S. began in October 2001 war in Afghanistan continues, but allowed the attacks to overthrow the fundamentalist regime that ruled the country.
After his experience in the Afghan war, Bin Laden has learned to live like a hermit, a skill that helped him blend in on the ground in the same way as do snakes. Again and again the leader of Al Qaeda managed to emerge unscathed from sneak attacks by U.S. and international partners, which led to compromising the ability of military intelligence and the most powerful country in the world. Since Bin Laden trail gone definitely in the mountains Tora Bora in the winter of 2001 after the U.S. deposed by force of arms to the Taliban, there was only one certainty: he was hiding in Pakistan. The intelligence community has shuffled many assumptions: that was in a remote region or confused with the mass in Karachi, which could only be killed by treachery in their own communities or with a missile attack, but clearly had shifted the neighboring country of Afghanistan.
For years, unmanned aircraft equipped with missiles have flown to different tribal areas of Pakistan the most dangerous and volatile place on earth. Have killed dozens of militants from Al Qaeda, also civilians, and have come very close to their leaders, especially the Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahri, but in the end has been a command group which has closed part of the story.
Abbottabad, where bin Laden went unnoticed
The city where the U.S. has killed the leader of Al Qaeda is a sleepy village, with no resources and a gateway to the most mountainous areas of Pakistan
Edgar Allan Poe
showed in his story "The Purloined Letter the subject of a criminal offense could be in front of the noses of the police and that they did not realize. That has happened to Osama Bin Laden and Abbottabad, a city that at first glance nothing bad could happen. Abbottabad "Abbott City", which the British commander named James Abbott, who founded the city in mid-nineteenth century, was a gray target, bucolic, bland, which was mixed and conservative middle-class background that a city average of 150,000 inhabitants is home to a military academy and stale status as the gateway to the wildest areas, mountainous and inaccessible areas of the North-West Frontier Province (North-West Frontier Province, NWFP), located between Afghanistan, Kashmir China and a stone's throw away. Alfredo
Goblet The photographer and I visited this area of \u200b\u200bthe country in late 2006 when we conducted an interview to El Pais Weekly the sources of fundamentalism in Pakistan. Never anticipated that Bin Laden was so close. Abbottabad town I remember as a blank, sleepy, surrounded by forests and where there was everything from water to electricity. With miserable stalls at the edge of the road without lights through the streets at night, full of cracked official buildings painted in shades of cream and scattered gigantic luxury villas. Abbottabad memory with few women in the streets and burka-clad, with monuments such nonsense as marble herd of horses that informed us we were at 1,500 feet, I remember Abbottabad full of military uniforms of the British legacy and headgear with inevitable Punjabi mustaches; the terrible road that linked the city to Islamabad, less than 60 miles away, in which the continuous traffic of trucks decorated as sideshow attractions torture made the trip too dangerous. I remember the hills covered with cannabis plants as far as the eye, very small girls veiled up to their eyeballs in Rising Star School, children as well uniformed black funeral singing patriotic songs while the glorious flag was hoisted Pakistani before the eyes of teachers and attitudes military garb. Everything in this peculiar theocracy which he joined Pakistan since independence in 1948 the generals and the mullahs and gave birth to thousands of madrasas to destabilize the planet.
Abbottabad hotels were poor, dirty and shabby, lined with wood, reminiscent of mountain lodges stuck in a ghost town. In each of them a soldier standing guard. I asked for one reason: "There are individual terrorists here," he said. In restaurants, alternating meat with grilled pizzas for the few tourists and international donors. Of course, not a drop of alcohol. Do not forget that this area of \u200b\u200bthe country governs the MMA (Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal), a militant coalition of religious parties, which have ended with music, movies, alcoholic beverages and have enormous legal restrictions on the role of women throughout the region.
Someone told us that this area and beyond, in Mansehra, and the Kashmir border, a hundred miles, had been in place until mid 2000 more than 60 training camps for jihadists from around the world and willing to fight in Kashmir and Afghanistan. We saw ruins of the same near Mansehra and Balakot loss, near Kashmir. The 2005 earthquake had destroyed many others had ceased to exist after the attacks of 11-S which forced the Pakistani army to take cosmetic measures. However, it was still possible to cross this lost territory around the Siran valley and the river Kunhar, old pickup trucks loaded with young men barbados, wearing camouflage clothing and weapons. Nobody knew where he came from or where it went. Instead, it could see not a single soldier or police in the area. Asked one of these young people if bin Laden was hiding in the region. He replied: "Just ask the CIA, is not working for them?"
Osama was right under the noses of the police and no one seemed to notice. Today, however, the shelter does not seem so outlandish Abbottabad. For starters it was a military city. And do not forget that the Pakistani military and its powerful intelligence service, the ISI (Islamic State in the Islamic state), have always been his mentors, funders and partners. On the other, this lost city is in a perfect triangle for the strategy of Bin Laden and his organization. Halfway in Islamabad and Rawalpindi (the two centers of military power in the country, the ISI, and powerful organizations close to Al Qaeda, as the Red Mosque led by Abdul Rashid Ghazi, killed by security forces). Second, is less than 200 miles from Peshawar, the capital of NWFP, the lawless city of international jihadism between Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Khyber pass dangerous, where you can get a Kalashnikov AK-47 for a hundred dollars, and a similar distance from the disputed region of Kashmir, one of the hottest spots on the planet and where Pakistan and India, two nuclear powers, faced by people brought in a war never declared or terminated. In Kashmir ended many of the men of Bin Laden after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Abbottabad. The city with an air of mountain resort for the bourgeoisie Pakistani officials for their British heritage, was the right place at the right time for Osama go unnoticed. Nobody seemed to notice.
Pakistan's president says his country was not involved in the operation
Zardari
charge against U.S. press accusing his country of having protected Bin Laden .- The country opened an investigation on why the terrorist
located
military forces attacked the Osama Bin Laden hiding in Pakistan, ending his life, with the participation of Pakistani forces, it has assured the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari, in an opinion column published by the Washington Post. An article that also ensures that the country's authorities were unaware that the main enemy of the United States, which was being sought for 10 years, was hiding in a mansion located in Abottabad, near Islamabad.
"There was nowhere that we would have thought, but now he's gone," wrote Zardari. "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 so continue to avoid threatening the civilized world."
The Pakistani leader also says in his letter that is completely untrue that his country, one of the hardest hit by Al Qaeda, has been inactive or have not been able to defeat the jihadist activists. In fact Zardari 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 the terrorism that 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, why the leader said they would be in the same war against terrorism in the U.S. Is . Research
a sign that Pakistan is not willing of losing face before the international community by not being able to locate a man who lived in a mansion in a residential complex located about two hours from the capital has been the announcement this morning by the Pakistani ambassador in the United States. 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 Terrorism United States 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 incredible 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 same lines, explained that the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI, had no authority to raid a private property, in which Bin Laden was hiding. "You can not do that in Pakistan, where many larger houses and smaller than others. You can not go for what would have happened if he had intervened Intelligence? "raised Haqqani, recalling that the Pakistani authorities were strongly criticized the arrest of Khalid Mohamed, director of operations for Al Qaeda propaganda involved in the 11 - S, which occurred in March 2003 Rawalpini.
Source newspaper "El Pais"
The most wanted terrorist was surrounded by Pakistani military
The million-dollar shelter
The city of Abbottabad, where Ben Laden had found what would be his last refuge, takes its name from an Englishman, James Abbott, manager of one of the military posts that lined the mountain road to the Kyber pass and Afghanistan.
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Home of the British regiments that left the skin in the long Afghan war since 1853, the cantonment was growing in space and, above all, comfort. Abbott recreated a portion of the English countryside with its villas for officers and their families, golf and cricket fields, gardens and stands where military bands gave concerts. And, of course, an impressive church steeple.
The mild climate, classic mid-mountain valleys, the purity and abundance of rivers and the relative proximity to the capital, Islamabad, become the old British military cantonment in an ideal location for the capital's affluent spend the hot summer months. Multiplied villas, hotels, shops, expensive schools, built a large teaching hospital, expanded the golf course and polo and the Christian church was joined by a beautiful mosque. Abbottabad But he never lost sight of its origins: it is the headquarters of the Military Academy of Pakistan Army, quartering of several brigades of Infantry and strategic communications center.
And there, in the heart of the "military intelligence" Pakistan was to find their shelter the most wanted terrorist in the history of the world. There was, has now been a very quiet house, anything that might go unnoticed to the postman's curiosity.
Built in 2005 at a cost of one million dollars, rose above an area of \u200b\u200b3,000 square meters, protected by a concrete wall 5 meters high, crowned with barbed wire.
Two security gates, electrified, gave access to the interior. The house itself has three floors, 200 square meters each, comfortable but not excessive luxuries. He saw clearly that tenants seeking "privacy": few exterior windows, a wall of 2 meters high to protect the terrace, no phone or internet. Although strange, a large satellite dish crowned the roof. And all within 200 meters from the military academy and a firing range.
is not surprising that in Washington now wonder whether the presence of the terrorist who murdered thousands of his compatriots in the "Baden Baden" was totally unknown Pakistani secret service of its ally.
Yesterday I spoke with great clarity the chairman of the Armed Forces Committee in the Senate, Democrat Carl Levin: "The armed forces and Pakistani intelligence services have to answer lots of questions, given the location, the period time and the apparent fact that this residence was built expressly Ben Laden, and its proximity to the headquarters of Pakistan Army. " Mistrust that existed between Washington and Islamabad, given the fact that U.S. intervention was made without knowledge of the Pakistanis.
Obama, wanted to save face for his ally, but the paraphrase is not his forte. "It is important to note that our cooperation against terrorism with Pakistan led us to Ben Laden and the complex where he was hiding," the U.S. president said yesterday, without giving details. And from the other hand, prefer not to delve into the wound and, thus, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, asked yesterday to respect the different "sensitivities" of his country. Above all, the Taliban.
Pakistani Officials say the operation was in fact a joint mission to Pakistan and the United States. "Without our involvement, this operation would not have been a success," riveted the source quoted by Reuters, that does not reveal his identity. "Was it possible without our help? (...) There was a joint intelligence operation, "said another Pakistani security source.
The Judas of Ben Laden
After nearly four years of work, which began when the CIA began to keep track of one of the people who formed the inner circle Ben Laden, specifically one of its "e", the research paid off. The track emerged from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was submitted, considered the mastermind of the attacks of 11-S and one of the closest associates of bin Laden. The CIA obtained similar information of the successor of Mohammed, Abul Faraj al Libi. Both were the subject of controversial interrogation techniques applied by the Bush Administration, in prisons located outside the country, particularly in Poland and Romania. The tip was confirmed last August.
His last appearance in his last video released on January 21, Osama bin Laden threatened in an audiotape to kill French hostages being kidnapped by his group, if the soldiers of this country will not withdraw from Afghanistan. "Our message to you yesterday and today is the same, is that your release of hostages from the hands of our brothers is conditional upon your soldiers out of our country," he warned the terrorist on the tape and aired on whose authenticity could not be verified. He stated that the French presence in Afghanistan is a "political act and a terrorist."
A resident of Abbottabad was online auctioneer
The "minute" of the operation, through Twitter
If someone have any doubt of the importance today of social networks, just take a look at the past 12 hours on Twitter and Facebook forth and multiplied exponentially around the world announcing the death of Osama Ben Laden.
A resident of Abbottabad was online auctioneer
The "minute" of the operation, through Twitter
If anyone has any doubt about the importance today of social networks, just take a look at the last 12 hours on Twitter and Facebook forth and multiplied exponentially around the world announcing the death of Osama Ben Laden.
U.S. closed its diplomatic offices Pakistan
U.S. today ordered closure "until further order" of its embassy and consulates in Pakistan, announced the embassy spokesman in Islamabad, a day after the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of Marines .
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Bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces in a complex that served as a hideout in the city of Abbottabad, situated less than a hundred kilometers north of Islamabad. After the operation against the leader of Al Qaeda, security has been redoubled in the country, given the threat of the Pakistani Taliban-TTP in its acronym in urdu " to avenge the death of Bin Laden.
Pakistani officials insisted in his few public statements yesterday that the attack on Bin Laden's home was conducted by U.S. forces, a move that some analysts interpreted as a way of deflecting the wrath of the insurgents to the U.S.. U.S. diplomatic offices will be closed for "routine business", especially the processing of visas, but embassy and consulates are kept open for emergency procedures and other U.S. citizens.
addition to its embassy in Islamabad, the U.S. has consulates in the cities of Peshawar (northwestern), Lahore (east) and Karachi (South). Source Journal
"THE REASON"
U.S. lies and stands proud with many questions
Many New Yorkers avoided so far closer to the "ground zero" and yesterday thousands of people stayed there until dawn. However, the fear of further attacks remains latent
When the first social networks, television and finally after Barack Obama himself confirmed around midnight Sunday that the rumors were true, America exploded with joy: the White House surrounded by people singing the American anthem, Times Square and Ground Zero in New York taken until dawn, with people rising to the street lamps, etc. But among those who lost loved ones or suffer consequences as a result of the attacks the joy was mixed with the seriousness and punishment. Even with some fear: evaded even alarm about terrorism and the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, not making speeches saying that the morale of the city "is stronger than ever," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly , admits that he has strengthened the security levels.
Otherwise the city retains more scars of that attack those seen with the naked eye. While tourists are flocking en masse to Ground Zero, many New Yorkers avoided. Try not to go out there and see even more when painful delay in repopulate the devastated urban area extends further agony. The sense of loss.
why it was so extraordinary that thousands of people flocked to Ground Zero on the news and in several cases remain there until dawn. Some carried portraits of their parents, boyfriends, brothers, sons, and shook with tears which melted the content and form gently unquenchable despair. Others waved American flags. Couples taking the hand of children born shortly after the attacks.
A group is particularly sad for those who worked in the rescue work as professionals or as volunteers and in many cases have contracted diseases due to health risks were not warned in time, and have found a mixed response from the authorities. Until a few months either Republicans and Democrats have been engaged in a shameful brawl Congress by the amount of compensation. But this time they were even happier. "There are good days and bad days, but on hearing the news today I felt like I removed part of this great weight lifted," he told NY1 Villamia Denise, one of those affected. But on Monday morning demonstrations of joy and had been reduced to a minimum in New York, or had been absorbed by the fast pace of the city. The procession turned to go inside.
least because America had slept very proud of herself and stood up with many questions unanswered. Although not cease to bring out details of the operation on Sunday, the faces of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton live contemplating the operation, immortalized by the official photographer for the White House, testify to the oil that had to be what they were seeing- remain many unknowns that may take months or years to clear.
For example it is reported that the strength of Abbottabad was found plenty of documentation that could lead to the capture of other significant elements of Al Qaida and Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri, the alleged number two in the organization, which is believed to be hiding in Pakistan also. Less charismatic than Bin Laden, however it is considered more intellectual, more responsible for their doctrine, but his lack of combat experience might be a handicap when it comes to fill the gap of the famous Saudi terrorist.
One possibility is that Bin Laden's death is followed by a hydra effect, the emergence of new heads thousand. Speaking to ABC, Christopher Dickey, head of the Office of Newsweek's Middle East and security and terrorism specialist, predicts that now "all aspiring to emulate Bin Laden is going to try something against Western targets, and if successful, or about, say it is going avenge "and happened to inherit his leadership, as saying. But Dickey is very skeptical about the chances of different candidates in the running: "Awlaki in Yemen or Pakistan Ilyas Kashmiri and others have been trying for years and the results are not what they say impressive."
Is it possible then that the death of Bin Laden may show a bulky internal weakness of the organization, until now hidden by the formidable paralyzing effect of terror? According to Dickey, "If Tunisia and Egypt and a handful of other countries that are experiencing the Arab spring remain on the path of democracy within a year, this may be the beginning of the end of Al Qaida and ideological strength. "
Free from Al Qaeda in a year? "Even before the 2012 presidential election? At a dinner on Monday night with members of Congress from both parties, Barack Obama returned to referring to Bin Laden's death by invoking the spirit of unity that after the 11-S brother to all Americans regardless of status or ideas, and all with all people of good will in the world. "I know this unit has been eroded somewhat over the years," admitted Obama, while expressing the wish that at times like this again to meet "the great American family." The president appreciated the services rendered by the heroes who developed this incredibly dangerous mission "and also had words of gratitude to the members of both parties," without whose extraordinary support, could not have done this. "
An elite force which was created to Vietnam
SEALs have scored a brilliant success in his service record
SEALs (Sea, Air and Land) have scored a brilliant success in his service dating back to 1962 when they started to act under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy. This elite force of the United States Navy was created in the late 50's, before the need for highly specialized military could operate in any environment and under very demanding. This happened in the Vietnam War, his first assignment, which required the participation of a new type of force further away from the traditional fighting structure.
This elite corps consists of a highly trained military, in fact, the selection and training course is considered one of the hardest, along with the British SAS. Members of the SEALs have a great training communication, infiltration techniques and explosives, and their performances are characterized by a "high cost", according to ABC sources have told military. In addition, his performance is supported by an important earlier work of intelligence.
After the Vietnam War, origins of their creation, important actions have been involved in the rescue of ship Aquile Lauro, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, in the battle of Mogadishu was fought in Somalia in the Gulf War and invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Source
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