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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Bin Laden: the book reveals secrets of the raid, Gates and Biden opposed

The then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden are opposed to the last raid in Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed, considering it too risky. This was revealed in the book "Manhunt. The ten year search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad" (Manhunt. Ten years of research from 11 September to Abbottabad) that will come out 'Tuesday', in American bookstores, in On the first anniversary of the raid.

Helped Pakistan to capture bin Laden

Pakistani intelligence services provided information to the United States proved to be useful for the operation that took the life of Osama bin Laden, said a U.S. official on Saturday. "The Pakistan did not provide any information about Bin Laden but provided some information that helped the U.S. to get the image of the residential complex "where was the head of al Qaeda, said the source who requested anonymity."It was an American operation," he added . These statements are in response to information published on Saturday by The Washington Post quoted officials of the Pakistani secret service (ISI). Members of the ISI say that it was they who provided the information critical to find bin Laden."The information came from us," said anonymously a senior Pakistani intelligence services to the Washington Post. The founder of Al Qaeda was killed on 2 May last year in a U.S. covert operation in the city of Abbottabad, north of the capital of Pakistan. "All blows against al Qaeda occurred in different parts of the world were carried out with our help," adds another Pakistani intelligence officer in the Post. Following the announcement of the death of Bin Laden, U.S. President Barack Obama considered it "important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped us get to Bin Laden and the residential complex which he hid. "

North Korea is preparing new nuclear test

After an unsuccessful rocket launch in mid-April, the North Korean leadership evidently preparing a new nuclear test.Satellite images show intense work on the test site. Give near the east coast there are obviously preparing for the third overall nuclear test in the history of the country, specializing in the topic US-38 North website reported on Saturday, referring to recent satellite images.This would give, but no information about when to expect the test was.The photos showed'm transported as a test ground tunnel, which apparently originated from dredging, it said on the website. Also on the test site would be held extensive excavations.There are also many objects have been brought, but the basis of the photos could not be identified, told the website.She quoted the South Korean Defense Minister Lim Kwan Bin as saying that there is a "high probability" for a new nuclear test.The information appropriate to the announcement of an informant, the news agency Reuters, the recent talk of an imminent trial had.North Korea on 13April, a rocket launched a satellite observation, but shortly there after fell into the Yellow SeaThe U.S., Japan and South Korea saw the launch as a covert test of a long-range missile for the North Korean nuclear program, and thus a violation of UN resolutions. When the U.S. subsequently exposing food supplies, North Korea announced a moratorium on nuclear testing.North Korea had already been made ​​in the years 2006 and 2009, two nuclear tests.