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Friday, May 4, 2012

Osama bin Laden, revealed 17 letters

The Counterterrorism Center of the Academy West Point, U.S. Army, today released 17 of the nearly 6,000 documents seized in May 2011, soldiers of special forces killed the leader of al Qaeda in their home in Abbottabad (Pakistan ). The documents, found in the residence to five computers, dozens of "hard disks" and more hundred archives show that bin Laden until his death continued to plan new terror attacks against U.S. large scale. Some reveal that Bin Laden understood that the actions of groups like Al Qaeda in Iraq discredited the organization led by network the killings of civilians and the televised beheading of captives. Bin Laden, 54 years old when he was killed soldiers of the unit of elite SEALS U.S. Navy, had fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan in December 2001, three months after the terrorist attacks of Al Qaeda in New York and Washington that left more than 3,000 people killed and injured. The leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda were divided on the strategy, tactics, and the future of the movement. This conclusion suggests documents in the storming of the bin store have been found property. A total of 6,000 documents in Pakistani hideout of Al-Qaeda leaders on 2 Discovered in May 2011. 17 of them were on Thursday by the " Center for Combating Terrorism published "The Military Academy at West Point. The 175-page document (about 200 pages in English translation) also includes correspondence with other high-ranking Al Qaeda members, many of which bear the stamp of Bin Laden.
Attack on Obama and Petraeus
In an undated and unsigned letter is thought even by a change in the name of Al-Qaeda. The author proposes several names with a stronger Islamic terms in order to strengthen the identification of Muslims with the terrorist network. How U.S. media reported earlier, the records also show that the Al-Qaeda leader to assassinate U.S. President Obama was considering. Vice-President Joe Biden, said Bin Laden was on the presidency "completely unprepared" and the United States would automatically fall into a state of crisis.Even General David Petraeus, former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, was a potential target."The death of Petraeus would have serious effects on the course of the war," said bin Laden.
Arab spring a "colossal event"
The Arab Spring called the terror chief in a letter dated April 2011, a "colossal event" in the recent history of the Muslims.But he warned against "half measures", such as to engage in the new democratic system and to form political parties. A media campaign should call Muslims who have not gone against their rulers on the road to to revolt.In Afghanistan, I wanted to continue charging the fight against the Americans. He believed that the war in the Hindu Kush would weaken the United States so much that the West would no longer be able to prevent revolutions in other countries of the Islamic world and to support Arab dictators.
Dissatisfied with offshoots
According to the 64-page summary of the documents , there were heated discussions about the regional offshoot Al-Qaeda's Bin Laden and other members of the terrorist organization. The Al-Qaeda boss complained, inter alia, the incompetence of the local stores. Above all, the Iraqi offshoot him to have committed too many errors. The American al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn urged Bin Laden even to distance themselves from the Iraqi terrorists. The leader of the Yemeni arm of Al-Qaeda (AQAP) suggested bin Laden, not to pursue expansion plans and to establish an Islamic emirate in the south not the Arabian Peninsula. A piece of advice that the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ignored - the group now controls parts of southern Yemen.Critical saw the Al-Qaeda militant Somali Islamist leader and the al-Shabaab movement. Bin Laden saw little need for an alliance with the opinion of his ill-organized group. After the death of bin Laden, the transaction was however a reality. Al-Shabaab announced in early 2012 their alliance with al-Qaeda.
Concern over drone attacks
In the 17 published documents, bin Laden also shows concern over U.S. drone attacks on suspected Al-Qaeda positions in Pakistan (more on the interactive map ). For theCNN -terrorism expert Peter Bergen tended bin storeincreasingly to take care of every little thing - a sign of hisdesperate attempt to take control of the Al-Qaeda to retain and continue to "significantly" to be . He had fallen into a situation allies in North Africa, to plant trees so they could hide in case of drone and other attacks including. Overall, the analyst said, reflected the increasing isolation of the paper binLaden in the six years, against which he had been hiding in Pakistan. 

Missile Defense: Russia threatens pre-emptive strikes


The words between Moscow and Washington are sharper. Now Russia has announced an unprecedented threat pronounced. The U.S. does not back off from plans to implement a missile defense system in Europe could be a preventive strike can not be excluded. Three weeks before the NATO Summit in Chicago that fueled the controversy considerably. Washington's plans are destabilizing and massively endangered the strategic security of Russia, said chief of staff Nikolai Makarov on Thursday at a meeting with defense officials of NATO countries in Moscow. Kremlin leader Dmitry Medvedev warned in a welcoming address to participants of a new arms race, should the United States to implement their existing plans. The head of the U.S. delegation, Ellen Tauscher, dismissed the criticism as "unconvincing" back. They called for further negotiations between Russia and NATO. "The talks are at an impasse," however, said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. "When will the U.S. and NATO consider it possible, while ensuring their own safety to leave the safety of their neighbors in mind, then we have no other choice than to take appropriate countermeasures," Makarov warned. He reiterated that Russia agree a joint missile defense with only one line status and was again threatened with the withdrawal from arms control treaties. NATO currently provides two separate, albeit closely integrated systems. Moscow's Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev warned, according to the Interfax news agency that the U.S. project in six years Russia could intercept ballistic missiles. He again demanded written guarantees from the U.S. that the immune system is not directed against the greatest country on earth. Corrective steps are not only the deployment of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad around the former Konigsberg on the Baltic Sea, but also their use for the destruction of components of the Western defense shield planned, Makarov emphasized. So far, Russia has threatened to deploy defensive systems, but not so open with their possible use. The threat of missiles from North Korea and Iran, which is directed against the U.S. project reportedly called Moscow's chief of staff "thought". The chief of international affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, Alexander Vershbow, has accused Russia to start with "false information". "We do not have the desire to undermine global strategic stability," he said in Moscow. The two-day conference brings together more than 200 participants from 50 countries.

Sudan and Southern Sudan: UN Security Council calls for immediate ceasefire


The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a resolution at a meeting, according to Sudan and Southern Sudan immediately cease all violence and to unconditionally withdraw their respective forces. China's UN representative Li Baodong stressed that the international community should take in terms of relations between Sudan and southern Sudan, an objective, fair and balanced viewpoint. The mediation efforts of the African Union should not be disturbed. Sudan and Southern Sudan should support the mediation by AU and the international community actively. Only in this way could solve relevant issues as soon as possible, Sudan's oil minister Awad Ahmed Jaz told the same day, which was last month by southern Sudanese troops attacked Heglig oil field started production again already.

Sarkozy will win

Contrary to all the polls and the impressions left by the television face to face Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande , the French president on Sunday achieved re-election with 50.2% of the vote, according to Bruno Jerome, a political scientist at the University Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, one of the most reputed schools of France in the field of Law, Economics, Political Science and Business Management. As the margin of error given by this model is + / - 1.7%, Jerome also given a chance to win Hollande, although certainly much that much of the 11.1% of votes of the Left Front of Jean-Luc Melenchon going to go in the second round to a Hollande "pro-European, socially liberal and that the debate was quite firm with immigration." 'With 43.7% of the first round, the left is far from 50%, "says the professor. "And in the Fifth Republic, the left has had to have 49% in the first round to win in the second." The model we drove, which is a statistical model, not a poll, said that Sarkozy will win by a whisker, with 50.2% of votes. With a margin of error of 1.7%, which translates into a fork of 48.5% to 51.9%. We reached it after relating the results of the first round with economic variables, political, balance of power in the regions, regional unemployment rates, the popularity of outgoing President, the income per family policy. The conclusion is a result very tight, with little advantage to the right.