Sunday, May 1, 2011

Osama Bin Laden Killed in U.S. Operation Near Islamabad, Pakistan. Justice has been done -Obama


Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by a team of U.S. operatives after a firefight at a house in Pakistan where he had been hiding, US President Barack Obama said.

Osama Bin Laden was the master mind behind the September 11 attacks in Word Trade Center (Twin Towers), Newyork and pentagaon, Washington. And, he was known as the Face of the Terrorism.

On nights like this one we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done,” Obama said in a  televised address from the White House.

Obama delivered the news to the nation almost 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden orchestrated.

Almost 3,000 people were killed on Sept. 11, most at the World Trade Center in New York 

Watch below the address of Obama

You can read below  the complete transcript of Obama speech.


India said the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan underlined its "concern that terrorists belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan"

India's Home Minister P Chidambaram issued this statement.

Earlier today the United States Government informed the Government of India that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by security forces somewhere "deep inside Pakistan." After the September 11, 2001 terror attack, the US had reason to seek Osama Bin Laden and bring him and his accomplices to justice.

We take note with grave concern that part of the statement in which President Obama said that the fire fight in which Osama Bin Laden was killed took place in Abbotabad "deep inside Pakistan". This fact underlines our concern that terrorists belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan. We believe that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack, including the controllers and handlers of the terrorists who actually carried out the attack, continue to be sheltered in Pakistan. We once again call upon the Government of Pakistan to arrest the persons whose names have been handed over to the Interior Minister of Pakistan as well as provide voice samples of certain persons who are suspected to be among the controllers and handlers of the terrorists.

ABC News has reported as,

Osama Bin Laden was killed not by a drone strike, but up close during a firefight with U.S. troops. He was not living in a cave when he died, but in a million-dollar mansion with seven-foot walls just 40 miles from the Pakistani capital, where U.S. forces killed him Sunday

The Americans took Bin Laden's body into custody after the firefight and confirmed his identity. According to a senior administration official, the U.S. is "ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It's something we take seriously and therefore it's being handled in an appropriate manner."

 New York Times has reported that the body of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was taken to Afghanistan after he was killed in Pakistan and was later buried at sea.

According to Pakistani officials, the operation was a joint U.S.-Pakistani operation, but U.S. officials said only U.S. personnel were involved in the raid.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has hailed the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as "a great success" (Source: BBC)

CNN has reported that  Osama bin Laden was shot in the head during a U.S. raid, a congressional source familiar with the operation says.

In New York, a cheering crowd gathered at Ground Zero -- the site where the twin towers once stood. Strains of "God Bless America" could be heard intermittently trickling through the crowd.

Google Maps has been updated with a pinpoint for “Osama bin Laden’s Compound”, Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.

State Department of US  issues travel alert after Osama bin Laden killing. It has given below statement.
"Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation, U.S. citizens in areas where events could cause anti-American violence are strongly urged to limit their travel outside of their homes and hotels and avoid mass gatherings and demonstrations,"

"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," said a poster on Islamist forum. (source Reuters)

And, Vatican says Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will have to answer to God for having killed many people and exploiting religion to spread hate.
Osama Bin Laden: Timeline  (Source: Telegraph)

1957: Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, one of some 54 children born to Mohammad bin Laden, a building tycoon. His mother was of Syrian extraction. origin.
1969: Mohammed bin Laden dies in a helicopter crash. Osama, then aged around 11, is believed to have inherited $80 million.
1984: Bin Laden travels to Afghanistan, responding to calls for a jihad, or holy Islamic war, against the Soviet occupying force. There, he finances and takes command of a force of some 20,000 Islamic fighters recruited from around the world.
1988: Bin Laden founded his group Al-Qaeda (the base).
1989: The Soviet Union withdraws its forces from Afghanistan.
1991: A US-led alliance launches a war to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had occupied the previous year. Bin Laden declares jihad against the United States because it has based forces in his native Saudi Arabia, where Islam's two most holy places are located.
1992: Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, but his support for violent Islamic extremist groups in Egypt and Algeria leads his home country to his explusion and the cancellation of his passport.
1993: An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center in New York kills six people and injures around 1,000. The attack is later blamed on Al-Qaeda.
1995: A bomb kills US military advisors to Saudi national guard. Five US soldiers killed and more than 60 people are injured.
1996: A truck loaded with explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Nineteen US nationals are killed and 386 are wounded. Sudan forces Bin Laden to leave and he resurfaces in Afghanistan where the Taliban movement has just seized Kabul.
1998: Near-simultaneous bomb attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam kill 224 people, most of them Africans, and injure thousands. The US retaliates Bin Laden training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise missiles, killing at least 20 people.
1999: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation places bin Laden on its "10 most wanted" list.
2000: A suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden in Yemen kills 17 US Marines and wounds 38. The attack is attributed to Al-Qaeda.
2001: Two hijacked US airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which subsequently collapse. A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentagon outside Washington and a fourth in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks kill around 3,000 people. Washington offers a $25-million-dollar reward for any information leading to the arrest of bin Laden. US-led strikes on Afghanistan begin, aimed at forcing the ruling Taliban to hand over Bin Laden. Bin Laden vows no peace for the US and its citizens in a message broadcast via the Al-Jazeera television network. While not explicitly claiming responsibility for the attacks, he praises those who carried them out.
2002: Bin Laden is variously reported to be in Afghanistan, Iran Pakistan - or dead.
2003: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf says bin Laden is probably alive and hiding in Afghanistan, but claims al-Qaeda is no longer an effective terrorist organisation.
2003: Bin Laden releases a series of statements including comments on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, threats of more attacks, and offers of a truce with the United States.
2004: "I present a reconciliation initiative... to stop operations against all (European) countries if they promise not to be aggressive towards Muslims." (Al-Arabiya audiotape)
2008: Warns Europe of a "reckoning" after controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohammed published.
2010: Claims botched Christmas Day bombing of US airliner and threatens more strikes on US targets. Last message blames industrial nations for climate change and the United States for refusing to sign up to the Kyoto protocol, while urging a US dollar boycott.
2011: Bin Laden is killed in a firefight with covert US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, northeast of the capital Islamabad, Obama announces in a televised address.

The code name for Bin Laden was “Geronimo” in this operation executed by CIA of America.

Oil dropped the most in two weeks in New York after Obama confirms the killing of Osama, stoking speculation that the risk of Middle East supply disruptions will ease. (Source- Bloomberg)

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas condemned the killing by U.S. forces of Osama bin Laden and mourned him as an "Arab holy warrior."

And, the Pakistani Taliban threatened attacks against government leaders, including President Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistan army and the United States , after the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Future of Al-Qaeda?

CNN's national security analyst Peter Bergen who met bin Laden in 1997, believes al Qaeda will be irrecoverably damaged by the death of its founder.


The BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai in Peshawar says that the death of Osama Bin Laden means that al-Qaeda cannot now operate effectively as a military operation. "Although Bin Laden will be identified as a martyr, al-Qaeda will not have the same strength and importance," he said. And, he says that Bin Laden's deupty, Ayman al-Zawahiri does not have the same status as him and will inherit an organisation that is "diminished in strength".


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think that there is gonna be some new leader that ia gonna take over and then the whole thing will start over again.

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