U.S President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden has officially been killed by the US forces last night in a small speech about that big operation , the most expensive operation to hunt down one person in history I suppose !!
A team of U.S. Navy seals with the help of “Surgical” U.S. helicopter stormed the Bin Laden’s compound in the Pakistani city Abbottabad “the most famous city in the world today” after receiving orders from Obama. Their operation was not to capture Bin Laden but to kill. After some clash with the Ben Laden’s guards , they captured Bin Laden or rather killed him and then possessed the body to make sure it is his. Other than Ben Laden , 3 men were killed including Osama’s son and two guards , two women allegedly used as human shields were injured while another woman “Allegedly Bin Laden’s wife” was killed as well. No American was harmed in the process.
The U.S. officials claimed that Bin Laden was prepared for burial according Islamic traditions and rituals and that he was buried in the sea !!! Here is a video from Pakistani Geo TV showing the fires resulted from the raid last night
According to Daily Telegraph , this is the Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad
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Here is a photo gallery for coupe of photos from Getty images and Reuters showing the compound at the World City of the day.
Here is another photo for the compound in Abbottabad by a friend of the blogger who live blogged the Bin Laden raid without knowing it.
Suhaib Ather has become the world blogger/tweep of the day with his coverage to the raid without knowing it. Ather shared with the world a photo from the city away from the raid and it seems to me a beautiful city.
Ironically this photo reminds with the scenes of the mid west cities and towns in the States !! Speaking about the States , I saw the videos of the celebrations yesterday following the announcement reminded me with the celebrations of February 11,2011 so much.
According to Robert Fisk , the MENA veteran correspondent who sat with #OBL 3 times the American celebrations are meaningless now , the Arab spring revolutions are much more important.
There are lot of questions surrounding this operation :
People online have mixed reactions , of course we Egyptians are busy with our homeland jazz so are the Libyans and Syrians , yet we did not forget that accordingly Al Qaeda no.1 now is none other the Maadi boy Ayman El-Zahawary whose own brother had been released after years in jail then was re-arrested again. There is a lot of anticipation worldwide and Egypt is not exceptional.
Despite the American president’s speech and the announcement that the US forces verified the body as Ben Laden’s using DNA , the DNA results have not yet been announced according to CNN’s sources.
President Obama on death of Osama bin Laden
The U.S. officials claimed that Bin Laden was prepared for burial according Islamic traditions and rituals and that he was buried in the sea !!! Here is a video from Pakistani Geo TV showing the fires resulted from the raid last night
Geo TV- Osama Bin Laden raid
View Osama bin Laden is dead in a larger map
Here is a photo gallery for coupe of photos from Getty images and Reuters showing the compound at the World City of the day.
Here is another photo for the compound in Abbottabad by a friend of the blogger who live blogged the Bin Laden raid without knowing it.
Suhaib Ather has become the world blogger/tweep of the day with his coverage to the raid without knowing it. Ather shared with the world a photo from the city away from the raid and it seems to me a beautiful city.
Ironically this photo reminds with the scenes of the mid west cities and towns in the States !! Speaking about the States , I saw the videos of the celebrations yesterday following the announcement reminded me with the celebrations of February 11,2011 so much.
According to Robert Fisk , the MENA veteran correspondent who sat with #OBL 3 times the American celebrations are meaningless now , the Arab spring revolutions are much more important.
There are lot of questions surrounding this operation :
- According to Obama , the US located Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan last August , then why they chose yesterday in particular to launch this operation against him !? Obama needed a political triumph during that time if I am not mistaken.
- Why did not the navy seals capture him alive !? The information this man knows are too damn valuable , yes the official story says that he resisted .. blah blah blah. Still I do not understand that you can use tranquilizers to make him sleep and transfer in to another place so he would open his eyes to find himself in front of a court. Some people began already to argue that this is against human rights and that Bin Lade should have treated as POW.
- Why did they really throw him to the Sea ? They even claimed that they buried him in the sea !? what burial sea !? Abbottabad is closed city away from any sea !? It is not from Islamic traditions or rituals to bury someone in the sea or throw his body in the sea. Muslim Clerics worldwide questioned this burial above them the Sheikh of El Azhar Ahmed El-Tiyab who openly criticized the burial. “ It would not have happened during the Mubarak era”
- It is not about the Islamic ritual but about the fact we need to see the body to make sure that he is dead. Of course we found a silly justification from the Americans and the Pakistanis that did not want his tomb to turn in to a shrine like for instance Saddam Hussein tomb. “or the alleged Saddam Hussein tomb as his daughter says that daddy is alive !!” Why I call it silly well theoretically Bin Laden’s Islamic beliefs which are considered a mix of Wahbism and so-called Salafism prohibit this. His followers will not visit his tomb and turn it in to a shrine , they are against shrines and they destroy them.
- Did not they announce that Osama Bin Laden was already dead during the G.W Bush’s second !? People say that he was killed in 2001 !!
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Despite the American president’s speech and the announcement that the US forces verified the body as Ben Laden’s using DNA , the DNA results have not yet been announced according to CNN’s sources.