Showing posts with label Ladens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ladens. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Al Qaeda releases audio of bin Laden's posthumous for registration

Cairo  - Al Qaeda released a recording of Osama bin Laden in which leader of the Islamist group has leased the revolutions sweeping the Arab world and more called "tyrants" to be reversed for sound posthumously.


Islamists often were conspicuous by their absence in the uprisings largely led by ordinary citizens angered by autocratic, corruption and economic mismanagement.


But bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. raid on 2 may in Pakistan, supported by the uprisings which began in Tunisia were spread across a large part of the North Africa and the Middle East, saying that the wind of change would envelope the entire Muslim world.


Al Qaeda had said Ben Laden, who has orchestrated the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States, recorded a message a week before his death. The audio is included in a video Internet a period of more than 12 minutes and posted on Islamist websites.


In the audio portion, a voice which seems to be of Osama bin Laden referred the uprisings which began in the region of the Maghreb in North Africa.


"The Sun of the revolution has increased the Maghreb". The light of the revolution came from the Tunisia. He has given the peace of the nation and made the faces of the people happy. ?


WINDS OF CHANGE


President Zine al-Abidine Tunisia Ben Ali was overthrown in January, followed by the Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak after the mass protests centred on Cairo's Tahrir square.


Ben Laden sustained efforts to reverse the most influential of the Muslim world, inviting supporters to "establish an operations room that follows the events and worked in parallel... to save the people who have trouble to break down their tyrants."


"I believe that the wind of change will be envelope across the Muslim world," he said. "Young people must prepare what is necessary and cannot make a decision without consulting those experience and honesty who avoid half solutions."


However, there is no specific reference to the Libya, the Syria and the Yemen, where upheavals are underway. While denouncing Western hegemony, it was not mentioned in the United States, but "Jews became afraid," said by the Arab revolutions.


"Tunisia was the first but quickly the Knights of the Egypt took a spark of the free people of the Tunisia, in Tahrir square," said bin Laden, adding: "He made concerned leaders."


Commandos killed U.S. bin Laden in a house in Abbottabad, a garrison near the Pakistani capital town. The military of Pakistan and spy agencies embarrassed incident led to calls by members of the US Congress for a approach more severe towards the country.


Al Jazeera television, citing Pakistani security sources, said Wednesday that al-Qaeda had appointed Egyptian Saif al-Adel temporary leader after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Why Pakistan is bin Laden's Lone Success Story (Time.com)

What leader has the biggest headaches caused by the death of Osama bin-Laden? To be General Ashfaq Kayani, Commander of the Pakistan military and, as such, the most powerful man in the country where the head of al-Qaeda fugitives were hiding in plain sight.


Kayani is now faced with an escalation of tensions already level of crisis in the relationship with the main benefactor of his army, to the United States, whose billions of dollars in aid of the Pakistan army is first and foremost, to buy the cooperation against al-Qaeda. Of course, the United States and Pakistan have been disagree on the question of the Taliban since US forces for the first time in Afghanistan, but not on al-Qaeda - even at the time, General Pervez Musharraf essentially attempts to convince long Afghan proxy date of Pakistan to hand over bin Laden. Over the years that followed intelligence Pakistani service had helped roll U.S. hundreds of senior officers of the movement, including terrorist attacks of September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Even network Haqqani, the most militant groups Taliban who has a relationship with al-Qaeda, but also with the ISI, was probably based on a Pakistani perspective on the need to maintain influence in the post Afghanistan and the United States. (See the photos of the Lair of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan).


Although it is difficult to imagine the bin Ladens management set up a fortress-mansion worthy of a kingpin narco within spitting distance of the equivalent of the Pakistan's West Point but not raising questions in what is essentially a police stateIt is also difficult to see a motivation for Pakistan hiding of bin Laden of his American pursuers.


Even if Pakistan has always operated on the basis of its own interests in Afghanistan security - which are not the same as those of the United States and include a desire to restore at least a part of the power of his Taliban agents - Kabul masking of bin Laden would appear to be paradoxical: After all, establishing security Pakistan seeks the United States at the end of its mission in Afghanistan, Pakistani generals who consider the root cause of their insurgency domestic. Which seems, on the contrary, to encourage the creation of Pakistani security to help America find and eliminate bin Laden, because its withdrawal of the scene creates a a ramp of exit for the Americans begin to leave the Afghanistan.(See the obituary Osama bin Laden).


(A counterargument, perhaps, could be that because the pursuit of al-Qaeda makes benefactor of U.S. of Pakistan treat military leadership of this country with kid gloves, the deletion of Ben Laden factor may invite Washington to become much less forgiving of a State of nuclear weapons)(, savers extremists.)


But it really depends what we mean by "Pakistan". The civil government ostensibly gives the military its marching orders, but it is a fiction that anyone bothers to support seriously. And even in the security of telecommunications, it is quite conceivable - even apparent, sometimes in the past - that various elements continue sometimes competitors agendas. Whatever the explanation, however, it is likely that the episode of bin Laden a dangerous irritant for intelligence and security U.S. - Pakistan relationship already quickly quickly deteriorating. Military of Kayani has badly need this U.S. allowance, which will have a cost of increasing pressure to provide satisfactory account to articulate the suspicion of a double game. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden).


Again, outrage Pakistani cooling on all savers of bin Laden U.S. is only half the problem of the Kayani: the other half will be the fact that it will be the violent reaction of followers of Osama bin Laden and allies in Pakistanwhich assume that the Pakistani authorities were accomplices in the raid of Ben Laden U.S., just as they assume Pakistani complicity in the drone in the wars in Waziristan. Reports indicate that militants in the tribal areas consider break different ceasefire agreements and to revive domestic insurrection inspired by the army in the fight against a civil war. It is Pakistani not Americans will pay the highest price in the blood of vengeance wrought by the acolytes of bin Laden.


Pakistan may be the only country where al-Qaeda is always ready to achieve its key objective cause of jihadist-led rebellions against regimes in Muslim countries aligned with the West. While most of the Arab and Muslim world has largely ignored bin Laden, even when they have increased to challenge the U.S.-backed dictatorships, Pakistan is probably the only country in the world where the death of Osama bin Laden will be marked by angry crowds in the streetsbrandishing his portrait. These elements are not the majority of Pakistanis, of course, but they are much more numerous and present in the streets of Pakistan as they are in most other Muslim countries that bin Laden had hoped to rally to its flag. In the Arab world, his death has been greeted largely with a collective shrug by the people who are fighting their own local political battles with al-Qaeda is not relevant, except when its threat is cited as an excuse by tyrants to retain power. (See pictures of a jihadist trip.)


The American invasion of the Afghanistan 2001 caused by the September 11 attacks fueled anti-American sentiments existing in Pakistan to a lot of fever: when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the regime of Pakistan had actively encouraged - with the support of the United States - its citizens to go next door and the fight against the occupier "infidels". And the Pakistani public was not more tolerant of an invasion us was of a Soviet - thousands of Pakistani went across the border, once more, to fight against the "infidels", and many in Pakistan's military establishment see the presence us nearby as the key factor in the Taliban extremism inside.


Generals of Pakistan, then, have been caught since 2001 between requiring their ally and patron of the Arts in Washington, and appease their anti-American public - while the majority of the Pakistani not bin Laden, they are still more hostile to the United States now than they were in 2001. The result has been a growing domestic extremism expressed even on purely national issues such as the persecution of Pakistani Christians and political marginalization of those more inclined to cooperate with the West. (Watch the announcement of President Obama of the death of Osama Ben Laden.)


Thus the dilemma of the Kayani: The U.S. requires probably now with more in the more urgent, that he has to do more to tackle the supporters of Osama bin Laden and other extremist groups on its soil; a large part of its own public reprimand him are too. Pakistan regime is not in danger of being overthrown, which would have preferred that Ben Laden. But al-Qaeda a better Pakistan, elsewhere, in a corner of conduct between a pro-Western regime and its own people, on the basis of its cooperation against the jihadists and open cooperation with the United States more and more untenable.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Find the bin Ladens Raises Questions about the complicity of Pakistan (Time.com)

Now I finally understand how Osama bin Laden escaped our scope for all these years - he was hiding in the open air, in the backyard of one of our supposed allies. Put this in context: Pakistan is a police state where foreigners are not unnoticed, even when they live behind the high walls of a compound. In addition, the compound where bin Laden was killed Monday at the start of an American raid all but contiguous to the base of the 2nd Brigade of the Pakistani army. I can't help but suspect that some Pakistani officers, at a certain level, were carrying bin Laden. And Pakistan itself? I do not have a clue, but I suspect the worst on that one too.


When bin Laden disappeared first off the coast of the U.S. end 2001 to Tora Bora radar, many people entertained every conspiracy theory stupid that they could imagine, from the idea that the al-Qaeda Chief was in Riyadh as a guest of the Saudi royal family to the idea that he was at area 51protected by the CIA. During a visit to Islamabad, where three years ago, I asked a U.S. correspondent local which had been in country for five years where she thought that bin Laden was. She looked out the window at the House across the street: "Perhaps", she said. "" Who knows this country "? (See the photos of the hiding places of bin Laden in Pakistan).


The ill-informed explanation, that I kept back was that bin Laden had been killed some time and buried, his disciples not to say a word because they needed for him to remain a mystery - beacon for jihadists met to follow. With respect to the digital audio recordings that bin Laden made over the years, they are easily manipulated to make them sound current and give the impression that bin Laden was alive. The explanation that he lived at the bottom of a cave in ungovernable tribal regions of Pakistan was certainly thin.


Although I had left the CIA before the September 11 attacks, I can very well imagine his internal conversations on the comings and goings of Osama bin Laden. Whenever a junior analyst suggested that al-Qaida hiding in Pakistan proper - perhaps in an area of military cantonment like the one in which he was killed - an old hand would have jumped him, telling him that he was too far-fetched to discuss same. "This is not in the interest of Pakistan to hide the bin Ladens", the argument would go. "They receive too much money on our part." The generals who run the country are more intelligent than this. And anyway, where is the intelligence? "There is no interception of bin Laden calling Pakistan appropriate; No defectors showing him put there. (See pictures of Osama bin Laden).


No surprise, of course, Ben Laden after Tora Bora went off digital network. No no emails, no phones, no Twitter. He apparently didn't even TV compound he lived and even buried his trash. Which may explain the absence of hard intelligence and reason as his comings and goings were a blank slate – at least, apparently, until a messaging service was followed by the compound.


Capture Bin Laden in Pakistan, was a brilliant intelligence coup. Administration brilliantly, he played retrieve the corpse of Osama bin Laden to prove the man dead. But, being a person who is never satisfied, I'd explain why I am wrong to suspect official Pakistani complicity. Or, if I am correct, explain what is happening in this country and, if anything, we have intend to do about it. (Watch the announcement of President Obama of the death of Osama Ben Laden.)


Robert Baer, a former Middle East CIA field officer, is intelligence of the TIME.com columnist and author of see No Evil and the devil we know: dealing with the new Iranian superpower.