Delta forces kill him aparently,quite shocking news,but now who will be al-Qaeda leader's?
and how al-qaeda will repond to such events?
Probably it will become a worring situatuation for people within the states,with cells that probably will take retaliation.
Delta forces kill him aparently,quite shocking news,but now who will be al-Qaeda leader's?
Here's a good article from the BBC, which outlines al-Aaeda leadership.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11489337
There seems to be no shortage of applicants:
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Abu Yahya al-Libi
Khalid al-Habib
Adnan el Shukrijumah
Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
Saif al-Adel
Mustafa Hamid
Saad Bin Laden
Hamza al-Jawfi
Matiur Rehman
Abu Khalil al-Madani
Midhat Mursi
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso
Adam Gadahn
Nasser Abdul Karim al-Wuhayshi
Anwar al-Awlaki
Abou Mossab Abdelwadoud
Manager: Ayman al-Zawahiri
Goalkeeper: Abu Yahya al-Libi
Left Back: Khalid al-Habib
Right Back: Adnan el Shukrijumah
Centre Back: Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
Centre Back: Saif al-Adel
Left Wing:Mustafa Hamid
Right Wing: Saad Bin Laden
Defensive Midfielder: Hamza al-Jawfi
Attacking Midfielder: Matiur Rehman
Centre Forward: Abu Khalil al-Madani
Striker: Midhat Mursi
Subs:
Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso
Adam Gadahn
Nasser Abdul Karim al-Wuhayshi
Anwar al-Awlaki
Abou Mossab Abdelwadoud
One thing is certain - world won't be at peace.
Ok, he's dead - so what now?
USA will find someone else.
of course, coming back to Glasgow will be tough for Al-Qaeda after their 2-0 defeat at Glasgow Airport in 2007 (John Smeaton scoring with a brilliant header for Glasgow, Kafeel Ahmed was on fire, but burned out in injury time).
You'd never be satisfied with anything he does. Thankfully, most people aren't so blinded with such disdain for the President - especially at a moment like this.
Danoff's words were pure disdain. You might feel otherwise, but I know it when I see it.
Funny how the guy responsible for making this happen (Obama) gets hated on for saying the very thing he should have said.
If any of you think you wouldn't say the same thing as Obama did, you're not a president. He's showing leadership.
I too do not share Danoff's cynicism regarding Obama's speech in many regards - while Obama perhaps could have emphasised the bigger picture more, I feel that it goes without saying how important this is in the wider context. Obama does say "thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counter-terrorism professionals" and praises their "extraordinary courage and capability", but I don't blame him for mentioning the current administration's redoubling of efforts to take Bin Laden out. While it will be viewed by some (cynics included) as a mere point-scoring exercise, I don't see it that way myself. Bin Laden was likely never going to be taken alive, so killing him was arguably the only way to serve justice upon him - and hence, whoever was at the helm when it was finally achieved deserves praise, not criticism. Bush had eight years to do it, but it clearly wasn't a priority - he even pretty much said so himself. Obama's speech does have an element of triumphalism to it, but then again, why shouldn't it?
One thing is for sure - this makes Pakistan (or atleast the Pakistani authorities) look very bad indeed.
Hillary Clinton"“Our message to the Taliban remains the same, but today it may have even greater resonance. You cannot wait us out. You cannot defeat us. But you can make the choice to abandon al-Qaeda and participate in a peaceful political process.”
Bush Jr."The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done."
ObamaYou hurt us very badly on September 11th. We are pathetic, we are victims, and we're still reeling from your abilities to inflict harm on us with no resources and few men. Also we're incompetent. Bush Jr obviously did nothing to find Bin Laden, and I alone within our government was able to get things done. Our military couldn't find him, our previous president couldn't find him - but I did. I guess it's all up to me. Oh, and by the way, count on us to continue imposing our will throughout the world regardless of sovereignty.
I find it very disturbing that people are marching through the streets, celebrating the death of someone. Yes he has caused the loss of life all over the world, but humans beings deserve better than this.
GrayfoxSomeone threw eggs at him at his Sydney conecert, shame they weren't combustible lemons.
They are ignorant, but the reality is that, nothing will be better, the world have suffer from problems to long to just be "fixed". In all time there have been wars, and groups that try to go against the society.Their are celebrations of death in some cultures in means of honouring and remembering them, but not when someone died.
I just hope they are not celebrating in his honour.
Bin Laden's former sister-in-law tells the Associated Press that he would have wanted to die "rather than face justice in an American court". Swiss-born Carmen Bin Ladin, who separated from his brother Yeslam more than 20 years ago, says she believes Osama Bin Laden had powerful supporters who protected and funded him up until the end.
Listening to the BBC link that I posted, oil prices went down.
Against? Against? I could have sworn they were helping this guy before somebody decided chasing him would be a good way to convince us to give up more freedoms in support of the fight.I like this one:
George J. Tenet, director of the CIA at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, expressed gratitude Monday on behalf of those of us who worked against bin Laden and al-Qaeda going back to the mid 1990s, across three administrations.
It's Amazing what the Americans can do when the PS3 Network is down LOL (found it on fb)
Against? Against? I could have sworn they were helping this guy before somebody decided chasing him would be a good way to convince us to give up more freedoms in support of the fight.
WASHINGTON Helicopters descended out of darkness on the most important counterterrorism mission in U.S. history. It was an operation so secret, only a select few U.S. officials knew what was about to happen.
The location was a fortified compound in an affluent Pakistani town two hours outside Islamabad. The target was Osama bin Laden.
Intelligence officials discovered the compound in August while monitoring an al-Qaida courier. The CIA had been hunting that courier for years, ever since detainees told interrogators that the courier was so trusted by bin Laden that he might very well be living with the al-Qaida leader.
Nestled in an affluent neighborhood, the compound was surrounded by walls as high as 18 feet, topped with barbed wire. Two security gates guarded the only way in. A third-floor terrace was shielded by a seven-foot privacy wall. No phone lines or Internet cables ran to the property. The residents burned their garbage rather than put it out for collection. Intelligence officials believed the million-dollar compound was built five years ago to protect a major terrorist figure. The question was, who?
The CIA asked itself again and again who might be living behind those walls. Each time, they concluded it was almost certainly bin Laden.
President Barack Obama described the operation in broad strokes Sunday night. Details were provided in interviews with counterterrorism and intelligence authorities, senior administration officials and other U.S. officials. All spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation.
By mid-February, intelligence from multiple sources was clear enough that Obama wanted to "pursue an aggressive course of action," a senior administration official said. Over the next two and a half months, Obama led five meetings of the National Security Council focused solely on whether bin Laden was in that compound and, if so, how to get him, the official said.
Normally, the U.S. shares its counterterrorism intelligence widely with trusted allies in Britain, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. And the U.S. normally does not carry out ground operations inside Pakistan without collaboration with Pakistani intelligence. But this mission was too important and too secretive.
On April 29, Obama approved an operation to kill bin Laden. It was a mission that required surgical accuracy, even more precision than could be delivered by the government's sophisticated Predator drones. To execute it, Obama tapped a small contingent of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six and put them under the command of CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose analysts monitored the compound from afar.
Panetta was directly in charge of the team, a U.S. official said, and his conference room was transformed into a command center.
Details of exactly how the raid unfolded remain murky. But the al-Qaida courier, his brother and one of bin Laden's sons were killed. No Americans were injured. Senior administration officials will only say that bin Laden "resisted." And then the man behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil died from an American bullet to his head.
It was mid-afternoon in Virginia when Panetta and his team received word that bin Laden was dead. Cheers and applause broke out across the conference room.
What a horrible speech from Obama for such an important occasion. It went from "Al Qaeda hurt us really badly, boo hoo" to "I personally am responsible for everything" to "America does what it wants where it wants" WTH? None of that works.
How about a little more focus on our military, a little more focus on the message that we want to send, a little more focus on the bigger picture... terrible speech.
Also... awesome that we finally got him.
I guess he should have had the mansion bombed to rubble, stood on it and planted a banner saying "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, FOR REAL" and then some people would have been satisfied.You'd never be satisfied with anything he does. Thankfully, most people aren't so blinded with such disdain for the President - especially at a moment like this.
It's Amazing what the Americans can do when the PS3 Network is down LOL (found it on fb)
Interesting interpretation. The thing is, Obama did at least get the job done - finally. And it doesn't really matter to me how soppy you think Obama's words are - killing Bin Laden kind of says it all really.Danoff as ObamaYou hurt us very badly on September 11th. We are pathetic, we are victims, and we're still reeling from your abilities to inflict harm on us with no resources and few men. Also we're incompetent. Bush Jr obviously did nothing to find Bin Laden, and I alone within our government was able to get things done. Our military couldn't find him, our previous president couldn't find him - but I did. I guess it's all up to me. Oh, and by the way, count on us to continue imposing our will throughout the world regardless of sovereignty.