Al-Qaida confirms Osama bin Laden's death, vows revenge

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Al-Qaida confirms Osama bin Laden's death, vows revenge


DUBAI: Al-Qaida confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden on Friday in an Internet message that vowed revenge on the United States and its allies, including Pakistan, according to a statement issued by the Islamist militant group.

Five days after US President Barack Obama announced bin Laden's death in a US raid in Pakistan, al-Qaida confirmed the death of its leader as a historic moment, and vowed not to deviate from the path of armed struggle.

"In a historic day for the great Islamic nation... the mujahid (holy warrior) Shiekh Abu Abdullah, Osama bin Mohammed bin Laden, God have mercy on him, was killed on the path taken by those before him and will be taken by others after him."

"Congratulations to the Islamic umma (community) for the martyrdom of its son Osama."

The global militant group, which said it will soon release an audio tape made by its leader a week before he died, vowed not to deviate from the path of armed struggle and said bin Laden's blood "is more precious to us and to every Muslim than to be wasted in vain."

"It will remain, with permission from God Almighty, a curse that hunts the Americans and their collaborators and chase them outside and inside their country," the militant network said in a statement released on Islamist Internet forums.

"Their happiness will turn into sorrow, and their blood will be mixed with their tears," al Qaeda said.

"We call upon our Muslim people in Pakistan, on whose land Sheikh Osama was killed, to rise up and revolt to cleanse this shame that has been attached to them by a clique of traitors and thieves ... and in general to cleanse their country from the filth of the Americans who spread corruption in it."

The al-Qaida statement also urged the United States to treat the bodies of Osama bin Laden and those killed with him in the raid with care, and to return their bodies.

"We warn the Americans not to harm the corpse of the sheikh or expose it to any indecent treatment or to harm any members of his family, living or dead, and to deliver the corpses to their families," it said.

"Any harm done will open the doors of evil upon you doubly, and you will not have anyone but yourselves to blame."

 

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US hits Pak with another Drone strike as sights shift to Mullah Omar

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Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar

WASHINGTON: The United States answered Pakistan's belligerent threat of ''dire consequence'' for America in the event of another violation of its sovereignty with another punitive Drone strike on Friday, as Washington's focus shifted to Mullah Omar, Al Zawahiri and other terrorists it believes are hiding in that country.

In a severe response to the Pakistani military's effort to draw a line in the sand, including warning that it would stop cooperating with US, Washington continued its pattern of bombing terrorist targets each time Islamabad voiced such defiance. Friday's strike in the Datta Khel region, which reportedly killed 12 militants, came as US lawmakers and the administration grappled with how to bring its dodgy and confrontational ally to heel.

The big development over the past few weeks is that the American military-intelligence establishment, for long a patron of Pakistan, has turned against its charge, while it is the civilian side that is trying to save Islamabad's hide. The Pentagon and CIA seem convinced of Pakistan's double game and hell-bent on exposing it and punishing it despite tactical dependence on its "ally" for the war effort in Afghanistan. Sections of the State Department and the Hill are inclined to give it the benefit of doubt because of what some believe is the country's strategic importance.

The Raymond Davis saga was being invoked again on Friday when it emerged that the CIA, with human assets on the ground, monitored for several weeks the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was staying without informing the Pakistanis – because they did not trust them. The surveillance, from a rented house nearby, involved evading Pakistani intelligence which has been trying to disrupt CIA efforts to nail terrorists – a spy vs spy drama that led to the Raymond Davis episode.

While Pakistan's military-intelligence establishment is demanding the US cut down its footprint and personnel inside Pakistan (fearing its ties to terrorists would be exposed, according to some analysts), it transpires that the intelligence assets CIA created on the ground -- since withdrawn after the job was done -- is what helped zero in on bin Laden.

Operating from of a safehouse, the surveillance team assembled a ''pattern of life'' portrait of the compound using a variety of techniques and technologies to zero in on a tall man they ended up calling the ''pacer'' because of the hour long walks he took in the compound. They could never determine with 100 per cent certainty if it was bin Laden, but gathered enough for US President Obama to order a commando operation to identify him with certainty and eliminate him.

There is now pressure on the administration to go after other key terror operators sheltered by Pakistan. ''That Bin Laden was hiding in plain sight demonstrates the complicity of the Pakistan government. Now that he has been eliminated, the question should be: Who is next?'' posed Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defence, answering, ''This is not the time for the White House to take a bow and lower the curtain on the stage. Instead, Omar should be the next to be struck down.'' Others are demanding US intensify the hunt for Ayman al Zawahiri and other terrorists.

Washington is convinced that Pakistan is sheltering Mullah Omar and his so-called Quetta Shura, not to speak of the Haqqani group, which Pakistan's army chief Ashfaq Kayani has been heard describing as a ''strategic asset.'' The big question is how much time the Americans have to zero in on them in the face of Pakistani demands that they withdraw their assets asap.

 

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hmmmm celebrating the death of an old , sick terrorist ?
Pakistan is breeding ground for thousands of such terrorist and the foolish Americans are funding these Pakistan,,,that shows that Americans create terrorist, and destroy them later,trying to become heroes - thats all


One more evidence found to declared pakistan a fail state:
Osama bin laden was killed in Pak........and if USA is fighting against terrorist ( as they say)

then USA should stop funding Pakistan .... because it proved Pakistan was sheltering Osman bin laden and the grass root for terrorist. If USA still support Pakistan then it means - its Americans are growing terrorist under the shield of Pakistan and killing so many people including the lost of their own american soldiers.

Now India must draw her lessons.
India has to fight its war on terror on her own.
everyone has to fight his/her own fight.. be it an individual or a nation...but here the story is diff,,az about pakistan,yes Its true that that place is heaven for most/all terrorists,but still india fuddu gov along with crap/bribed media wants to make "Aman ki asha" with them opening borders,allowing them to trade,giveing visa sounds like they begging to pakistan for peace and not to kill indians in any of their suicide bomb blast's...SHAME