Speech Obama to the British Parliament, has praised the strength, humility

London - in a historic speech to the British Parliament today, the Obama President has insisted that then that a new world order has been shaped, the United States, Britain and their allies will continue to play an essential role to bring peace and prosperity in the world.

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Large-scale speech, which has also focused on the economy, nuclear proliferation and the importance of education, received a standing ovation from Parliament and was commended for its topics human State and tones.

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"He has recognized the strength of the past but insists on the need to transform the values confirmed by Anglo-American relations, their origins in universal values," said James Ellison, school of history at Queen Mary, University of London. "It was a speech of interdependence and multilateralism." Obama s gone a long way today to extend the history of America beyond Bush.

"I can't think of an American President to make a such sensitive speeches in Europe for some time", he added, noting that it struck the right balance between the force and humility.

The speech was the first time that an American President had addressed the Parliament in the historical framework of Westminster Hall, who played a central role in the Government of the nation for 900 years. Only three other foreign dignitaries have been granted this honour since World War II: Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela and Pope Benedict XVI.

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Obama rejected the idea that the emergence of new superpowers made the alliance not less relevant. While China, India, Brazil and other nations assume the responsibilities of global leadership, ties with the United States and Europe remain a € ?indispensable € to the objective of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just, a

But he promised in the future, a more subtle approach to Foreign Affairs referring to the position of the United States has already taken on the Libya. "We will proceed with humility, and knowledge that we do not dictate results abroad." Ultimately, freedom must be won by the people themselves, not imposed from without. But us can and must stand with those who struggle as well. ?

At a press conference held jointly with Prime Minister David Cameron earlier in the day, Obama talks about winning the war in Libya as a "slow continuous process."

He returned to the theme of the North Africa and the Middle East in his address to Parliament, stressing that the United States and Britain supported those struggling for democracy, but implying that support did not mean military intervention.

"We must show that we back up our words deeds," he said. "This means investing in the future of these nations this transition to democracy, starting with the Tunisia and the Egypt - expanding trade links; by helping demonstrate them that freedom brings prosperity. ?

He said that, while many of the problems of the past decade have been retreating, the future would present major challenges. If while a large part of the speech reaffirmed the close relationship between Britain and the United States, the President also acknowledged that "a new chapter in the shared history" would require a building "new partnerships", to adapt to new circumstances and remake ourselves to meet the requirements of a new era

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Obama promises no "break" in the offensive in Libya

LONDON - Firmly united against Muammar Gadhafi, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron promised on Wednesday a relentless and punishing pummeling of his forces in Libya but also pleaded for patience for an effort with no clear end in sight. Obama ruled out a deadline for ending NATO's military assault, saying only that it would be over "in a timely fashion."

"gadhafi and his regime need to understand that there will not be a letup in the pressure that we are applying," Obama said, even as Libyan rebels clashed with mercenaries fighting for Gadhafi and less than a day after NATO intensified its bombardment of the Libyan capital. Britain's leader, hosting a news conference with Obama, said the two agreed on a need to "be turning up the heat in Libya."

The Libyan crisis and the broader Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East will be major topics as Obama, Cameron and leaders of other wealthy nations head to the Group of Eight gathering in the Normandy resort of DeauvilleFrance, for talks that begin Thursday. The world's top economies are scrambling to figure out how to help countries with democratic transitions without being seen as heavy-handed.

For Obama and Cameron, the bullish language on Gadhafi came as the international community has stepped up both the air campaign and diplomatic efforts against him in a bid to break a virtual stalemate between the rebels in the east of Libya and Gadhafi, who maintains a stranglehold on most of the west.

The NATO mission, authorized by a United Nations mandate, is intended to save lives but not to create a regime change - as Cameron reminded everyone on Wednesday.

In essence, however, Gadhafi has become a target, as has his presidential compound. NATO's official line is that the compound is a command-and-control center and that it is not trying to kill Gadhafi.

Despite the unified Anglo-American position, there were signs of growing resistance from Russia, which did not veto the intervention at the United Nations, at the extent and intensity of the bombing campaign.

On Wednesday, Russia's NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin, went so far as to accuse unnamed NATO members of laying plans for a ground invasion and exceeding the U.N. mandate.

"We do not understand why, instead of an embargo on delivery of weapons, there suddenly was introduced a complete sea blockade of Libya, why pass." "gadhafi was personally declared as a legitimate target despite (the fact) that this U.N. resolution was directed at stimulating a political dialogue between the opposing sides," Rogozin said in Brussels, according to the state RIA Novosti agency.

Away from Tripoli, Libyan rebels clashed Wednesday with Sudanese mercenaries fighting for Gadhafi near the border with Sudan. Gadhafi has long provided arms, training and vehicles to various rebel groups in Sudan.

The resolve and political will of the nations involved in challenging Libya's government are being tested as Gadhafi remains entrenched.

"I believe that we have built enough momentum that as long as we sustain the course that we're on, that he is ultimately going to step down," Obama said. He refused to say how long that would take, calling any such artificial timeline. But he added that if the coalition shows resolve and pours in resources, "we're going to be able to achieve our mission in a timely fashion."

"The two key things here are patience and persistence," Cameron added.

Neither is in huge supply in the United States given that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan U.S.-led have raged on for years.

The U.S. and British leaders said that Gadhafi has seen his military power and grip on the country since this campaign began, under United Nations authority, degraded as an emergency effort to protect the civilians who have been challenging him. The United States and Britain remain adamant that they will not send in ground forces even as the try to support the rebels other ways.

"Ultimately this is going to be a slow, steady process in which we're able to wear down the regime forces," Obama said. Pushing back against those who may question the success of the effort, Obama raised the prospect of some false perception that NATO had some secret air assets it wasn't employing, and then he shot it down.

"Once you rule out ground forces, then there are going to be some inherent limitations to our air strike operations," Obama said. "It means that the opposition on the ground in Libya is going to have to carry out its responsibilities."

That opposition remains weak. And NATO, the North Atlantic military alliance that took over command of the campaign from the U.S. on March 31, appears to have no clear exit strategy. Two of the allies, Britain and France, have descended into public squabbling over bringing the fight closer to Gadhafi with attack helicopters, something France plans to do but that Cameron avoided addressing directly when asked Wednesday.

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim reacted angrily to Obama's assertion that Gadhafi should leave power against the threat of a relentless campaign.

"Gadhafi's destiny, Gadhafi's future, is for the Libyan nation to decide," Ibrahim said. "It would be a much more productive statement to say that the Libyan people need to engage in an inclusive, peaceful, democratic, transparent, political process in which they can thing the shape of their political system and the leaders of their system""," he said.

On the other hand, rebel media spokesman Jalal Gallal said Obama's statement was "very positive news." "We are on the same wavelength."

"We all are agreed in a vision of a democratic Libya without Gadhafi, his family or any member of his inner circle." We also concur that there will be no foreign troops on the ground. We need the international community, the air cover, until the objective is met, and that we have. "it is just going to take a little longer than necessary."

He repeated the rebels' call for heavy weapons to match Gadhafi's arsenal: "given the right equipment and training, we can do the job ourselves."

Witnesses in Libya have reported African mercenary fighters shooting at protesters or being captured by anti-Gadhafi forces. Some were flown in to put down the rebellion, but most fighters were already in the war-torn country.

Meanwhile, in NATO airstrikes overnight, British aircraft hit four of Gadhafi's armored vehicles near the Libyan city of Zlitan, British military spokesman Maj. Gen. John Lorimer said in a statement. Tornado and Typhoon jets also destroyed a radar station in the coastal city of Brega during the Tuesday night raid.

Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, called on the South African leader Jacob Zuma to push forward negotiations to end the three-month conflict when he arrives next week in Tripoli.

Zuma is the highest-ranking politician to visit Gadhafi since the fighting began in Libya.

Kaim told The Associated Press the Gadhafi government is hoping Zuma will help arrange a cease-fire between Libyan government forces, NATO and the rebels, and oversee a transitional period.

Citing a deep mistrust of Gadhafi and emboldened by NATO strikes, the rebels have insisted Gadhafi must leave power before any negotiations can take place.

Throwing into doubt the effectiveness of Zuma's visit, the South African leader will not be meeting representatives of the interim government based in the de-facto rebel capital of Benghazi.

Kaim said there was no need for Zuma to consult the interim government, on grounds it does not represent most of the rebel insurgents currently battling Gadhafi's forces.

British codename of the Obama: it is an insult?

Before the arrival of President Obama in London, The Daily Mail published an article under the title "Codename"smart alec": the British police label Obama with the word"slightly insulting"Punjabi"for visit to U.K."Scotland Yard, explains its computers randomly selected a code for Obama name""chalaque" for his visit to the country. But the newspaper quoted a leader of the Sikh community stating that the name is often used to "denigrate" someone. Yahoo News then picked up the story, featuring on its homepage under the title: "Obama Code named smart alec in Britain."

As someone who grew up hearing chalak used to describe a person who is a notch below evil, I laugh. The West may try to assert cultural prowess on the economic front, on its military and diplomatic, but codename of the Obama is yet another example of intercultural communication in lost in translation.

I checked with the best person that I could find on the shades of the regularity of South Asian culture: my mother, Sajida Nomani, a native speaker of Urdu schooling in the highly maniérée culture, called adab in Arabic, Lucknow (India)., a kind of Charleston, s.c., in South Asia. She is a grandmother with a sophisticated ear. Chalak, as it is usually written phonetically, is not just a Punjabi Word, but also found in Urdu, Hindi and Bengali. Verbally, Hindi and Urdu are very similar, and the Punjabi and Bengali are related to Hindi and Urdu.

No doubt about it, she said. "It is an insult." Practice my mother dusted off the coast of our edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English-Urdu, published in Lahore, Pakistan, by the society of book Oriental Ganpat road and turned to page 156 [PDF], where she read the definition of chalak. It read: "adj. clever;" knowing; clever. Sly. "My father, Zafar Nomani, me then faxed a copy of the dictionary pages, including the 156.

Believe me, when they mean "clever" and "knowledge", which is not as a compliment. The word is a pejorative term for those aged more than about 7. For a young person, this may mean clever, as, "what a ruse boy." Think that somewhere between Eddie Haskell of Leave It to Beaver and the Uriah Heep in Dickens David Copperfield character. Or Tom Sawyer TWAIN Huckleberry Finn.

But for a grown man, above all, it is a curb. Think about Arnold Schwarzenegger, to keep his wife, Maria Shriver, the secret of a baby born to his cleaning lady: a true chalak. Or Bernie Madoff, for foundations and million seniors scam: a precise chalak. Osama bin Laden to hide in the city of military garrison of Abbottabad Pakistan kilometres of national capital? Definitely, 100% chalak, although most of its supporters would step insult even Ben Laden by calling a chalak. On the contrary, they would say Seal were real chalak to keep operation Geronimo a Pakistani secret. During this time, if he knew the word, comedian Jon Stewart would say that Pakistan has been a real chalak to pretend he did not know bin Laden was in Abbottabad.

As you can see, chalak is in the eye of the accuser, er, beholder. But Chief Chalak is not a compliment.

If someone tries to con someone, we will say, Oh, "he has really tried a chalak." Or if someone tries to get out of trouble, other say, Oh, "he is a true chalak." Or if an ethnic group wants to put an end to another ethnic group, they say, "Oh, they are real chalak." On Yahoo, a Bengali speaker explains that chalak is used to refer to a scammer: "we would say 'buddhiman' for a knowledgeable person and"chalak"for anyone trying to outsmart the other (s).".

For a few references of real pop culture on chalak, you must go no further than Bugs Bunny. Blogger Muhammad Ahmed displayed a Bugs Bunny cartoon, dubbed in Punjabi and has called, Chalak Khargosh, chalak rabbit, for the poor, or poorly understood little Bugs.

A company based in Houston, the Group Chalak, with executives rooted ethnically in Asia to the South, the question properly on its Web site, "" why Chalak? "" I know no more than an amateur "aunt", as older women are called in South Asia, clucked their tongues to the use of the word in a company name.

"The word CHALAK is Hindi…, said the Web site." She talks about a meaning, which means "overflow", if the word is pronounced "chu - luk." "The other meaning is"wise or intelligent"If pronounced chaa-laak," that it claims."." But, on the explanation of its site Web, society cannot hide the real meaning of chalak: "Chalak group is a dynamic enterprise organization led by several young and energetic entrepreneurs." Those guys WISE started their business in 1998 with an overflow of energy and enthusiasm. "A caption on a photograph of the five directors of readings of the society,"the chalak Group wise guys"and a picture of the founder has his tongue paste, just somewhat indelicately. Nice guy wise move, leaving his chalak flag fly.

Now Scotland Yard could borrow a page from the Chalak group and claim that this meant no insult is thinking but Obama as "wise or smart". It would be classic chalak.

ASRA q. Nomani is the author of Standing Alone: An American Woman struggle for the soul of Islam. She is co-director of the project Pearl, an investigation into the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. His activism for the rights of women in its W.V. Mosque is a PBS documentary, the mosque in Morgantown. She has recently published a monograph, milestones for a spiritual Jihad: towards an Islam of Grace. ASRA@asranomani.com

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Obama to visit tornado-hit State

May 24, 2011, update at 13: 08 GMT Barack Obama said the people of Missouri "the American people is by your side" U.S. President Barack Obama said he will visit the State of Missouri to tornado-hit Sunday, just after returning from a tour of six days of Europe.

Huge Sunday tornado cut a path through the city of Joplin, killing at least 116 people, some six miles (10 km) in length on at least one kilometre wide.

President Obama said the tornado "devastating and heartbreaking."

He promised the Government would "do absolutely everything we can" to help victims recover and reconstruction.

During this time, the National Weather Service warned of storms more Tuesday, with the risk for severe weather increasing later in the day.

Southeast Kansas, and Missouri is configured to be battered by winds of 70 mph, "the size of baseballs" hail and tornadoes possible, said the Agency.

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Mr. Obama spoke of London before meeting Queen Elizabeth II at the beginning of his stay at the United Kingdom.

Resident Dominic Puller filmed the destruction caused by the tornado.

It is the second stop on a tour of four countries of Europe, and Mr. Obama is due back in Washington on Saturday night.

Continue reading the main story March 1925: Deadliest twister in the history of the United States as so-called Tri-State tornado kills 695 in Missouri, Southern Illinois and Southwest IndianaMarch 1932: Deep South tornado outbreak kills 332 people of Texas in South Carolina, with 270 die in Alabama aloneMay 1840: the Great Natchez tornado killed 317 people in Mississippi city, most living on flatboats on the riverApril 1974: 310 killed in 24 hours "super outbreak" of 148 tornadoes in 13 States .mai 1896 : Two weeks of storms kill 305 people Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky's "I want everyone to Joplin, everyone in Missouri, everyone in Minnesota, everyone across the Midwest to know that we are here for you.""," stated Mr. Obama.

"The American people is at your side." We will stay there until every house is repaired, until each neighbourhood is rebuilt, until all businesses are back on its feet. ?

Damage in Missouri likely Mr. Obama said, eventually exceeding the destruction of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, of tornadoes in April.

Federal disasters and homeland security officials have traveled to the affected areas, said the President of the United States.

A large part of the South shore of Joplin is reported to have been launched, with churches, schools, businesses and homes to rubble.

Monday, Governor of the Missouri Jay Nixon said storms had caused damage in all of the State.

"As a State, we are deploying each agency and the resources available to keep families safe Missouri, search for missing persons, provide emergency medical care and begin to recover," he said.

He warned that the storms were not finished and urged almost to keep a close eye on the latest weather information.

Obama welcomes the "special" links to the United Kingdom

 President Obama said that he was honoured to be in Britain to reaffirm sustainable bondsUS President Barack Obama welcomed the "special relationship" of his country with the United Kingdom in a speech at a banquet of the State in Buckingham Palace.

He thanked the United Kingdom for his solidarity after the terrorist attacks of 11 September and in the fight against the security threats that followed.

He has also rendered homage to the military forces of the United Kingdom "standing elbow to elbow with United States for decades".

The banquet is hosted by the Queen and assisted by the royalty, politicians and movie stars.

He came at the end of a first State visit of President filled day.

The banquet has attended all three main leaders political, Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and leader of the labour party Ed Miliband, and former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major.

Other famous names are seated around the table in the form of horseshoes included former athlete and politician Lord Coe, actors Tom Hanks and Kevin Spacey, actress Helena Bonham Carter, entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

The guests of 170 or so d?né on the new season lamb, roasted potatoes and a vanilla charlotte, accompanied by vintage champagne.

The two speeches were short, but direct.

President Obama went out of his praise of Britain, calling the place of birth of the rule of law and the rights of men and women. His particular emphasis on the "solidarity" in the relationship: solidarity, he told the United Kingdom showed to America in the decade since the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Of course, he left place other crucial alliances America around the world, but the President highlighted the confidence in the British-American partnership deal with the challenges of the 21st century together.

He went his way to praise his host, calling for the Queen "living witness to the power of our alliance and a main source of its strength."

The Queen was also clear: "we are here to celebrate the relationship has been proven, tested and - Yes - special between our two countries." It is not the spirit by the old formula. Clearly, both sides think he has a positive future.

The Queen opened the procedure by developer Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle that she was "so glad" they visited the UK again.

She said: "I firmly believe that the strength of our ties and many shared interests will continue to ensure that, when the United States and the United Kingdom solidarity, our people and other people of good will around the world will be safer and can become more prosperous."

It proposes a toast to "celebrate proven, tested - and, Yes, a special relationship between our two countries".

Then, the President said the guests: "as we approach the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, I am particularly grateful for the solidarity that the United Kingdom showed to America over the last decade."

"Since that day to this you have been our closest partner in the fight to protect our people from terrorism attacks and violent everywhere extremism in the world despite heavy sacrifices here."

To conclude, the President has proposed a toast to the Queen, but it appears that an error such as the band played the opening bars to God Save the Queen before it was finished.

The Sung arrived in London Monday evening of the Ireland Republic, a day before of the schedule because of the threat of disruption of the volcanic ash cloud.

The Queen opened the banquet by recalling the memories of previous meetings with the Sung

On Tuesday, the President and his wife joined the Queen at Buckingham Palace, where they briefly met the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge before moving to the gardens of the palais for a ceremonial welcome including a 41-gun salute.

Visit of the presidential couple to the Abbey of Westminster included a meeting impromptu with choristers, when Mr. Obama was often derided by his wife for her lack of singing talent.

Mr. Obama briefly met the Prime Minister at Downing Street before talks on Wednesday. Then, they left together for a surprise visit to the Academy of Globe in Southwark, South of London, where they did team for a match against schoolchildren table tennis.

Leaders Wednesday talks are likely to focus on the Middle East and the ongoing conflict in Libya.

Route of the day will also include a barbecue to number 10 with British and American military veterans and a speech on foreign policy of the United States to members before a return to Winfield House banquet, where the Queen will be officially say goodbye.

In an article common to the times on Tuesday, Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron said their country relationship: "ours is not only a special relationship, it is an essential relationship - for us and for the world."

The President and the Prime Minister has played table tennis in a surprise visit to a South London academy

"When the United States and Britain's solidarity, our people and people from around the world can become safer and more prosperous."

"The reason for which it develops is because it advance our common interests and shared values." It is a perfect what we both need and that we both believe. ?

They also promises not to abandon the struggle for democracy demonstrators, in Arab countries wrote that they would "stand with those who want to bring light in dark support, those who seek freedom instead of repression".", helps it those who raised the foundations of democracy".

"We will step respect that their aspirations get crushed in a hail of bombs, bullets and mortar fire."

"We are reluctant to use force, but when our interests and our values are met, we know that we have a responsibility to act."

O'Bama Come Home: An Irish Village welcomed its prodigal son

As residents of Moneygall ready themselves to welcome from Barack Obama on 23 May, many hope the visit will bring the Irish village exactly that great-back-grand-father of the President was seeking when he left it 150 years: prosperity.

Must be less than a minute to drive through hometown the ancestral of the Obama, a sleepy and typical rural village whose main attractions are a single pub, a corner store, a post office and a football field. But days before the arrival of the President, the calm that usually covers the village is broken by a blow of brush, beating Stars and Stripes, the squeak of practising Fiddler and the roar of the stylish security team cars of the advance. In Ollie ' Hayes bar, the nerve centre of the visit, local drinkers watching with fascination international camera crews come and go and men in black suits to discuss the final details. (See the first Queen visit means in Ireland).

There is tension and excitement for the villagers aware that the eyes of the world will soon be on their 300 tightknit community. "When the day of Saint Patrick, Obama announced that he was here, he did not only say he had Ireland or in Europe, but that happens to Moneygall," said bar owner Hayes proudly. Although the links between the leader of the world free and blink-and-you'll-miss it village were come light years ago, when Obama was a candidate in 2007, residents as nephew Ollie Hayes Billy Hayes did believe that "human more important in the world" is about the visit.

At this time, local Anglican Rector Canon Stephen Neill was central to find evidence of the ancestry of Obama in the parish registers. "A shudder went behind my back when I saw what was in front of me," said. An American researcher of genealogy Ancestry.com website had bound mother of the Obama in the County of Offaly and had sent Neill Canon in him asking search parish registers. The Rector was discovered that the Kearney family was shoemakers who helped the poor during the Irish potato famine, which lasted from 1845-1852. In 1850, Falmouth Kearney - age of just 19 - made travel difficult across the Atlantic to lay claim to the land. The search for a better life to the United States, he leaves behind a country devastated by a famine which caused the death of a million people and forced another million to emigrate. Kearney married and is now a farmer in Indiana, their seven children - whose daughter Mary Anne, the mother of Obama Stanley Dunham grandmother. Many former Presidents of the United States claimed Irish roots, including John f. Kennedy and Ronald Regan. But Obama Irish connections make him unique as the "first President of the African-American-Irish", says O'Neill Canon. (See pictures of the tree of the family of Barack Obama).

Distant cousin of Henry Healy's Obama think that the President owes his oration skills his Irish ancestry. In the role of the Healy as the spokesperson for the family, the local accountant became the star of an international Irish tourism advertising campaign and is always "surrealist" that he is bound to the President of the United States. Healy will be one of the many of distant relatives who will meet Obama during his brief visit discrete village - entry is limited to the local and invited sections. Tens of thousands of others will be hoped to catch a glimpse of President - which is very admired by many in Ireland - a mass demonstration in Dublin in the evening. Written in the Irish Independent newspaper a few days ago, the Irish Minister Enda Kenny captured the high view in which the President is required: visit "Obama home" will be "an accomplishment of the American dream." A dream, that, on his election, has regained much of its appeal. ?

Cousin Healy described the visit as an "escape hatch" of the perpetual bad news story of the crisis devastating financial Ireland, which has left many residents of Moneygall without employment. The village, which was one of the main areas of rest for travellers between the cities of Dublin and Limerick, has been treated by a new economic crisis last December when it was bypassed by a motorway. But local entrepreneurs hope that travel of the President can reverse the downward trend. A shop of souvenirs, sale of postcards Obama, plates and cups has opened next to the location of the former home of his parents. The Office of local station has already given an of brisk gifts of novelty for Irish curious passers-by. Young businessman Billy Hayes opened a store for the sale of t-shirts with slogans such as "Obama Irish Pub" and "what is the Barack Craic?"-"craic", which rhymes with Barack, being Irish slang for gossip. And then there is a rest area the highway being built on the outskirts of the village - million-euro developers hope to call it instead of Obama. (See more information about the Moneygall in 10 ways people top time in the world have cashed on Obama).

Recent cosmetic changes to the village in country Offaly were considerable, but Canon O'Neill believes that the real change "is in the minds of the people." Visit of Obama gave them "self belief" and the feeling that they have something will worthwhile to offer that "reap rewards in the future", he said. The President should spend less than two hours to Moneygall in his Irish stopover one day - but the brief return of a long-lost son will leave a footprint that could last for generations.

Comments the Obama AIPAC can conceal a mutual distrust, say Israeli analysts

Tel - Aviv - Obama President and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday sought to caveats a new crisis after the two clashed in public in the White House two days earlier in the appeal of Mr. Obama for a border between Israel and a Palestinian State based on the 1967 boundary line the West Bank.

Addressing a Conference of the Committee of public affairs of American in powerful (AIPAC) Sunday Israel, Obama seemed blunt statement address Mr. Netanyahu Friday that the use of the line of 1967 as future border is "untenable" highlighting that the sides would need to draw a new border that would include the swaps of land to allow Israel to incorporate some Jewish settlements State. Shortly after the speech of Obama, Netanyahu issued a statement expressing "satisfaction" for the remarks.

But few believe Sundaya€ ? s comments can cover until Israeli analysts see as the same lack of confidence and coordination between the two administrations who was arriving for two years. This crisis will be displayed in the coming days when Netanyahu addresses AIPAC Monday and then gave a speech to Congress on Tuesday.

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"There are a lot of suspicion on both sides, and this is a problem," said Shmuel Rosner, columnist for the Israeli daily Maariv. ".Obama suspect that the Netanyahu Government does not want to advance the solution of two States and that it is to drag his felt because it does not support the peace process in General. And I think that the Netanyahu Government suspects that this administration may... try to force a solution which will be not acceptable to Israelis. ?

Mr. Rosner, says the Prime Minister was rejected because he was on short notice last week the Obama plans to refer to the 1967 borders as a starting point for renewed peace talks.

Although Sunday, Obama noted that the sides had already discussed this principle in recent negotiations Netanyahu considers the endorsement, U.S. as change game development. However, Rosner, response of the premier conferences Obama on camera Friday has been "disproportionate" Israeli and bordered on "hysterical", explains.

The analysis of words - and body language

Israeli newspapers were brimming with Deconstructions of meeting of the two leaders Friday, suggesting that body language during remarks on camera was evidence of mutual disdain and frustration.

Title page of coverage in the Yediot Ahronot speaks of "mutual mistrust", while the daily blessings Israel cited a help Prime Minister who said "President Obama does not understand reality". "

Ben Caspit, wrote in the Maariv daily, said "we have declared war to America."

Members of the Government of right-wing Netanyahu, meanwhile, were quick to back up, some to speculate that Netanyahu believes that a majority of Israelis would support him on his refusal to negotiate based on the 1967 line.

History of Rocky

Last year, a conflict between the allies on the construction of Jewish neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem triggered a crisis and a meeting chilly in the White House between the leaders. And during the first months of Obamaa€ ? s tenure, the sides sparred in public by his opposition to the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

He appeared - after last year's administration dropped pursuing a limit on the expansion of the Israeli settlement - Obama and Netanyahu had improved their links. But the outbreak of the regional turmoil in the Arab world has exposed once again different visions of the world, with the American President, calling for a renewed effort to revive the moribund peace as more essential than ever talks and Israeli Prime Ministerthe call for caution.

"The crisis is very serious." "It is not something, you can put the lipstick," said Meir Javedanfar, Middle East Tel Aviv-based analyst. "It seems Obama is of join the rest of the international community in the belief that the current Government does not create trust and go forward with the process of peace". ".

Netanyahu, explains differences with Obama exaggerated

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused, before a speech Sunday by President Barack Obama a group assassinated, they were locked in crisis after their dispute public on peace in the Middle East.

"Reports of disagreement have been blown way out of proportion," Netanyahu said that on Saturday by a spokesman.

The White House Friday, Netanyahu flatly rejected vision of the Obama for the borders of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, occupied in what appears to be the opening of a deep division between Israel and the United States.

In a rebuke sharp to closest ally of Israel, said Netanyahu Obama its approval to an address on the Palestinian request Thursday to return to the borders of 1967 Israel - land grants great sense - leave indefensible Israel.

Last comments Netanyahu did not any change to this position.

But as Obama prepared for the annual meeting in Washington, the Organization of the pro-Israeli lobby AIPAC, where he could do with a cool reception from some delegates, Netanyahu appeared to try to soothe any anger toward the President.

"It's true, we have some differences of opinion, but are among friends," the spokesman for the city telling him.

Netanyahu believed that Obama had "shown its commitment to the safety of Israel, in word and the deed", added the spokesman. "And we work in collaboration with the administration to achieve common goals."

The spokesman did not define these common objectives, but Israeli officials have cited the opposition of the Obama for a Palestinian bid to win the recognition of the United Nations of a State in September in the absence of talks for peace and for the Iranian nuclear program.

SPEECH BY MR. NETANYAHU

Netanyahu addresses AIPAC Monday and a joint meeting of Congress, Tuesday, with political commentators speculate whether if he would use these platforms to attack the Obama peace plan or to try to facilitate their strained relations.

Obama, in his speech on Thursday, laid down clear markers still on the compromise, he believes Israel and Palestinians must resolve a conflict that has long been seen as a source of tension in the Middle East.

But it has not presented an official U.S. peace plan or a timetable for an agreement he had promised after win in September.

Pushing Netanyahu risks alienating the base of the Jewish State of support among the American public and Congress as Obama seeks re-election in 2012.

Talks under the auspices of Washington on the initiative of the Obama collapsed last year when Netanyahu refused to extend a moratorium on the regulation of buildings in the West Bank.

Word of Thursday, Obama said: "we believe that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the lines of 1967 with mutually agreed swaps" land.

Benjamin Netanyahu, himself, appeared in an index, in a speech to Parliament Monday, a territorial trade Israel, said that his Government would retain "block settlement" in a future peace agreement.

The remarks were widely interpreted as indicating he would be willing to abandon more small and isolated settlements, and they drew fire from right-wing politicians and settler leaders.

Among the new bombs, Tripoli said "delirious" Obama

TRIPOLI  - had NATO Sunday performed early in raids against the port of Tripoli and Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's residence near the centre of the capital, said a Libyan official.

"There were two raids on the port and Bab Al-Aziziyah", the residence of Kadhafi, who has already been the target has several times, the official said.

Earlier, around 12: 30 (2230 GMT Saturday), an AFP journalist heard two explosions and a fighter aircraft flying over the capital at low altitude.

Taken in a bus by the authorities, international correspondents do not have access to the residence of Gaddafi. An official said after speaking to the guards from the immense residence: "they expect new raids, we do not have permission to go."

NATO had earlier hit eight ships of the Navy of Gaddafi, the alliance said as U.S. President Barack Obama responded to the constitutional questions concerning the duration of the Libyan conflict.

During this time, the authorities in Tripoli breakdown Obama as "delirium" for more soon which suggests that the departure of Libyan leader veteran is inevitable.

They strongly deny reports of Gaddafi woman and her daughter had fled in Tunisia and the Minister of petroleum Shukri Ghanem had defected.

NATO said it carried out "precision strikes" at the ports of Tripoli, Al-Khums and Surt, hitting eight boats.

"In view of the increasing use of naval assets, NATO had no choice but to take decisive action to protect the civilian population of the Libya and NATO forces at sea, said Rear Admiral Russell Harding, Deputy Chief of the NATO-led air war."

Harding insisted that all affected targets were military but Mussa Ibrahim Government spokesman accused NATO of trying to push the international shipping companies to clear direction of the Government-held ports.

British aircraft target Al-Khums, the nearest of the naval base under the control of the forces of Gaddafi for the rebel-held city of Misrata, spokesman for the British defence staff Major General John Lorimer said.

"As well as hitting two corvettes in the port, the tornado Force air Royal successfully targeted a facility at the arsenal building fast inflatable boats, which Libyan forces have used several times in their efforts to mine Misrata and attack ships in the area"Lorimer said.""

"The destruction last night of the installation and a important stock of boats will reduce the ability of the regime to support these tactics", he added.

NATO has increased pressure on Gaddafi by hitting several command and control centres in Tripoli these days.

"It has limited ability of Gaddafi to give orders to his forces." It has also limited its freedom of movement. Indeed he went into hiding, "Commander of the wing Mike Bracken of NATO said in Brussels."

In Tripoli, Government spokesman has described as the prediction of Obama "delirium" in a speech Thursday departure of leader Libyan veteran is inevitable.

"Obama is still delusional - he believes that the lies that his own Government and own media across the world", said Ibrahim.

"It is not Obama who decides if Moamer Kadhafi left the Libya or not." It is the Libyan people who decide their future. ?

Obama sent a letter to Congress, seeking political support of us action in the NATO aggression, as he hit a technical period of 60 days to obtain formal approval of the Congress for the use of its powers of war.

The White House maintains that its role in supporting the allies does not merit a formal declaration of war, as required by the US Constitution.

He also said that the action is the kind of governance campaign of 1973 war powers Act requires that any military action plue 60 days to be authorized by the Congress.

But in a letter, said Obama that it would be useful to place if lawmakers supported by a binding resolution to highlight the American support.

Also, the African Union leaders will gather for an extraordinary Summit in Addis Ababa next week to discuss the Libyan conflict, the Organization announced.

Last month, the pan-African body has proposed a truce, but it was rejected by the rebels, who insisted on the departure of Gaddafi.

Pump and the policy on Europe's Obama of the round

WASHINGTON  - President us Barack Obama leaves Sunday on a major European tour mixing pomp, personal history and diplomacy of great power, shaped by the historical uprising that raged across the Arab world.

Obama seeks support for its plan to stimulate democracy after the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt and may face pressure from Europe for a role more robust in the United States in Libya as the Atlantic alliance is updated in an era of new challenges.

President travel lawn ancestral home in the small village of Moneygall in Ireland, basking in the splendour of a State with the Queen of England visit, meet with the leaders of the world at the Summit of the Group of eight to France and visit the Poland.

Despite suggestions Obama prefer Asia to Europe, the President has enlisted several times across the Atlantic and aid say that it is firmly committed to the world most successful continental alliance.

"It's a trip very important for the President to reaffirm our core alliances, in the world (with) our European allies," said Ben Rhodes, a national security advisor Deputy U.S..

Election of Obama, after the Bush years, has been greeted with euphoria in Europe, the two parties may have reason for disappointment in the Presidency of Obama until now.

Europe perhaps has not obtained the President that he hoped, as Obama does not have to close the camp of the "war on terror" in Guantanamo Bay, saw its collapse the climate change initiative and seemed to go to Asia growing for the future of America.

The White House has been frustrated that calls for more troops in the European struggle for the Afghanistan rarely materialized and considered its hopes for the burden sharing more clear wastes as indebted Allied governments reduced military spending.

America and Europe has been working to save the world economy, but differences have emerged as stimulated Obama his return to growth nation, while several European Governments have chosen to austerity.

But unrest in the Arab world - back-Court of Europe and an area of national interest to Washington - and the operation of NATO in Libya, highlighted the importance of the transatlantic alliance.

"Europe is our essential partner based on the values that we share, and we see that all the days that we examine the evolution across the Middle East, said Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, political top European official on the US National Security Council."

Washington wants to revive the transatlantic alliance.

"I think that you will hear much about Europe being the cornerstone of our commitment and a catalyst for global action," said Heather Conley, the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"You will hear a very clear message... that if Marshal will Europe's political and financial resources, it will be part of a broader effort to work on complex issues.

The President will be in Europe for the first time since the daring raid to Pakistan by us, which has killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and polished his letters of credence of Commander in Chief of special forces.

Although the raid applauded the Americans, he was concerned about certain sectors of the European elite, with some commentators questioning why the architect of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 was not brought to justice.

Obama will begin his tour with talks with the President of Ireland Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Ireland Monday.

But the highlight of his visit will be a trip to Moneygall, the village house of his grandfather grand-back-back with his mother, Falmouth Kearney.

On Tuesday, Obama will fly to London and the pomp of a State visit, with two nights at Buckingham Palace and hold talks with Prime Minister David Cameron.

The status of the NATO operation against Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi will be a dominant issue, with both sides eager to show that the conflict, which Washington supports a European lead, is not verging on impasse.

A Western diplomat in Washington "time is not on the side (of the Gaddafi), submitted to travel Obama."

"I believe that the visit of the President and the G8, will show that we have great determination to get this done as soon as possible".

At Westminster Hall, Obama will focus on the two houses of the British Parliament, in a speech distilling his thoughts on the "special relationship" with Britain and its aspirations of cooperation Europe-America.

Thursday, Obama will be leaving London for Deauville (France) and the G8 Summit, which may see leaders to discuss the vacant position of head of the Monetary Fund International, after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Obama seeks European support for its efforts to use economic development to stimulate the Egypt and the Tunisia democracy completely.

He will also meet with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Friday, the President will be travel on in Poland, to discuss plans for a shield of US missile in Europe, which will be the host in part the poles.

Obama and Netanyahu face tense session Mideast

WASHINGTON  - approval of the US President Barack Obama a Palestinian request for a long time on the borders of their future State paves the way for what could be a tense meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who had strained relations with the Obama, headed to Washington saying that the vision of the President of a Palestinian State on the 1967 borders - in its elusive vision for a negotiated peace agreement with the U.S. - could leave "untenable." Israel

The White House talks were never conceived to yield no significant progress to re-launch the long peace talks - deadlocked but now this perspective seemed dimmer than ever.

Obama, in a speech policy Thursday on the "Spring of Arabic" uprisings across the Middle East, has its clearest markers still the compromises that Israel and the Palestinians need to do to resolve their decades-old dispute.

His position includes essentially the Palestinian view that the State, they seek in the West Bank and Gaza should extensively draw along the lines that existed before the war of 1967, in which Israel captured these territories and Jerusalem.

On the eve of the Netanyahu visit, it was seen as a message that Obama expects Israel to finally make big concessions.

"The viability of a Palestinian State cannot come at the expense of the existence of Israel," Netanyahu said in a statement before flying to the United States for his interviews with Obama.

First statement of pure and simple of the Obama of its position on the issue of borders could help the doubts of ease in the Arab world in its commitment to act as an impartial broker.

But the Democratic President quickly came under fire from Republican critics, who accuse him of betraying the Israel, the closest U.S. ally in the region. Pushing Netanyahu risks alienating the base of the Jewish State of support among the American public and Congress as Obama seeks re-election in 2012.

"This approach undermines our special relations with Israel and weakens the ability of our ally to defend themselves, said House Cantor Eric for the Leader of the Republican majority."

ISRAELIS CONFUSED

Taken while Obama also had hard words for the Palestinians, Israeli officials have been particularly aback by its language blunt criticism of "colonization" and its continued occupation of Arab lands.

There was no word on if Netanyahu, who heads a coalition of right-wing, pro-settler, had been warned.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the efforts of Obama renew talks which collapsed last year.

Obama has little to show for his efforts for peace since coming to Office. His last attempt collapsed when it backed that face Israel in the colony in the West Bank.

Despite the tensions, Obama has created three hours for Netanyahu Friday, including a working lunch. Visits could not always smooth, however.

In March of last year, Netanyahu was left cooling his heels, while Obama went to the residence of the White House for dinner with his family, seen as a snub in Israel.

Word of Thursday, Obama said: "we believe that the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the lines of 1967 with mutually agreed swaps" land.

Although this has long been the private Washington view, Obama went further than the American authorities have disappeared in the past, when they described such a solution as a Palestinian aspiration that it includes not only their own.

Obama, in a BBC interview after his speech, said that Israel is "going to have to feel confident about his security" before he is expected to agree on an arrangement of border.

Obama has also delivered messages that will be difficult for the Palestinians to swallow, suggesting their effort to gain membership of a Palestinian State of the Nations United is condemned and that they have much to explain to treat a reconciliation with Hamas, which considers the United States as a terrorist group.

To reassure the Israelis, Obama returned to the safety of Israel and said that any future Palestinian State must be "non-militarized", something Netanyahu demanded.

But he warned of Israel: "the dream of a Jewish and democratic State cannot be filled with permanent occupation."

In a sharp response, Netanyahu said that he expected to "hear a reaffirmation of President Obama of commitments U.S. taken into Israel in 2004" - a reference to a letter the President George w. Bush suggesting the Jewish State can keep blocks of large facility under a peace Pact. "."

Palestinians say settlement expansion is aimed at depriving a viable State and successive US administrations have saved the Jewish State of resolutions of the Security Council of the United Nations condemning such activity.

Departure of the inevitable Libya Gaddafi, Obama says

WASHINGTON/TRIPOLI  - Muammar Gaddafi will inevitably leave power, said the US President Barack Obama, as NATO stepped up its bombing of long weeks of the targets of the Government and said Friday, he sank eight Libyan warships.

Obama was speaking in an address on the Middle East, where a series of Governments in this year of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and has inspired a revolt by three months in Libya which aims to overthrow Gaddafi.

"Time is working against Gaddafi." There is no control on his country. The opposition organized an interim Council legitimate and credible, "Obama said in Washington Thursday.

"When Gaddafi inevitably of leaves or is forced to power, will end decades of provocation and proceed with the transition towards a democratic Libya", he said, defending his decision to take military action against the Government of the Libyan leader.

Secretary General of the NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who said military pressure and political were weakening Gaddafi and would eventually topple him echoed his comments.

The Libyan leader has remained defiant.

"Obama is still delirious," said the spokesman for the Libyan Government Mussa Ibrahim. "He believes the lies that his own Government and media across the world...". It is not Obama who decides if Muammar leaves the Libya or not. It is the Libyan people. ?

Acting under the mandate of the United Nations, allies of NATO, including the France, Britain and the United States are the air strikes whose purpose is to stop Kadhafi using military force against civilians.

The NATO planes sank eight ships of war, in attacks at night on the ports of Tripoli Al Khums and Surt, the alliance said in a statement.

"In view of the increasing use of the naval assets, NATO had no choice but to take decisive action to protect the civilian population of the Libya and NATO forces at sea, said Rear Admiral Russell Harding, Commander Assistant of mission Libyan of NATO."

Libyan officials took journalists to the port of Tripoli, where a small vessel spread of smoke and flames and cast doubt on whether boats targeted by NATO had been involved in the fight against.

Mohammad Ahmad Rashed, General Director of the port of Tripoli, said six ships had been hit by missiles.

Boats, five belonging to the coast guard and a larger ship of war, had been in maintenance since before the beginning of the fighting, he told journalists, adding that the port was still functional and able to handle commercial traffic.

NATO bombs struck in Tripoli, hometown of Sirte Gaddafi and Zlitan is the capital, State TV said late Thursday.

Rebels control eastern Libya and pockets to the West, but the conflict has reached a deadlock as rebels tried to advance the bastion of Kadhafi in Tripoli is at a standstill.

Western Governments, under pressure from skeptical voters, rely on the administration of Gaddafi to collapse.

"We have significantly degraded Gaddafi war machine.". And now, we see the results, the opposition has gained ground, "Rasmussen said at a press conference in the Slovak capital, Bratislava.

"I am confident that a combination of military pressure and increased pressure policy and support for the opposition will be eventually lead to the collapse of the regime."

LIBYA GADDAFI TELEVISION

Libyan State TV showed pictures of Kadhafi meeting a Libyan politician in Tripoli. Government spokesman Ibrahim said that the politician had been in a delegation that met Russian officials in Moscow this week to explore the possibilities of a ceasefire.

Sequences perform a zoom on a television screen in the showroom date of Thursday, displayed in the corner. Gaddafi was wearing a Brown dress with a hat and sunglasses.

Kadhafi was the last time on 11 may, when State TV showed him the tribal leaders for meeting in Tripoli. NATO bombarded his compound the following day and a day later TV broadcast a clip in which he mocked NATO and said that the alliance could not kill.

The last few days have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity focusing on a possible cease-fire agreement.

But the Western powers are likely to emphasize their determination to maintain pressure on Kadhafi when heads of State of the Group of eight industrialized nations meet on 27 and 28 May.

An attempt to put pressure on Tripoli, the EU is hardening of sanctions by blacklisting some ports Libyan to prevent oil exports and imports of fuel, a Western diplomatic source told Reuters.

Obama to offer relief of debt in Egypt in the speech Mideast

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will present a programme of economic assistance of the Egypt and the Tunisia, on Thursday in a broad effort to support democratic reforms in the Middle East and representatives of the North Africa, the United States, said.

Senior advisors to Obama overview of parts of his speech, said Wednesday that in the United States would bring the debt relief for a total of approximately 1 billion dollars "for a few years" in Egypt through a debt swap mechanism which would be to invest money to stimulate the employment of young people and support entrepreneurs.

Washington would also loan or guarantee loans to a total of $ 1 billion through the Overseas Private Investment Corp (CIPO) for the Egypt to fund the development of infrastructure and stimulating jobs, officials told reporters in a conference call.

Billions of dollars in additional funding would come from multilateral banks for development as well.

Administration seeks also to foster trade and economic development throughout the region and encourage private sector investment, officials said.

"We believe that these initiatives will help the Egypt and the Tunisia as they undertake the twin challenges of economic transformation and democratisation," said an official.

Officials avoided a question on the issue of whether the debt relief was enough.

"Egypt has, in my view, a very good perspective of access to private capital markets and it is important to future economic dynamism of the Egypt, and it is something that we know that the economic leaders in Egypt want to strengthen," an official said when asked why the country's total debt is not cancelled.

In his speech greatly expected Thursday, Obama is designed to present a coherent approach to deal with the turmoil that swept the region and the decades interspersed with American policy unprecedented.

Part of this approach include stimulating economic fundamentals to stimulate democratic reform.

"... "We know our study of the past that a successful transition to democracy depend in part on strong foundations for prosperity, and to strengthen economic growth is an important means of strengthening a democratic transition," an official said.

PUSH ECONOMIC

The United States would form "Egyptian-American, and Tunisian-American Enterprise Fund" to promote private sector investment, the White House said in a statement laying down some of its proposals.

Washington also works with the allies to reorient the European Bank for Reconstruction and development support the Middle East region and North Africa, just as he helped the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

US authorities are concerned about the Economic Outlook in Egypt and Tunisia, after the democratic revolutions swept away long-autocratic decision.

Growth forecasts have been revised downward by 1% in Egypt and the growth of gross domestic product in Tunisia should be close to zero this year, the White House said.

The White House wishes to send a message to other countries in the region that they, too, could benefit from economic support if they are pursuing a democratic path.

"... Part of the objective of this economic program aims to strengthen not only positive changes in Egypt and the Tunisia, but a positive model that can empower and encourage democratic change and economic reforms in other parts of the region""an official said."

Obama speaks of Libya with the Emir of Kuwait

WASHINGTON  - President Barack Obama thanked the Kuwait Emir of the oil-rich country for "generous pledge" $ 180 million in the Libyan opposition, the National Council of transition.

Obama speaks by telephone with Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al - Sabah Friday and also thanked him for turning the "unwavering support" of Kuwait, US troops, the White House said in a statement.

"The President thanked the Emir generous pledge of the Kuwait of the National Council of the Libya transition assistance and stressed the importance of financial support required to their urgent needs into account opposition, the Declaration.

Kuwait April 24, announced the pledge of "urgent humanitarian aid" Libyan civilians, through the national Council.

During this time, world powers on Thursday agreed to take advantage of the frozen assets of leader Libyan Moamer Kadhafi abroad to provide vital emergency assistance to the rebels. Regime of Kadhafi Friday called the plan "piracy".

The White House said emir Obama and the Kuwait also "renewed their commitment to build on the historical links between the United States and Kuwait.".

In the United States led the military assault that liberated the Kuwait in 1991, after the Iraq invaded its smaller neighbor.

President Obama: Ben Laden died a "new phase".

President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden as an important step in the war against al-Qaeda and "justice" for the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11 almost 3,000.

Obama, said the operation Sunday afternoon in northwest of that Pakistan is the result of "years of meticulous work" by intelligence agencies giving new clues the comings and goings of Osama bin Laden since last summer.

"I have met on several occasions my national security team we have developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding in deep compound inside Pakistan," Obama said in a speech to the East Room of the White House Sunday night.

"Finally, last week I determined that we had enough intelligence to take measures and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," Obama said.

A senior administration official said key members of the national security team met in the White House situation room at 1 p.m. Sunday which was carried out on the ground by a small group of Seal to monitor the operation.

Almost three hours later, Obama was informed that the bodies of Osama bin Laden had been tentatively identified. The identity was confirmed later, probably through DNA testing.

"Today, in my view, the United States launched an operation targeted against this compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan" Obama said. "A small team of Americans conducted operation with extraordinary courage and ability." No Americans have been infringed. They take care to avoid civilian casualties. After an exchange of fire, they killed Osama bin Laden and took care of his body.

The 40-minute operation was a raid launched from the Afghanistan helicopter. A helicopter had a mechanical failure and was to be destroyed in the mission, an official said. No Americans have been injured or killed.

Officials have said that at least three other people were killed outside Ben Laden, two of his letters and one of his adult sons.

Tensions were high within said sources of administration White House situation room as the raid began to take place. But the atmosphere is moved quickly to the jubilation once the helicopter back safely to Afghanistan.

Body of Osama bin Laden is managed according to the tradition and Islamic practice, said a senior administration official. It should be in his speech, the President invoked the memory and imaging of the attacks of September 11 and the "gaping hole in our hearts" which led to the international manhunt for bin Laden nearly a decade earlier.

The President said the assassination of bin Laden would resound around the world with people who are opposed terrorism, and noted that the United States did not target bin Laden because of his faith.

"The United States is not at war with Islam," said Obama, echoing a phrase also used by his predecessor George w. Bush. "Bin laden was not a Muslim leader." It was a mass murderer of Muslims.

"His disappearance should be welcomed by all those who believe in peace and dignity," said Obama.

The President has said that development shows resolve to uphold justice and would be particularly useful for the families of the victims of America.

"We will be relentless in our defence of our citizens and our friends and allies," said Obama. "And the evening such as this, we can say to the families who have lost their dear to al-Qaeda terror: justice has been done.".