The international community, particularly Pakistan, on Tuesday was on alert for fear of retaliation from Al Qaeda cell after the death in Pakistan for Osama Bin Laden during a U.S. commando raid. The warnings of possible retaliation from Al Qaeda were multiplied in the last few hours and several countries tightened security measures.
United States issued an alert to security forces and closed to the public "until further notice" its embassy and consulates in Pakistan. The CIA director, Leon Panetta, who piloted the removal operation, said it was "almost certain" that Bin Laden supporters were going to seek revenge. The U.S.
Internal Security Minister, Janet Napolitano, said however that there was no imminent threat of attack in the U.S. and therefore the country has not raised its alert level. Pakistan's Taliban allies of Al Qaeda, vowed they would avenge the death of Bin Laden, launching attacks against U.S.
targets and the Pakistani government. Pakistan, torn apart for three years for hundreds of attacks by the Taliban and their allies, is prepared to live in difficult days in a complicated context. The authorities were accused by the United States double play in the fight against terrorism and at the same time take into account the sentiment in public opinion.
"It is inconceivable that Bin Laden has not benefited from a support system in a country that allowed him to stay a long time," said John Brennan, chief counterterrorism adviser to Obama. "Pakistan's position lacks clarity," said for his part, French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe. Hard to imagine "that the presence of a person like Bin Laden in an important residence of a relatively small city may have gone totally unnoticed," said Juppe.
Part of the Pakistani secret services (ISI) is suspected of supporting the Taliban, allies of Al Qaeda. These accusations were rejected by Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari. The "elimination" of Bin Laden is the result of a "decade of cooperation and partnership between the U.S. and Pakistan," Zardari wrote in an article published by The Washington Post.
"Our help in identifying the messenger of Bin Laden led to the final events" on Monday, he said. In Islamabad, as in the sensitive areas of several cities, security has been reinforced. More than 24 hours after the death of "Geronimo", the code name for bin Laden commands Navy U.S. Navy Seals, the authorities continued dropper distilling the details of the 40-minute operation that ended the life of symbol of the "international jihad" XXI century.
The White House told the minutes "long as days" who lived Barack Obama, his vice president Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, meeting room of the presidential crisis. The pictures show faces serious and focused and Clinton one takes the hand to mouth, as if anxious. Panetta transmitted only when the message "Geronimo WAS EKIA now," Ben Laden is now dead in combat, the atmosphere was defused.
"The Pill" Obama said when he learned that DNA analysis had confirmed the identity of the dead. In the evening, Obama urged U.S. representatives and senators to take the death of Bin Laden to overcome their differences and reform drive that was after the attacks of September 11, 2001. On Thursday, Obama will go to New York, at Ground Zero, where once stood the Twin Towers destroyed by al Qaeda on September 11, 2001, to meet with the families of the victims.
Bin Laden, born 1957, died in a house in Abbottabad, a town some 80 km north of Islamabad, where he lived in hiding. He died of a bullet to the head fired by members of U.S. Special Forces, the Navy Seals who launched the assault. The command wanted to capture him alive, but Bin Laden "held out for the shooting, so they had to kill him," said a U.S.
official. Bin Laden's body was thrown into the sea from a U.S. aircraft carrier sailing off the coast of Pakistan, officials said. 
United States issued an alert to security forces and closed to the public "until further notice" its embassy and consulates in Pakistan. The CIA director, Leon Panetta, who piloted the removal operation, said it was "almost certain" that Bin Laden supporters were going to seek revenge. The U.S.
Internal Security Minister, Janet Napolitano, said however that there was no imminent threat of attack in the U.S. and therefore the country has not raised its alert level. Pakistan's Taliban allies of Al Qaeda, vowed they would avenge the death of Bin Laden, launching attacks against U.S.
targets and the Pakistani government. Pakistan, torn apart for three years for hundreds of attacks by the Taliban and their allies, is prepared to live in difficult days in a complicated context. The authorities were accused by the United States double play in the fight against terrorism and at the same time take into account the sentiment in public opinion.
"It is inconceivable that Bin Laden has not benefited from a support system in a country that allowed him to stay a long time," said John Brennan, chief counterterrorism adviser to Obama. "Pakistan's position lacks clarity," said for his part, French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe. Hard to imagine "that the presence of a person like Bin Laden in an important residence of a relatively small city may have gone totally unnoticed," said Juppe.
Part of the Pakistani secret services (ISI) is suspected of supporting the Taliban, allies of Al Qaeda. These accusations were rejected by Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari. The "elimination" of Bin Laden is the result of a "decade of cooperation and partnership between the U.S. and Pakistan," Zardari wrote in an article published by The Washington Post.
"Our help in identifying the messenger of Bin Laden led to the final events" on Monday, he said. In Islamabad, as in the sensitive areas of several cities, security has been reinforced. More than 24 hours after the death of "Geronimo", the code name for bin Laden commands Navy U.S. Navy Seals, the authorities continued dropper distilling the details of the 40-minute operation that ended the life of symbol of the "international jihad" XXI century.
The White House told the minutes "long as days" who lived Barack Obama, his vice president Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, meeting room of the presidential crisis. The pictures show faces serious and focused and Clinton one takes the hand to mouth, as if anxious. Panetta transmitted only when the message "Geronimo WAS EKIA now," Ben Laden is now dead in combat, the atmosphere was defused.
"The Pill" Obama said when he learned that DNA analysis had confirmed the identity of the dead. In the evening, Obama urged U.S. representatives and senators to take the death of Bin Laden to overcome their differences and reform drive that was after the attacks of September 11, 2001. On Thursday, Obama will go to New York, at Ground Zero, where once stood the Twin Towers destroyed by al Qaeda on September 11, 2001, to meet with the families of the victims.
Bin Laden, born 1957, died in a house in Abbottabad, a town some 80 km north of Islamabad, where he lived in hiding. He died of a bullet to the head fired by members of U.S. Special Forces, the Navy Seals who launched the assault. The command wanted to capture him alive, but Bin Laden "held out for the shooting, so they had to kill him," said a U.S.
official. Bin Laden's body was thrown into the sea from a U.S. aircraft carrier sailing off the coast of Pakistan, officials said.
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