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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Bin Laden. Before being killed, he wanted to change the name of Al-Qaeda


Osama bin Laden, anxious to see Al-Qaeda suffer "disaster after disaster," had thought about changing the name of his terrorist group, said Monday the White House before the publication of documents seized during the raid against the lair of the extremist leader, a year ago, Pakistan. These documents will be published on the Internet by the military academy at West Point shows that members of Al Qaeda are aware "that this is a fight they will never win  And Bin Laden knew it. In the documents we seized, he acknowledged suffer disaster after disaster ", said the principal adviser to President Barack Obama on counterterrorism, John Brennan. "When we assess the state of al Qaeda in 2012, we can say that through our efforts, the United States and Americans are safer" , John Brennan assured in a speech before the group reflection "Wilson Center" in Washington, a few hours of the anniversary of the U.S. commando raid in which bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad in Pakistan, May 2, 2011.
Al-Qaeda has struggled to replace its leaders
Referring to the bombing of U.S. drones that have killed many extremist cadres of the nebula in recent years, particularly in Pakistan, John Brennan assured that "with its leaders the best trained and most experienced that disappeared if quickly, Al Qaeda is struggling to replace them " . According to the advisor of Barack Obama, "  bin Laden was concerned, and j e quote, from the rise in the hierarchy (combatants) who would not be as experienced, and that would mean repeating mistakes  . " Today, "the leaders of Al Qaeda continue to have difficulty communicating with their staff and affiliated groups morale is low" , assured the councilor, who observes that "the image of al- Qaeda is so damaged that bin Laden has even thought about changing the name " of the nebula extremist he had founded.
U.S. authorities on their guard
John Brennan was kept for complacency, however, while the attacks attributed to the nebula have been foiled narrowly against the American homeland ago just two years in New York at Christmas 2009 and against an airliner approaching Detroit.  But he expressed confidence that "this will be the decade of the end" for Al Qaeda, and suggested that "for the first time since the fighting began, we can envision a world in which the heart of Al Qaeda will have more importance " .

Osama bin Laden helps Obama in the election campaign


OnMay it's a year ago that the elite soldiers of the U.S. Navy Seals Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad (Pakistan) killed. U.S. President Obama then celebrated his greatest triumph. The "Situation Room" at the White House the night of 2 May 2011: There is a tense atmosphere. Surrounded by his closest advisers sees the U.S. president at the center position, as his elite soldiers stormed bin Laden's villa. Now is campaigning in the U.S. - and the death of Osama bin Laden's more important than ever for Obama. Obama came in with the night commando action at high risk. A year later, he now hopes the political dividends - and brags in the election campaign with the killing of most wanted terrorists. "The commander is given a chance to make the right decision," begins an Internet video, the Obama campaign released a few days ago. It praises the former president Bill Clinton have the courage of his successor, the eulogy is backed by green night-vision shots of using photos of a brooding and Obama. "He had to decide. And this is a president hired, "Clinton lectured. Then ask the makers of the video, the crucial question: How would Mitt Romney traded in this situation, the most likely for the Republicans in the election on 6 November compete against Obama? The answer comes in the form of a statement, Romney was quoted as four years ago in the U.S. media: "It's not worth it to put heaven and earth in motion, and spend billions of dollars to catch just one person." Obama's campaigners know only too well that bin Laden for the people of the United States was more than just "one person". In the diffuse war on terror after the September 11 September 2001, the bearded al-Qaida leader an enemy of flesh and blood dar. The attacks of the terrorist network with hijacked planes on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC offset of the invincible feeling superpower a deep shock. The former Republican President George W. Bush gave this advice, bin Laden must be caught - dead or alive. Bush's successor, Obama did the job. "Justice is done enough," said the president, as he his countrymen the news of the death of bin Laden brought. A few hours earlier had helicopter about two dozen soldiers of the elite Navy SEALs under the cover of darkness to store property in Abbottabad flew .The fighters stormed the two-story house and shot bin Laden, the whole operation took just 40 minutes. The body of Al-Qaeda chief was taken in the Arabian Sea on a U.S. aircraft carrier cruising and buried at seaOn the anniversary of killing bin Laden on Wednesday broadcasts of TV channels NBC interview, in which the U.S. president can be in the "Situation Room", the key moments of the use before the eyes of the electorate once again to reminisce. One year after bin Laden's death start Obama another "commando action", commented the online magazine "Politico": "A large-scale public relations campaign, which aims to increase with the Bin Laden used the re-election chances of President. "The Republicans reacted angrily to Obama's handling of the calculated killing of terrorist leaders. "We are saddened that the President of the United States politicized this event," said Romney's campaign team. "It is not fitting for the commander in chief." Obama in the polls, voters in the high level of competence to certify national security - an issue where the Republicans usually score. "The death of bin Laden is one of the reasons for it," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings renowned. Obama will win the election but not why. In November, it will go mainly to the sluggish economy.

India: 200 dead or missing in ferry disaster


A ferry overloaded with passengers broke in two and sank Monday during a storm in a river in north-eastern India, killing at least 68 dead and 130 missing, police said. About 150 people were rescued or managed to escape by swimming, after a ferry carrying women and children had been shipwrecked in the stormy waters of the Brahmaputra in Assam. The local police officer A. Dass said that rescuers had recovered the bodies of 68 victims, while 132 people were still missing. "There were about 350 people on board when the storm broke in two on the ferry," the police official of Assam, JN Choudhury. Rescuers, including army units, dispatched to the scene of the accident were fighting desperately for survivors but they were hampered by bad weather and darkness. "I've seen people be trained because the river current was strong," "The chances of survival are low" in the river swept away by heavy rains, he added. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who said he was "shocked and dismayed" by the extent of losses, called the sinking of "tragedy" and pledged to provide all necessary government support.  The ship was traveling from the neighboring district of Dhubri Fakirganjan when the accident occurred. Dhubri is located some 300 km from Guwahati, Assam's main city. Fishermen living in villages along the Brahmaputra were trying to find survivors in the dark. Trees uprooted by winds blocked access roads to the crash site, preventing rescue teams to reach the area, officials said in Guwahati. More rains were forecast for Tuesday in the region. Boats are a common mode of transport in India in the remotest regions but accidents are common due to ineffective safety standards and too many passengers on board. The death toll could be one of the highest in recent years in Southeast Asia. In October 2010, at least 79 Muslim pilgrims were drowned when their overloaded ship carrying 150 people sank in the State of West Bengal.

New York already has its new tallest building in the city at "ground zero"


New York has today its new tallest skyscraper in the city on the main building of the World Trade Center (WTC), which has passed on the journey to the Empire State, where workers put part of its steel structure over 381 meters high even get to the 541 meters. Although construction work will continue in Tower 1 of the new WTC, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, announced at noon that the impressive building has already surpassed the 381 meters high and is taller than the iconic Empire State Building excluding antennas. At 18.09 GMT the construction of the tower, also known as Freedom, has been crowned the tallest skyscraper in New York, but should not reach others in the world, such as the Burj Dubai in Dubai, which has a height of 828 meters and more than 160 floors. Other skyscrapers ranked among the highest in the world are the Makkah Clock Royal Tower hotel in Mecca, with 601 meters and 120 plants, and the Taiwan Taipei 101, more than 100 plants and almost 510 meters high. "It took a long time, but this is probably the most complicated construction of the world and I think we have shown is that democracy works, we have let many different people participate in decision-making", said the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, in a press conference. Bloomberg added that "recent progress (the work) of the World Trade Center is a testament to the strength and resolve of New Yorkers, in addition we believe that the city will always go up." "The profile of New York, once again, is reaching higher," added the New York mayor, who stressed that the new building is "the work of many. I congratulate you all for working together to overcome challenges has raised this incredibly complex project. " He stressed that the Big Apple "has today its new tallest building, and also a proof of how our future brighter." The new building will be imposed and the profile of the Big Apple on the Empire State Building, an Art Deco building built in 1931 has been the largest skyscraper in the city since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 destroyed the Twin Towers. On the website earthcam.com, who installed a camera that has been capturing the process of rebuilding ground zero since the attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people, you can see on video how it has gone up this tower to become the highest in the Big Apple. "Four robotic cameras located in different places have taken on a daily images of the construction work since 2004," said a spokesman for Efe EarthCam, while noted that the images are taken every fifteen minutes and to make your video two minutes used "more than a million edited images." The company's services automatically capture images 288 times per day, and then file them and donate to the museum on September 11 Memorial, also located in that area of ​​Manhattan. Once it is completed, expected in late 2013 or early 2014, Tower 1 World Trade Center New York dominate the skyline with its 104 floors and 541 meters (1,776 feet), a symbolic figure because that was the year the United States formally became independent of the British Empire. In addition, the skyscraper will feature a roof at a height of 417 meters, had exactly the same as the Twin Towers, until destroyed by the al Qaeda terrorist attacks on 11-S were the highest in New York from his Construction in 1972. 55 percent of office space WTC Tower 1 already has tenants, including Condé Nast, owner of headers as The New Yorker or Vanity Fair, which last year signed an agreement to rent for 25 years a third part of the building.

Aung San Suu Kyi finally sit in Parliament

Members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) elected in parliamentary elections of April 1, gave up boycotting the Parliament, announced April 30 Aung San Suu KyiThey will make their debut as members on May 2, ten days later than originally planned. They had refused to sit as they had to swear the oath included the phrase "protect the Constitution". But the authorities did not accede to their request - they wanted appears the phrase "respect the Constitution." The reasons for this reversal are not clear. Coincidence or not, her announcement came moments before Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, takes the floor before the same Parliament. It is the first foreign dignitary to have been invited to speak before the deputies.