Going over some of the newer details about the U.S. operation to take out Osama Bin Laden [OBL or UBL] here are a few answers, none from official sources: A.) Question: Did they, or did they not, see the kill? President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser John Brenner said to journalists on Monday afternoon/evening — not even [...]
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There are now reports that Osama/Usama Bin Laden’s wife was wounded, not killed, in the U.S. raid that killed him [and that another woman was wounded as well]. What happened to her, and to any others wounded, or simply present, inside the compound? Apparently, the U.S. special forces [Navy Seals???] took “computers” from the compound [...]
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The transcript of the White House briefing, about 20 hours after Osama Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by American special forces, is now posted online here. President Obama’s counterterrorism Adviser John Brenner said to journalists this afternoon/evening that President Obama and his advisers watched the American operation that killed Ben Laden “in real time”, [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Human Rights, International Law, Pakistan, USA
Is the “War on Terror” now over? Can we go back to life the way it was before? Because, for sure, there’s no way to ask any questions about this. [Though, there are probably videos that will be shown later...] U.S. President Obama said it was a “targetted operation”… which “took care to avoid civilian [...]
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Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born refugee with British residency, was released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba — and put on a chartered plane heading to a British military base in the early morning today. He is being accompanied on the flight “by officers from the Metropolitan Police Counter-terrorism Command, a uniformed police escort [...]
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Agence France Presse has reported this afternoon that Benazir’s husband refused an autopsy, but wants a Hariri-style UN/international investigation into her killing: “Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari, demanded a United Nations probe into her assassination along the lines of the world body’s probe of the killing of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. ‘We demand [...]
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Matthew Lee described on his Inner City Press blog the negotiations conducted by the president of the UN Security Council before the statement issued concerning Benazir Bhutto’s assassination: “In the hours after Benazir Bhutto was killed, the 15 members of the UN Security Council negotiated and agreed to a Presidential Statement of condemnation. A sixteenth [...]
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The AP had a fuller version of comments quoted yesterday from Bhutto’s spokeswoman Sherry Rehman, who had been with Benazir when she was shot and rode with her as she was rushed to the hospital: “She was bleeding profusely, as she had received a bullet wound in her neck. My car was full of blood. [...]
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Juan Cole has posted his comments comparing the reactions to Benazir Bhutto’s assassination by two American Democratic candidates for President, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, on his blog, Informed Comment, today — starting with Hillary Clinton’s comments in her interview Friday with Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s Situation Room: “I don’t think the Pakistani government at [...]
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What more can be said about Benazir’s death? The statement that she died by hitting her head on the sunroof of her car is preposterous. Yesterday, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported that Benazir died from a severe wound to her left temple, from which brain matter was oozing. The American television network, ABC, showed video (now [...]
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