Bin Laden leaks: Has The U.S. Said Too Much About the Navy SEALs and the Osama Raid? Source: SEALs wore helmet-mounted cameras in bin Laden raid. The U.S. military is reviewing footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, a military official says. NEW: Audio message recorded by bin Laden days before his death, official saysU.S. Navy SEALs found porn at bin Laden compoundOfficial confident that SEALs' families can be protected amid safety concernsBin Laden apparently had a support system in Pakistan, U.S. officials say (CNN) -- Members of the U.S. Navy SEAL team that attacked Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound were wearing helmet-mounted digital cameras that recorded the mission, a U.S. military official told CNN Friday.
The official described the digital recording as hazy, fast-moving and subject to poor lighting in the rooms. "This is not movie-quality stuff," the source said. The revelation of the digital video was among a series of developments Friday in the wake of bin Laden's death, including word that U.S. intelligence officers, along with Pakistanis, interviewed three of his widows and found them "hostile.
" Adm. Afghanistan: April 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Nearly ten years ago, when Bin Laden and his supporters launched the attacks of September 11th, the U.S. and Britain responded with Operation Enduring Freedom in October, 2001 -- a campaign which continues to this day with nearly 140,000 coalition troops in Afghanistan. It remains to be seen if the recent killing of Osama Bin Laden will have any immediate effect on the situation in Afghanistan, but security has been tightened at coalition bases throughout the region. The Taliban has promised a new Spring offensive soon, as the weather warms and Afghanistan's "fighting season" gets underway.
Insurgent attacks across the country, large and small, continue at the rate of about 30 per day, an increase from last year. NATO leaders have endorsed a target withdrawal date of 2014, with a handover to Afghan forces beginning next year. Gathered here are images from the ongoing conflict over the past month, part of an ongoing monthly series on Afghanistan. [39 photos] Click to view image U.S. U.S. Photoshop : Clinton effacée (NY Daily News) Bin Laden directed Qaeda from Pakistan compound.
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Compound Where Osama Bin Laden Was Killed. Le Pentagone diffuse des videos de Ben Laden. Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death. Mais ou est donc passe ben laden? Video Best of Ben Laden - drole, comique humour, guignol. Les Guignols de l'info - Les Guignols de l'Info - 02/05/11.
Osama Bin Laden dead: How Obama's focused pursuit paid off. - By John Dickerson. At approximately 11:30 p.m. Sunday, President Obama announced to the nation that on his orders U.S forces had killed Osama Bin Laden. His reputation for lawyerly inaction may never recover. Obama's critics have said that he is a weak leader in general and in particular does not understand what must be done to combat terrorism. "They are very much giving up that center of attention and focus that's required," said former Vice President Dick Cheney in March 2009, in a typical remark. Yet what emerges from the details of Bin Laden's killing (offered, like the heroic accounts of the Bush years, entirely by officials who work for the sitting president) is that from early in his administration Obama was focused on killing Osama Bin Laden and that he was involved in the process throughout.
In June 2009, Obama directed his CIA director to "provide me within 30 days a detailed operation plan for locating and bringing to justice" Osama Bin Laden. The assault team arrived by helicopter. Executer Ben Laden c'est choisir l'oubli (confortable) Wikileaks says US knew of Abbottabad lair from 2008. Wikileaks says US knew of Abbottabad lair from 2008 The United States probably knew by 2008 about Osama bin Laden’s lair in Abbottabad, according to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks on Monday, quoting from a leaked US cable. The document contained notes on the interrogation of a Libyan, Abu al-Libi, who was in detention at Guantanamo on Cuba and said he had been appointed as a bin Laden messenger in 2003 to be based in Abbottabad.
“In July 2003, detainee received a letter from (Osama bin Laden’s) designated courier, Maulawi Abd al-Khaliq Jan, requesting detainee take on the responsibility of collecting donations, organizing travel and distributing funds for families in Pakistan. “(Osama bin Laden) stated detainee would be the official messenger between (Osama bin Laden) and others in Pakistan. In mid-2003, detainee moved his family to Abbottabad (Pakistan) and worked between Abbottabad and Peshawar.” Wikileaks disclosed the reference on Twitter.
Osama Bin Laden Killed, Obama Hails Moment of ‘Justice’ | Swampland. Updated at 2:30 a.m. Nearly 10 years after he launched the deadliest domestic attack in U.S. history, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces. Late Sunday evening, President Barack Obama addressed the American people from the White House while Vice President Joseph Biden called congressional leaders to inform them of the news. “Justice has been done,” Obama said. Bin Laden’s death marks a long-awaited victory for the U.S. and its allies: for the families of nearly 3,000 victims killed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on Sept.11, 2001, and for the military and intelligence forces that hunted him in the years since.
Massive crowds gathered outside the White House on Sunday night, singing the national anthem in a celebration that quickly spread nationwide. In his statement to the country, Obama said the operation showed that “America can do whatever we set our minds to. Midshipmen At The Naval Academy Celebrate The Bin Laden News... Bin Laden's Death Being Used To Spread Malware. Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is dead and vows revenge.
Al-Qaeda data yields details of planned plots. There was no evidence that the plot ever advanced beyond the conceptual stage, the officials stressed. Other gleanings from the roughly 100 pieces of computer gear seized Sunday included possible leads on the whereabouts of other senior al-Qaeda leaders. While intelligence officials declined to comment on specific tips, a key congressional leader briefed on the findings suggested that the search for al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader was in a newly active phase. “We have lots of information on him,” said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee. “I can’t say it’s imminent, but I do believe we’re hot on the trail.”
Rogers predicted that the intelligence leads from the bin Laden raid are “going to be a good for the global war on terrorism in the months ahead.” “Other leaders of al-Qaeda should be concerned,” said the official, who agreed to discuss the ongoing operation on the condition of anonymity. Staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report. Disney Trademarks “Seal Team 6″ - FishbowlNY. Pakistan warns against further raids inside its soil. Bin Laden Ignored Own "Hiding Places" Rules. MAY 2--While an al Qaeda training manual offered tips on “hiding places” for jihadists on the run, Osama bin Laden appears to have ignored a couple of his own suggestions when it came to hitting the mattresses.
The terrorism manual, "Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants," was seized during a raid on the Manchester, England home of a bin Laden follower. An English translation of the 180-page Arabic document was prepared by federal investigators. The manual’s “Fourth Lesson,” seen here, addressed “Apartments--Hiding Places” for disciples of the al Qaeda leader. Bin Laden was killed yesterday when U.S. forces stormed his walled compound outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. The residence (pictured at right) was built several years ago in the Bilal Town development, about two miles from the center of Abbottabad. The terror manual notes that it is preferable to live in apartments or houses “in newly developed areas where people do not know one another. Here’s the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden.
Yesterday Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual on Twitter) was just “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains”, specifically Abbottabad, northern Pakistan. The IT contractor and graduate of Preston University also says he’s a ‘startup specialist’ on his LinkedIn profile, but now owns a coffee shop. But today he will become known as the guy who, while live-tweeting a series of helicopter flypasts and explosion, unwittingly covered the US forces helicopter raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound.
And he knows it. Here’s a selection of his Tweets: (To get them in order, read from the bottom). [Update: Meanwhile somewhere in the vicinity @m0hcin was around too.] UPDATE: A nice timeline of Sohaib Athar’s tweets are also here. Bin Laden Aides Are Said to Have Bought Bulk Orders of Pepsi, Coke. The two polite Pakistanis who helped Osama bin Laden hide in the shadow of their country’s army bought bulk food orders, chose major brands and equally favored Pepsi and Coke, neighbors and a local shopkeeper said. The men called themselves Akbar and Rashid Khan and they owned the fortified home where U.S. commandos killed bin Laden in an early morning raid May 2. They did the daily shopping in the Pashtu-language accents of Waziristan, a region on the Afghan border, said grocer Anjum Qaisar, 27, who works 150 meters from the compound.
Bin Laden’s men “never came by foot, they always drove a Pajero or a little Suzuki van, and they bought enough food for 10 people,” Qaisar said in an interview yesterday. “I was curious about why they bought so much food, but I did not want to be rude by asking” such a personal question, Qaisar said. Support Network ‘Best Brands’ With Pakistani troops and police guarding the streets, Qaisar was one of few merchants open for business yesterday.
Tora Bora. Bin Laden Said to Be Intent on Killing Obama. Osama bin Laden was “pulling the levers” of al-Qaeda and wanted to target senior U.S. officials, said Attorney General Eric Holder. Intelligence collected by U.S. Navy SEALs from their raid on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan indicates that President Barack Obama was among those bin Laden wanted to kill, said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. The U.S. is continuing to review intelligence collected by the SEALs, who killed the al-Qaeda leader, Holder said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “We’re still in the process of going through this material to get a better sense of what it is we might expect in the short term and over the long term,” the attorney general said.
U.S. authorities also have questioned bin Laden’s wives as part of their investigation, said a second U.S. official who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Close Open Source:Ausaf News Paperf/AFP/Getty Images. Quelle théorie du complot choisir ? - L’actu en patates - Blog LeMonde.fr. Roland Dumas: Wody Allen ou Ben Laden ? [Fun] FAF 040511 Durand - une vidéo Actu et Politique. Ben Laden plantait-il du cannabis pour tuer le temps? Enfin! Dix ans après le 11 Septembre, les stups américains tiennent leur preuve ultime: trafic de drogues et terrorisme sont bien indissociables.
Comment en est-on arrivé à cette brillante conclusion? Les reporters ont trouvé des pieds de marijuana à l’extérieur du complexe d’Oussama Ben Laden à Abbottabad! Peter Oborne, du Daily Telegraph, note ainsi: « La résidence des Khan [les hôtes d'Oussama] est entourée par des champs de tomates, de blé, de choux et de choux-fleur cultivés de main de maître. Evidemment, on pourrait se dire que planter de l’herbe devant sa maison n’est pas exactement le meilleur moyen de passer inaperçu, mais c’est oublier que nous sommes au Pakistan, qui produirait, selon les chiffres peu fiables en la matière de l’ONU, 5% du cannabis mondial.
Mais revenons-en à l’essentiel: le narco-terrorisme. Comme le rapporte Laniel, moins d’un mois après les attentats de New York, l’administrateur de la DEA, Asa Hutchinson, affirme devant le Sénat: Et son discours porte. Aviation Geeks Scramble to ID bin Laden Raid’s Mystery Copter | Danger Room. Updated 8:33 p.m, May 4 The May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s luxury compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, had it all: painstaking intelligence-gathering, a heroic Navy SEAL assault team, satellite and drone surveillance, and biometric forensics. And now this: a possible super-secret, stealthy helicopter, unknown to the wider world before one crashed during the assault. Aviation specialists are picking apart pixel-by-pixel the dozen-or-so photos of the copter that have appeared online.
They’re assembling digital mock-ups of the aircraft and comparing them to lost stealth designs of the 1980s and ’90s. Speculation abounds, and so far no one from the government is commenting. Opinions about the copter seem to fall into three basic camps. Considering the proliferation of bewildering photos from the crash site, the conservative viewpoint seems unlikely. A story by ace reporter Sean Naylor in Army Times, published just minutes after the initial version of this post, supports this conclusion.