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This is breaking news. Pres. Obama is about to make a Sunday night speech soon.
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and I wonder how they found that out. Yes, I heard about this too, and CNN is showing that Obama is going to make an announcement. -
"killed in afghanistan".......... ?Comment
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how did the US get his body i wonder? he's confirmed dead anyway.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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this has to be an ISI-CIA deal paving the way for US disengagement from Afghanistan. This might be part of the method of withdrawal. All this sounds too close together. You have the Pak-Afghan meeting, you have all these events, and then this.
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If this is the case, then none of this is credibleComment
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Sheikh Osama bin Laden Rumours
So Obama is about to address the nation regarding new developments about Sheikh Osama allegedly being killed and the US claims to have custody of his body.
Last edited by qunduz92; 05-02-2011, 12:15 AM.Comment
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Omg i was just going to make this thread!!
He's dead i was just watching the news
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The following news says he was killed in a mansion outside Islamabad.
US President Barack Obama is set to announce that Osama bin Laden is dead, according to US media reports.
The White House said Obama would make a late-night statement (US time) but did not announce the topic that he would discuss.
Officials said the statement could come as early as 10:50pm EDT (14.50pm, NZ time).
It is highly unusual that the president would make a late-night statement with not even a hint about what he would discuss.
CNN reported that Obama was expected to say the US had bin Laden's body. It said bin Laden had been killed by the US in a mansion outside Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
DNA tests are believed to have confirmed bin Laden's death, although it was not immediately clear how he had been killed.
The Saudi-born leader of al Qaeda had been hunted since a series of attacks on western targets including the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington that levelled the twin towers of the World Trade Centre and hit the Pentagon.
Watch a live stream of the President's address below:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/america...en-dead-reportComment
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okay let me guess what next. US is going to accuse pakistan govmt of harboring him and will perform a full scale military invasion of pakistan..Comment
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that doesn't make sense. CNN says Afghanistan, while Toramana's source says Pakistan....Comment
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Originally posted by qunduz92 View Post
Yup.. killed in a mansion outside Pakistan!!!!! They should and govt officials and the agency heads(ISI etc) should be their main targets... double dealing *******s.... the Pak agencies have ruined Afghanistan and the Pakhtun lands...From the creator of www.pakhtun.com and its web forum Da Pukhtano Majlas the complete Pakhtun website!!!Comment
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ok never mind they just changed it to pakistan.... what the heck?Comment
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It was unclear where how bin Laden was killed and how the U.S. captured his body. Officials have long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Mr. bin Laden was killed at a mansion outside the Pakistani capital Islamabad, CNN reported. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official told Associated Press Mr. bin Laden was killed in a ground operation in Pakistan, not by a Predator drone
The al-Qaeda leader became both the face of global terrorism and a symbol of the futile efforts to seek it out and fight it.
While his death is a victory for the anti-terror crusade by the U.S. and its allies, it's unlikely his demise will end the now-fractured network of terror cells that reaches across the world.
Counter-terror experts have noted al-Qaeda has grown into a more fragmented movement, its violent ideas having been franchised over to local allies who can operate without a central, larger-than-life figurehead leader.
“Al-Qaeda is an organization that evolved into an ideology, with Osama bin Laden's message receiving widespread attention in the Muslim world,” said Peter Bergen, one of the rare Western journalists who has met Mr. bin Laden in person.
“Clearly, the ideology will survive Osama bin Laden's death.”
Al-Qaeda has farmed out attacks to regional players in East Africa, Asia, the Caucasus and the Middle East, local radical partners it inspired and funded over the years, said Rohan Gunaratna, author of Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror.
“It will be a messy blow to the main al-Qaeda structure but the threat of terrorism will continue.”
At the same time, there are other examples of terrorist groups losing momentum after the capture of their charismatic leader.
After Turkey seized Abdullah Ocalan of the Kurdistan Workers Party, an initial wave of retaliatory attacks eventually petered and his supporters ended their armed campaign. In Peru, the arrest of Abimael Guzman Reymoso of the Shining Path decimated the violent Maoist movement.
However, one scenario that analysts fear is that Mr. bin Laden's death (jailing) will create a new martyr like Sayyid Quth, the staunchly anti-Western Egyptian writer who came up with a Koranic justification for using violence to topple secular Arab governments. His arrest, torture and execution in 1966 by the Nasser regime made him a hero and inspiration to subsequent Islamic generations of fundamentalists.
“Sayyid Quth clearly was much more important in death than in life and the same might be true of bin Laden,” Mr. Bergen said.
Mr. Gunaratna noted that al-Qaeda had already began decentralizing since August of 1998, in the wake of the crackdown triggered by the attacks that killed 223 people at two U.S. embassies in Africa.
Mr. bin Laden reached out to various associated groups, such as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiah, elsewhere in southeast Asia, the Salafi Group in Algeria and other insurgents in Indonesia and Yemen. These groups provided not only a striking capacity but also training facilities, filling in for the loss of al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan.
“These groups play an equally important role. We are seeing terrorist capability in the regional, local Islamic radical groups,” Mr. Gunaratna said.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2006299/Comment
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Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'
Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'
Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list
Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden is dead, according to US officials.
The US is in possession of Bin Laden's body, the reports say. President Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly.
Bin Laden is top of the US most wanted list.
He is accused of being behind a number of atrocities, including the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.
The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a ground operation in a mansion outside Islamabad in an operation based on actionable US intelligence, CNN reported.
Crowds gathered outside the White House in Washington DC, chanting "USA, USA" after the news emerged.Comment
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