Rally in honor of bin Laden in Pakistan

Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday in Quetta, a city in south western Pakistan , to render homage to Osama bin Laden, killed a year ago in this country by U.S. special forces in Abbottabad , a town in the foothills of the Himalayas, in a house located a few hundred meters from the largest military academy of Pakistan.

 "LONG LIVE OSAMA"

Over 500 activists of the religious party Jamiat-Ulema-e- Islam , near the Taliban, gathered in the square Mezan, in the city center: they sported portraits of the dead chief of Al-Qaeda , chanting "Long Osama life! " , and set fire to a flag of the United States."Osama was a hero of the entire Muslim world, it was a true mujahid [a warrior of Islam] , launched before the crowd Abdul Qadir Looni, an official policy . Today, we gathered for him to honor. He will be forever in our hearts. " Demonstrators also prayed for Mullah Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban. Islamabad has set up a commission of inquiry into this matter which has to date published any findings. The deadly U.S. raid on Bin Laden, triggered without having warned the Pakistani government, has contributed, with other incidents, seriously damaging the relationship between the United States and Pakistan, their key ally in the region since late 2001.