Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Obama refuses to publish photos of the remains of Bin Laden

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, said Wednesday, May 4 at the CBS television that he opposed finally posting pictures of the corpse of Osama Bin Laden because they constitute a "security risk National "and could be used for propaganda purposes. "We discussed it internally, and remember that we are absolutely certain it was him.

There have been sampling and DNA analysis. So there is no doubt that we've killed Osama Bin Laden, "Obama said, according to the website of the chain. "It is very important not to allow photographic evidence in nature as a tool of incitement (to violence) (...). It is not our kind. We do not brandish such things as trophies, "Obama said, according to the channel, which broadcast the full interview in the Sunday program" 60 Minutes ".

Washington Post: "After the death of Osama, can deal with the Taliban"

The Taliban leader, Mullah Omar The killing of Osama Bin Laden opens new perspectives for the United States to end the war in Afghanistan. As in the past few days (Read the article by Luigi Franco), the public, especially the media wonder about the appropriate strategy to close as quickly as possible the scenario in Afghanistan.

The Obama administration, writes the Washington Post, citing U.S. officials involved in issues of Afghanistan, is working on ways to take advantage of the elimination of Al Qaeda leaders to accelerate a negotiated settlement with the Taliban and exit from the conflict. First, American officials now believe it will be easier for Mullah Omar, Taliban leader, historian at the head of an influential faction of the Koranic students, break the alliance with al Qaeda, one of the main requirements of U.S.

In Libya, residents fear a new offensive Misrata

Residents were concerned, Wednesday, May 4, in Misrata, besieged for over two months by the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, after the expiry of an ultimatum set by the Libyan regime for the rebels to surrender and blocking the port, only supply route for this city. The day Tuesday was relatively quiet after an offensive forces Gaddafi Monday against the third largest city, 200 km east of Tripoli.

Osama: torturers on the Range

Toh, who will review: Paul Wolfowitz ... Interviewed by the press correspondents, Maurizio Molinari, that, during the reign George W. Bush, was number two in the Pentagon "neocons" and the first prominent ideologue of the "endless war", says his killing of Osama Bin Laden. It says - it is not clear based on what logic, even more than on the basis of such sources - that the relevant information to reach the big boss of Al Qaeda came from interviews conducted in the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

In Abidjan, Gbagbo last soldiers hunted

The Republican Forces of Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI) Alassane Ouattara's Ivorian president continued, Tuesday, May 3, operations incurred earlier this week in the west of Abidjan against militia supported the former head of state Laurent Gbagbo. Operations are directed against militiamen "entrenched" at the naval base on the edge of the lagoon in south-east of the vast district of Yopougon.

One commander said FRCI gbagbistes militiamen who continued to resist Yopougon were mostly Liberian mercenaries. "The different positions of the militia and mercenaries" in the district of Yopougon "came under control FRCI, the naval base is being processed," said the spokesman of the government.

Argentina .- Secretary of State law says that Spain helped Argentina to "revalue the meaning of democracy"

MADRID, 4 May. The Secretary of State for Law of Argentina, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, Argentina said Wednesday that he learned of the Spanish transition to "reassess the meaning of democracy." In a lecture at the Ateneo de Madrid, Argentina dictatorship recalled Duhalde (1976-1983) to which they labeled a "terrorist." The leader said "the dictatorship amounted to brutality and terror, hypocrisy and denial of their own actions." During the ceremony, the coordinator of Argentina in the Archives of the Institute of Political Studies for Latin America and Africa (IEPALA), Mario Amorós, presented his book in the Archive IEPALA Argentina (1976-1983) 'the same day in which marks the 35 anniversary of the coup of the military junta led by Jorge Videla.

Bin Laden's daughter: "Before I got, then killed," Obama: "I do not post photos"

The second false picture of Osama died in circulation will not be published on the internet photos of Osama bin Laden. He said the U.S. president Barack Obama CBS: they are so gruesome that could "endanger national security" because it could encourage extremists even more vengeance. Two days (read the news yesterday) the killing of the former head of al Qaeda, Obama has thus taken a final decision, after Day had leaked news about the possible publication of at least one image.