Al-Qaida 2.0. - Prières pour Oussama ben Laden à Djakarta REUTERS/Beawiharta Beawiharta - Les capacités et les contours de la nouvelle version d'al-Qaida qui vient de voir le jour avec la disparition de son fondateur et héros Oussama ben Laden sont encore floues. Mais elle sera très différente de la version précédente. Elle est, en outre, confrontée à de nouveaux défis stratégiques, qui ont bien peu à voir avec ceux de l’organisation que Ben Laden a fondée en 1988. Et ce, bien que les spectaculaires attentats contre les tours jumelles aient été perpétrés au cours de ce siècle. Malgré la mort du «chef» d’al-Qaida, les idées et les circonstances qui ont façonné l’homme et son organisation terroriste appartiennent au 20ème siècle. publicité A l’origine, al-Qaida était une organisation opérationnelle qui, même si elle reposait sur des cellules indépendantes, maintenait un important degré de centralisation.
Non, la «vieille» al-Qaida n’a pas disparu pour autant. Moíses Naím Traduit par Micha Cziffra. Foursquare Users Check In To Post-Osama Bin Laden World. Sohaib Athar Captures Osama Bin Laden Raid On Twitter. By Reed Stevenson DUBAI - (Reuters) - In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on his Twitter account that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, saying he hoped "its not the start of something nasty. " A few hours later Athar posted another tweet: "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. " In the age of Twitter, perhaps it's no surprise that the first signs of the U.S. operation that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden were noticed by an IT consultant awake late at night. Athar, a resident of Abbottabad where bin Laden was holed up, first noticed a helicopter and thought it unusual enough to post this on his Twitter account.
"Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)," wrote Athar. "I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected," said one of Athar's followers. Athar did not respond to a request by Reuters for comment. 'Osama Bin Laden Is Dead' Facebook Page Goes Viral. A Facebook page called " Osama Bin Laden Is Dead " went viral in the hours after President Barack Obama announced his death . More than 307,000 people joined the group less than 12 hours after the news was revealed. "It's official now, I just saw Osama Bin Laden's status and he has "checked in" to Hell," wrote member Wendy Tuttle on the group's wall.
Heather Zinninger Cummins zinged, "Osama Bin Laden changed his name to Osama Bin Gotten! " Many people wrote passionate messages about his role in 9/11 and other bombings. "I only wish we could bring him back to life so we can kill him again for every person he killed," Matthew Mustain wrote. "They should have shot him 3,000 + times for each victim in 9/11 then said... Some people warned not to get too happy about Bin Laden's death. "You do realize that this is NOT over by a long shot..there's gonna be a retaliation!
Yahoo Searches for Osama Bin Laden Spiked 98,550% on Sunday [STATS] The death of Osama bin Laden has sparked interest not only in the details of his demise, but also Pakistan, September 11 and American flags, search traffic on Yahoo suggests. Yahoo reports that searches for "Osama Bin Laden" spiked 98,550% Sunday evening, compared to Saturday (see the bar all the way on the right border of the graph), while searches for "September 11th" spiked 1,009% and searches for "Pakistan Map" spiked 2,594%. For comparison's sake, consider that Pippa Middleton's royal wedding debut caused a meager 303% spike in Yahoo search queries for her name. Some other interesting tidbits from Yahoo's search data: Osama bin Laden's Death Sets Twitter Record. Bin Laden's Death Sparks Record 12.4 Million Tweets Per Hour [STATS] Osama Bin Laden’s Death Leaked on Twitter. News organizations were given a heads up around 9:45 p.m. ET that President Obama was going to make a big announcement about 45 minutes later.
But it seems that the person who actually made the announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces was Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, via his Twitter account. “So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn," Urbahn tweeted at 10:25 p.m. ET. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams -- the first broadcast evening-news anchor to appear on TV screens -- told the Times that some journalists had received an e-mail saying only: "Get to work. " But following Urbahn’s tweet, anonymous sources at the Pentagon and White House also began to leak the information of Bin Laden’s death, which Obama didn't confirm on the air until 11:35 p.m.
He later called himself, "the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it. " Timeline: How News of Osama Bin Laden’s Death Unfolded on Twitter.