Showing posts with label revenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Lament revenge in Libya after NATO strike (AP)


TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan shouting for revenge his anti-aircraft fire thundering second youngest son of buried Muammar Gaddafi Monday, as in South Africa warned that the NATO bombing that killed would bring only more violence.


Leader of the Libya did not attend the tumultuous funeral of 29 years Seif al-Arab, but more former brothers Seif el-Islam and Mohammed paid their respect, inhabited by a crowd of several thousand. Jostled to get closer to the coffin, draped with a flag Libyan green, lament flashed signs of victory and chanted "Revenge, revenge for you, Libya."


Also, three grandchildren of Gaddafi, a child and two toddlers died in attack on Saturday, which said NATO targeted a centres of command and control of the regime. Gaddafi and his wife were in the compound at the time, but officials free, Libyan escaped have said, accusing the alliance of trying to assassinate the Libyan leader.


Responsible for NATO have denied that they are hunting Gaddafi to break the stalemate in the field of battle between troops and rebels trying for the past of Gaddafi 10 weeks to unseat him. Rebels control most part eastern Libya, while Gaddafi was hooked to a large part of the West, including the capital, Tripoli.


Battles have raged in Misrata, a besieged city of holding of rebels in the West of the Libya, which was bombed by Libyan forces every day in recent weeks. Hospital records showed that at least eight people were killed and 54 wounded in shelling Monday which lasted throughout the morning and during a brief period in the afternoon.


Rebels have requested several times on NATO to use firepower more against Libyan troops. "We call the world to treat al-Gaddafi, as they dealt with bin Laden," said Dr. Misrata, referring to the assassination of the brain of terror Osama bin Laden to Pakistan by US forces Monday at the start. Only, the doctor gave his first name Aiman, for fear of reprisals.


Under the mandate of the United Nations, NATO's role is to protect Libyan civilians, but the international community has increasingly disagree on which implies. Western political leaders have called for overthrow of Kadhafi, which prompted the warnings of the Russia, China and others that regime change should not be the objective of the campaign of attacks NATO, now in its second month.


In response to the attack of compound Gaddafi, South Africa said Monday that "attacks on leaders and officials cannot that lead to escalation of tensions and conflicts on all sides and make future difficult reconciliation." Sunday, the Russia has accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force" and called for an immediate ceasefire.


South Africa has tried to mediate between Gaddafi and the rebels, proposes a ceasefire and dialogue. Rebel leaders have said they will lay only weapons once Gaddafi and his family leave, but Kadhafi has refused.


Since the beginning of the fighting in mid-February, the Gadhafis have made only rare public appearances.


In funeral Monday, Gaddafi two son Seif el-Islam and Mohammed are surrounded by a crowd of people who bore the coffin to a neglected cemetery, dusty where weeds and Thistles grew up in slabs of stone marking the graves. From several positions near the cemetery sustained anti-aircraft fire erupted for several minutes.


Seif el-Islam, considered until recently by the West as a supporter of reform, stood in the freshly dug falls as the body of his brother withdrew the coffin, wrapped in a white burial shroud and descends into the ground. Seif el-Islam was dressed in traditional Libyan costume, with a black hat and a black jacket on a white shirt for a long time.


About 100 meters (yards), small tombs were dug for the grandchildren of Gaddafi, killed in the attack.


The attack has not deterred Gaddafi to follow its attacks against the third largest city of the Libya, Misrata with 300,000 people. Monday, Misrata, including its port, for several hours, the forces of system deployed on the outskirts of the town bombed and doctors said 12 people were injured.


Hundreds were killed in Misrata in two months of siege by Libyan troops.


These days, Gaddafi forces tried to close access to the port, lifeline of the city. Last week, the NATO ships detected the forces of Gaddafi, then they tried to ask Misrata harbor approaches Ocean mines.


Two of the mines of the sea was tethered on the seafloor and were destroyed, but a third mine broke free and drifted off before the minesweepers arrived. The alliance said its ships of mine clearance have been compensation of Misrata harbor Monday approaches to ensure, there was no naval mines left in surrounding waters.


In Misrata, residents are faced with difficulties, growth said Aiman, the physician of the hospital.

He said that most of the inhabitants are hosting to other families who have fled the bombing. The doctor said that he and his brother host a total of five families with more than 45 people, including 25 children. Almost half of the city has no electricity, he said. People have resorted to the groundwater wells.

Disorders have prompted the UN to withdraw its international staff from Tripoli. Vandals burned British and Italian embassies and an Office of the UN on Sunday.

Turkey - a member of NATO which was an intermediary for the United States, Great Britain and Italy - temporarily closed its Embassy in the capital Libyan and sent his staff in nearby Tunisia due to the deterioration of security, said the Minister for Foreign AffairsAhmet Davutoglu. The Turkish Consulate in Benghazi controlled by the rebels, Libya, remains open.

Egypt, meanwhile, sent its first official delegation in Libya to meet with representatives of the Government in Tripoli as well as to rebel representatives of Benghazi in an attempt to "protect innocent civilians and stop the bloodshed," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Menha Bakhoumsaid Monday without developing.






Monday, May 2, 2011

After Ben Laden, Europe should prepare for revenge? (Time.com)

The dramatic announcement of death may 1 of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden came too late for most of the Europeans to hear about it in real time. But by the early hours of Monday morning, ordinary citizens and officials in Europe to protect against terror strikes were in full debate about how the murder of Ben Laden could change the activity and the determination of jihadist plotting to strike anywhere in the world.


Perhaps is not surprising that most experts say death of the charismatic leader represents a symbolic blow to extremists wanted for him - and responsible for survivors of al-Qaeda in the region of the Afghanistan and Pakistan with a real challenge on how they operate there in his absence. But analysts add that he probably does not change the mechanics of Islamist terror threatens the world today. (See obituary time on Ben Laden).


"" It is likely to have the greatest direct impact to the upper echelons of the command of al-Qaeda, which will create more problems for its leaders ride very spectacular, complex and well organised attacks around the world following the attacks of September 11 ".says an official of European security which works in close collaboration with the intelligence services. "But the vast majority of plots or strikes that see us in the world [these days] is the type produced by small cells of local cooperatives, contacts with al-Qaeda [in the Pakistani border region] are minimal - usually with medium-level characters.or even not at all. "The death of Osama bin Laden can have an emotional impact in the short term on these distant extremists, but that do not alter the manner in which they operate."


A French official of fight against terrorism is in agreement. "Ben Laden was more effective in projecting the ideology of separate al-Qaeda, and disparate radical Assembly on what extremists consider its unique moral authority," he commented. "Who went now and with it the dedication with which jihadi organizations around the world swore their allegiance." None of those will turn its back on al-Qaeda or stop using terrorism as the main arm in their fight. "But there is no single leader will all seek and devote their efforts to, which represents a real change." (See "remember 9/11: the evolution of Ground Zero.")


Yet, the official said it is a largely symbolic and psychological factor. He noted that al-Qaeda has never been as centralized and structured as many people will once believed. The functioning of its followers and supporters around the world - and - in Europe became more independent, especially since the military operation led by NATO and forced to Qaeda al - out his former Afghan refuge to refuge in Pakistan. In recent years, say experts, the standard cell of terror in Europe has evolved to become smaller, often self-constituted and usually gets minimal advice or direction of mentors in Southeast Asia. In some cases, a member of the single cell may have obtained all the training and education required during a visit to Pakistan and relies on the Mount of plots over time when it is returned.


This seems to be the case with a trio of suspects arrested in Germany on 29 April they were allegedly preparing test homemade explosives for planned attack. Three men - one of the who had received training in a camp of al-Qaeda - last year in Pakistan had been under police surveillance for six months and had allegedly discussed targeting of public transport in a strike. Scores of cells that have staged attacks or been thwarted in Europe drawing over the last decade share similar profiles - and most received direct assistance limited to al-Qaeda or radical directly linked to it.


Another example is the three extremists suspected arrested in Norway in July 2010 on the suspicion that they intended to make bombs for use on indeterminate targets abroad. This group was in contact with a leader of al-Qaeda since killed in Pakistan. That the leader had developed plots similar bombing in motion - a Manchester, England and another of the New York subway that has been busted in 2009 - in a trio of planned strikes to operate independently one another and with little other directives beyond his initial instructions. Most cells, authorities say, have even these comments of high-level al-Qaeda.


"Al-Qaeda is essential as a source of inspiration - and, sometimes, with the formation and direction, says French official." "" But what the radicals in Europe and elsewhere in the world are finding and the use of the resources of the indoctrination and terror on the internet today are more dangerous to us than what came them from Pakistan, much less than bin Laden or his circle of commanders. ?


Again, the staff of Osama bin Laden force as a symbolic figure and inspiration of fans, including many of those who is never became active in the Jihad, raises the risk that some of those who can now find a sufficient motivation in his death to vengeance for her through the attacks. However, this factor of revenge is probably not a game changer, some suggest. (See the photos of the offensive by the US Marines in Afghanistan).


"This is a concern, but I would say if you're involved in, or even to consider in the first violent jihad place, having one more excuse to justify that with will not change much,", explains the European official. "With the 10 years since September 11 on the horizon and other factors also imminent, we have already entered a period quite tense for possible terrorism prior to the assassination of Osama bin Laden." His death adds a bit of this tension, but not a large part. In addition, if someone who had been decided the attacker is now even more eager to do so, it might be the emotion extra and fury that will make them a little more vulnerable to tipping their hand. ?