we are saw this Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead
WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.
President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.
Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground operation, not by a Predator drone. Both said the operation was based on U.S. intelligence, and both said the U.S. is in possession of bin Laden's body.
Officials long believed bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, was hiding a mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.
The development comes just months before the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Centers and Pentagon, orchestrated by bin Laden's al-Qaida organization, that killed more than 3,000 people.
The attacks set off a chain of events that led the United States into wars in Afghanistan, and then Iraq, and America's entire intelligence apparatus was overhauled to counter the threat of more terror attacks at home.
Al-Qaida organization was also blamed for the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 231 people and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in Yemen, as well as countless other plots, some successful and some foiled.
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Sunday, 10 October 2010
Watches this Highest-ranking N.Korean defector found dead
Highest-ranking N.Korean defector found dead
AFP/File – Hwang Jang-Yop, seen here in March 2010, the highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come to South
SEOUL (AFP) – The highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come to South Korea was found dead at his Seoul home Sunday, police said.
Hwang Jang-Yop, 87, defected via China in 1997 and lived under police guard at a secret address. He had received several death threats.
A city police spokesman confirmed Hwang's death, but gave no immediate details. News reports said he was thought to have died of natural causes.
YTN television quoted sources as saying he was found in the bathroom and apparently suffered a heart attack.
But it said intelligence officials were also investigating the possibility that Hwang, a bitter critic of the regime he once served, may have been killed.
Hwang was a former tutor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and secretary to its ruling party.
Yonhap news agency said police believe Hwang died of natural causes since a security guard was sleeping at Hwang's residence and there was no sign of a forced entry. It said an autopsy would be held.
Police were to give a briefing on the death at 0600 GMT.
Hwang was found dead on the day the North's regime staged a triumphal military parade in Pyongyang. It was attended by Kim and his youngest son and heir apparent Jong-Un.
In April, the North's official website had threatened Hwang with death over his criticism of the regime during trips to the United States and Japan.
Hwang "will not be safe anywhere", the Uriminzokkiri website warned in a commentary.
"You must not forget traitors have always been slaughtered with knives," it said.
The commentary described Hwang, who defected during a visit to Beijing, as a "traitor and human scum" and said he had "viciously slandered our dignity and system" during his trips.
In July, a South Korean court passed 10-year prison sentences on two North Korean agents who posed as fugitives from the communist state in a bid to assassinate Hwang.
The court heard they received their orders directly from the North's military intelligence head Kim Yong-Chol.
The North denied any assassination bid, accusing Seoul of inventing the story to fuel tensions between the neighbours.
Three days after Hwang's defection in 1997, another high-profile defector was assassinated in Seoul.
Lee Han-Young, a nephew of Sung Hye-Rim -- the deceased first wife of leader Kim Jong-Il -- was shot dead outside his apartment.
Lee had lived in the South for 15 years. He was murdered after breaking his long silence about Kim's private life.
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AFP/File – Hwang Jang-Yop, seen here in March 2010, the highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come to South
SEOUL (AFP) – The highest-ranking North Korean defector ever to come to South Korea was found dead at his Seoul home Sunday, police said.
Hwang Jang-Yop, 87, defected via China in 1997 and lived under police guard at a secret address. He had received several death threats.
A city police spokesman confirmed Hwang's death, but gave no immediate details. News reports said he was thought to have died of natural causes.
YTN television quoted sources as saying he was found in the bathroom and apparently suffered a heart attack.
But it said intelligence officials were also investigating the possibility that Hwang, a bitter critic of the regime he once served, may have been killed.
Hwang was a former tutor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and secretary to its ruling party.
Yonhap news agency said police believe Hwang died of natural causes since a security guard was sleeping at Hwang's residence and there was no sign of a forced entry. It said an autopsy would be held.
Police were to give a briefing on the death at 0600 GMT.
Hwang was found dead on the day the North's regime staged a triumphal military parade in Pyongyang. It was attended by Kim and his youngest son and heir apparent Jong-Un.
In April, the North's official website had threatened Hwang with death over his criticism of the regime during trips to the United States and Japan.
Hwang "will not be safe anywhere", the Uriminzokkiri website warned in a commentary.
"You must not forget traitors have always been slaughtered with knives," it said.
The commentary described Hwang, who defected during a visit to Beijing, as a "traitor and human scum" and said he had "viciously slandered our dignity and system" during his trips.
In July, a South Korean court passed 10-year prison sentences on two North Korean agents who posed as fugitives from the communist state in a bid to assassinate Hwang.
The court heard they received their orders directly from the North's military intelligence head Kim Yong-Chol.
The North denied any assassination bid, accusing Seoul of inventing the story to fuel tensions between the neighbours.
Three days after Hwang's defection in 1997, another high-profile defector was assassinated in Seoul.
Lee Han-Young, a nephew of Sung Hye-Rim -- the deceased first wife of leader Kim Jong-Il -- was shot dead outside his apartment.
Lee had lived in the South for 15 years. He was murdered after breaking his long silence about Kim's private life.
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Thursday, 26 August 2010
Excited At least 53 dead as car bombs target Iraq police
At least 53 dead as car bombs target Iraq police
AFP – An injured child is carried by her mother following a car bomb in a residential neighbourhood in the
BAGHDAD (AFP) – More than a dozen apparently coordinated car bombs targeting Iraqi police and other attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 53 people on Wednesday, just days before the US military ends its combat mission.
The trail of bloodshed started in the capital Baghdad before stretching to the north and south of the country, hitting 10 cities and towns in quick succession in tactics that bore the hallmark of the jihadist network.
Some 250 people were also wounded, security officials said, as a total of 14 car bombs wrought havoc for police and soldiers whose ability to protect the country is under close scrutiny as US forces have drawn down.
In the deadliest attack, a car bomb at a passport office in Kut, southeast of Baghdad, killed 20 people, including 15 police, and wounded 90 others, most of them police, Lieutenant Ali Hussein told AFP.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northeastern suburb of Qahira, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more, security and medical officials said.
The attack in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighbourhood took place at around 8 am (0500 GMT), according to an interior ministry official who gave the toll. "The victims included policemen and civilians," he said.
A doctor at Medical City Hospital said they had received the bodies of two women, two children and two police officers, and that 44 other people were receiving treatment.
A spike in unrest over the past two months has triggered concern that Iraqi forces are not yet ready to handle security on their own, especially with no new government formed in Baghdad since a March 7 general election.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed Wednesday's attacks on Al-Qaeda and remnants of the Baath party of now executed dictator Saddam Hussein, who he said wanted "to shake people's confidence in the security forces."
"They (the security forces) are ready to bear the responsibility after US (combat) forces withdraw at the end of August," Maliki said in a statement.
The US army announced on Tuesday that troop levels were below 50,000 in line with President Barack Obama's directives as part of a "responsible drawdown" of troops, seven years on from the invasion which ousted Saddam.
The reduction has raised fears that Qaeda-linked insurgents will step up their attacks.
A separate car bomb in Baghdad killed two police and wounded seven civilians in the city centre, while two other police were shot dead in Al-Amel, a southern district, the interior ministry official said.
In the north of the country, a car bomb in the ethnically divided, oil hub of Kirkuk killed one person and wounded 11, said Colonel Adel Zain al-Abideen, the city's acting chief of police.
In Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, a car bomb killed four civilians and gunmen killed a lieutenant colonel at a police checkpoint.
In Muqdadiya, northeast of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded as a police patrol passed, killing three civilians. When troops arrived to investigate, a second bomb exploded, wounding six soldiers.
In western Iraq, three people, two of them police, were killed and 16 wounded in two car bombs, one of them at a police checkpoint in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, a security official said.
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AFP – An injured child is carried by her mother following a car bomb in a residential neighbourhood in the
BAGHDAD (AFP) – More than a dozen apparently coordinated car bombs targeting Iraqi police and other attacks blamed on Al-Qaeda killed 53 people on Wednesday, just days before the US military ends its combat mission.
The trail of bloodshed started in the capital Baghdad before stretching to the north and south of the country, hitting 10 cities and towns in quick succession in tactics that bore the hallmark of the jihadist network.
Some 250 people were also wounded, security officials said, as a total of 14 car bombs wrought havoc for police and soldiers whose ability to protect the country is under close scrutiny as US forces have drawn down.
In the deadliest attack, a car bomb at a passport office in Kut, southeast of Baghdad, killed 20 people, including 15 police, and wounded 90 others, most of them police, Lieutenant Ali Hussein told AFP.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle at a police station in the northeastern suburb of Qahira, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more, security and medical officials said.
The attack in the mixed Sunni-Shiite neighbourhood took place at around 8 am (0500 GMT), according to an interior ministry official who gave the toll. "The victims included policemen and civilians," he said.
A doctor at Medical City Hospital said they had received the bodies of two women, two children and two police officers, and that 44 other people were receiving treatment.
A spike in unrest over the past two months has triggered concern that Iraqi forces are not yet ready to handle security on their own, especially with no new government formed in Baghdad since a March 7 general election.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blamed Wednesday's attacks on Al-Qaeda and remnants of the Baath party of now executed dictator Saddam Hussein, who he said wanted "to shake people's confidence in the security forces."
"They (the security forces) are ready to bear the responsibility after US (combat) forces withdraw at the end of August," Maliki said in a statement.
The US army announced on Tuesday that troop levels were below 50,000 in line with President Barack Obama's directives as part of a "responsible drawdown" of troops, seven years on from the invasion which ousted Saddam.
The reduction has raised fears that Qaeda-linked insurgents will step up their attacks.
A separate car bomb in Baghdad killed two police and wounded seven civilians in the city centre, while two other police were shot dead in Al-Amel, a southern district, the interior ministry official said.
In the north of the country, a car bomb in the ethnically divided, oil hub of Kirkuk killed one person and wounded 11, said Colonel Adel Zain al-Abideen, the city's acting chief of police.
In Iraq's main northern city of Mosul, a car bomb killed four civilians and gunmen killed a lieutenant colonel at a police checkpoint.
In Muqdadiya, northeast of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded as a police patrol passed, killing three civilians. When troops arrived to investigate, a second bomb exploded, wounding six soldiers.
In western Iraq, three people, two of them police, were killed and 16 wounded in two car bombs, one of them at a police checkpoint in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, a security official said.
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
now we watch this Plane Crashes Near Everest; 4 Americans Among Dead
Plane Crashes Near Everest; 4 Americans Among Dead
KATMANDU, Nepal — Fourteen people, including four Americans, died Tuesday in Nepal when their plane crashed in inclement weather, after a failed attempt to reach a popular destination for touring hikers near Mount Everest, according to Nepali officials.
The three-member flight crew also died in the crash, as did five Nepali passengers, a British passenger and a passenger from Japan.
The Agni Air flight crashed about 50 miles south of the capital, Katmandu, said Laxman Bhattarai, a spokesman for Nepal’s Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. The plane, a German-made Dornier turboprop, was returning to Katmandu after bad weather had prevented it from reaching the Lukla airport in the Everest region.
On Tuesday afternoon, Nepal’s government announced an investigation into the cause of the crash. One witness told a Nepalese television station that there appeared to be an explosion in midair before the aircraft went down.
The flight manifest suggested the passengers were traveling with a tour group.
Terry White, a spokesman at the United States Embassy in Nepal, said the families of the four Americans had been notified. Nepalese aviation officials identified them as Irina Shekhets, whose 30th birthday was Tuesday; Leuzi Cardoso, 49; Heather Finch, 40; and Kendra Dominique Fallon, 18.
Ms. Cardoso and Ms. Finch, who worked together at a law firm in Provo, Utah, had been traveling with a tour group to Lukla, their jumping-off point for a trek to the Everest base camp, said John Valentine, managing partner at the firm.
“It had been a lifelong dream,” Mr. Valentine said. “They had been training for it and training for it. They’d gone to our highest peaks in Utah to get acclimatized to the elevation.”
Weather has often been blamed for plane crashes in the same region. On Tuesday, visibility at the crash site was minimal.
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KATMANDU, Nepal — Fourteen people, including four Americans, died Tuesday in Nepal when their plane crashed in inclement weather, after a failed attempt to reach a popular destination for touring hikers near Mount Everest, according to Nepali officials.
The three-member flight crew also died in the crash, as did five Nepali passengers, a British passenger and a passenger from Japan.
The Agni Air flight crashed about 50 miles south of the capital, Katmandu, said Laxman Bhattarai, a spokesman for Nepal’s Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. The plane, a German-made Dornier turboprop, was returning to Katmandu after bad weather had prevented it from reaching the Lukla airport in the Everest region.
On Tuesday afternoon, Nepal’s government announced an investigation into the cause of the crash. One witness told a Nepalese television station that there appeared to be an explosion in midair before the aircraft went down.
The flight manifest suggested the passengers were traveling with a tour group.
Terry White, a spokesman at the United States Embassy in Nepal, said the families of the four Americans had been notified. Nepalese aviation officials identified them as Irina Shekhets, whose 30th birthday was Tuesday; Leuzi Cardoso, 49; Heather Finch, 40; and Kendra Dominique Fallon, 18.
Ms. Cardoso and Ms. Finch, who worked together at a law firm in Provo, Utah, had been traveling with a tour group to Lukla, their jumping-off point for a trek to the Everest base camp, said John Valentine, managing partner at the firm.
“It had been a lifelong dream,” Mr. Valentine said. “They had been training for it and training for it. They’d gone to our highest peaks in Utah to get acclimatized to the elevation.”
Weather has often been blamed for plane crashes in the same region. On Tuesday, visibility at the crash site was minimal.
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Watch Somali militants storm hotel, 31 dead includes MPs
Enjoy Somali militants storm hotel, 31 dead includes MPs
Somali Deputy Prime Minister Abdirahman Ibbi speaks to the media following the armed attack on the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu August 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar Faruk)
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents in army uniforms stormed a hotel in Mogadishu frequented by Somali government officials on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people including members of parliament.
Somali Deputy Prime Minister Abdirahman Ibbi speaks to the media following the armed attack on the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu August 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar Faruk)
The hardline al Shabaab Islamists who have been fighting for three years to oust the fragile Western-backed "transitional government", and control most of the city, claimed the attack.
Mohamud Huusein, a civil servant who lived in the hotel, told Reuters the gunmen had pretended to be government soldiers and approached the hotel's entrance, bragging of having beaten some rebel militiamen.
"The security guards moved forward smiling, and eager to hear more stories but they were floored with fire and the gunmen entered the hotel and fired into every room and hall," he said.
"I jumped out through a window, like many others who survived in this way. Finally when they run out of bullets and the hotel was under siege by government soldiers, the two men had only one option, to blow themselves up."
The assault, several hundred metres away from the president's residence, underscored the failure of the government and more than 6,300 mostly Ugandan African Union peacekeepers to bring order after nearly two decades of anarchy, making Somalia a continual source of instability for east Africa.
Last month al Shabaab expanded its reach as far as Uganda, claiming a double suicide bombing of packed bars in the capital Kampala, to put pressure on it to pull its troops out.
Those attacks killed more than 70 people and jolted the African Union into increasing the peacekeeping contingent and considering giving it a mandate to fight the rebels.
On Tuesday, al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told reporters in Mogadishu that its fighters had "carried out an operation at Hotel Muna" and succeeded in killing government and intelligence officials, MPs and civil servants.
The Information Ministry said the 31 dead included six legislators and five government security personnel.
"The blood of the dead is leaking out of the hotel," Information Minister Abdirahman Osman said.
In a testament to the violence, the head of one of the gunmen was still outside the two-storey hotel late in the afternoon and the body of another, missing one hand and riddled with bullets, lay nearby, a Reuters witness said.
Workers cleaned the hotel floor with brushes stained red as they pushed bloody water toward the building's entrance.
DISGUISED
The Muna Hotel stands in one of the small nominally government-controlled areas of the capital, between the presidential palace and the Indian Ocean.
Osman said one gunman had been captured. His ministry said two others blew themselves up, and that sporadic gunfire and shelling were continuing in the area.
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Somali Deputy Prime Minister Abdirahman Ibbi speaks to the media following the armed attack on the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu August 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar Faruk)
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents in army uniforms stormed a hotel in Mogadishu frequented by Somali government officials on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people including members of parliament.
Somali Deputy Prime Minister Abdirahman Ibbi speaks to the media following the armed attack on the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu August 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar Faruk)
The hardline al Shabaab Islamists who have been fighting for three years to oust the fragile Western-backed "transitional government", and control most of the city, claimed the attack.
Mohamud Huusein, a civil servant who lived in the hotel, told Reuters the gunmen had pretended to be government soldiers and approached the hotel's entrance, bragging of having beaten some rebel militiamen.
"The security guards moved forward smiling, and eager to hear more stories but they were floored with fire and the gunmen entered the hotel and fired into every room and hall," he said.
"I jumped out through a window, like many others who survived in this way. Finally when they run out of bullets and the hotel was under siege by government soldiers, the two men had only one option, to blow themselves up."
The assault, several hundred metres away from the president's residence, underscored the failure of the government and more than 6,300 mostly Ugandan African Union peacekeepers to bring order after nearly two decades of anarchy, making Somalia a continual source of instability for east Africa.
Last month al Shabaab expanded its reach as far as Uganda, claiming a double suicide bombing of packed bars in the capital Kampala, to put pressure on it to pull its troops out.
Those attacks killed more than 70 people and jolted the African Union into increasing the peacekeeping contingent and considering giving it a mandate to fight the rebels.
On Tuesday, al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told reporters in Mogadishu that its fighters had "carried out an operation at Hotel Muna" and succeeded in killing government and intelligence officials, MPs and civil servants.
The Information Ministry said the 31 dead included six legislators and five government security personnel.
"The blood of the dead is leaking out of the hotel," Information Minister Abdirahman Osman said.
In a testament to the violence, the head of one of the gunmen was still outside the two-storey hotel late in the afternoon and the body of another, missing one hand and riddled with bullets, lay nearby, a Reuters witness said.
Workers cleaned the hotel floor with brushes stained red as they pushed bloody water toward the building's entrance.
DISGUISED
The Muna Hotel stands in one of the small nominally government-controlled areas of the capital, between the presidential palace and the Indian Ocean.
Osman said one gunman had been captured. His ministry said two others blew themselves up, and that sporadic gunfire and shelling were continuing in the area.
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