Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the
U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan
show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.
The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the
compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed
in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood
streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
OSAMA bin Laden
is dead. He was killed in a fire fight in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Someone
in an elite US force killed the world’s most wanted man. Who fired the
bullet that killed bin Laden? We will know one day.
As for the head of Al Qaeda, well, he wasn’t that hard to
find. Abbottabad is a town of 80,000 people, 120 km from Islamabad:
Abbottabad became and is still
an important military cantonment and sanatorium, being the
headquarters of a brigade in the Second Division of the Northern Army
Corps. The garrison consisted of four battalions of native infantry
(Gurkhas) and four native mountain batteries
Were the Pakistanis protecting him? What else do we know about the
palce?
This
photo taken on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 shows the home of Abdul Hameed
in Abbottabad, Pakistan from where
Indonesian al-Qaida-linked militant, Umar Patek, was arrested in Jan.
2011. Patek was on the run from a $1 million U.S. bounty on his
head, for allegedly helping mastermind the 2002 suicide bombings of
nightclubs in Bali that killed 202 people.
What else?
Abbottabad is in northwest Pakistan, one of the first
towns on the famed Karakoram Highway that leads to the Himalayas and
China and less then a day’s drive from the Afghan border. During the era
of British rule, it was a major garrison town and it remains so today,
with Pakistani troops now occupying the barracks built and lived in by
the region’s former rulers. Officials did not say how or why Patek ended up there, but his
arrest followed the detention of an alleged al-Qaida facilitator in the
town called Tahir Shehzad, who worked as a clerk at the town’s post
office, a squat building just across the road from the British-era St.
Luke’s Church.
So. Bin Laden was pretty easy to spot?
Pakistan probable cricketers
are being trained for preparation of Twenty20 series and the Champions
Trophy and fitness of the players is specially being focused. The training camp is being held at a beautiful place of
Abbottbad where the probable players went through the extensive
practice of batting, bowling and fielding. They were told the finer
points of technique in every department of the game.
What odds Bin Laden has spent the last few years watching cricket?
At last everyone in the US can rejoice that the mass murderer who
wanted to kill Americans is dead. What say the rappers?
“Osama dead!?!” Lupe Fiasco tweeted. “Afghan
operation done now!?? Now kill wack schools and US imperialism.” “USA is at it again, number one in the rankings of killing
championships. Stealing the gold in the murder olympics and the crowd
goes wild!” Public Enemy rapper Chuck D. tweeted.
President Barack Obama announced Sunday, May 1st,
2011 at 11:34pm EST that the infamous terrorist Osama Bin Laden is dead.
He was killed in a compound outside of Islamabad, Pakistan. He was
killed by U.S. military forces on May 1st, 2011 in a firefight, and
those forces took possession of the body. No civilians were harmed in
this attack.
I am an American & American values I learned
growing up were that state sponsored extra-judicial killings were wrong. If we found Arab street repellent when they celebrated 9/11, and I
definitely did, how do we justify our celebrations now? A $25 million bounty on Osama’s head sounds like an inducement to
extra-judicial killing to me. Celebrating death is in poor taste, period.
Members of Jihadist internet forums said retaliation
would follow if reports of bin Laden’s dmeise were confirmed. “Oh God,
please make this news not true,” wrote one member. “God curse you Obama.
. . Oh Americans … it is still legal for us to cut your necks.” Another wrote: “Osama may be killed but his message of Jihad will
never die. Brothers and sisters, wait and see, his death will be a
blessing in disguise.”
While jihadis carry on being jihadis, the US has “disposed” of the body. Not buried it. Disposed of
it – like you do with rubbish.
And he is dead. Isn’t he?
