A day after the Osama killing: Blog
Nearly 10 years after the traumatic Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon, the world's most wanted terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan.
9: 45 pm: Pakistan's president on Tuesday denied suggestions that his government may have sheltered Osama bin Laden but admitted his security forces were left out of a US raid to kill the al Qaeda chief. US officials kept Pakistani authorities in the dark out of concern that they might "alert the targets" and jeopardize the special forces assault on Monday that ended a long manhunt for bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta told Time magazine. Here is the full story
9: 30 pm: High turnout in Bengal; Singur, Nandigram vote Former volatile spots Singur and Nandigram voted Tuesday as millions exercised their franchise in 63 constituencies of four districts in the fourth phase of West Bengal assembly elections. As many as 84.55 percent of 1.26 crore people voted during the day, sources in the chief electoral officer's office said. When polling ended at 5 p.m., many men and women were still in queues to vote.
9: 15 pm: Search for missing Arunachal CM now extends to Bhutan
With the search at high altitude Banggajang and Nagarjiji yielding no results, the search teams have been concentrating at five more locations including Putujiji in Bhutan to trace out the missing chopper of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. More
8: 45 pm: Taliban express doubt that bin Laden is dead
The Taliban cast suspicion on the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, saying they would not believe the al-Qaida leader was dead until they had seen proof or received confirmation from sources close to him.Though US officials have said they confirmed bin Laden's identity both with face-mapping software and DNA tests, the lack of photos of the body and its burial at sea have raised doubts in Afghanistan and Pakistan that the man who evaded American detection for so long has actually been killed.
8: 20 pm: The United States may release later on Tuesday photos of Osama bin Laden's burial at sea but no final decision has been made, a US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
8: 00 pm: Pakistan has bin Laden wife, children in custody
A senior Pakistani intelligence official said one of Osama bin Laden's daughters had seen her father being shot dead by US forces, and was one of about 10 relatives of the al Qaeda leader in custody pending interrogation. Read more
7: 45 pm: No proof Pakistanis knew bin Laden location: USThere is no evidence Pakistani officials knew Osama bin Laden was living at a compound deep inside the country, but the United States is not ruling out the possibility, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said. Here is the full story
7: 30 pm: US believes it can now destroy al Qaeda:
The United States will aim to destroy al Qaeda's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by US operations, a top White House adviser said. Here is the full story
7: 10 pm: 250,000 more NYTs printed for US newsstands today. 10-page special section on Osama bin Laden raid, analysis.
6: 30 pm: The Dummies' Guide to Identifying a Dead Osama:One of the questions most commonly asked in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's killing was, how did the US manage to identify him so quickly -- and what makes them so sure it's him anyway? Courtesy Scientific American, here are the answers.
Essential Reading
So, through the day, we brought you links to interesting stories about Osama bin Laden -- all of them topical and current. As we get to that time of evening when you contemplate putting your feet up, here's another selection -- of great longform articles on Osama. NB: This list does not include articles already linked to over the last couple of days.
1. The brilliant Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, on the Egyptian doctor turned terrorist Ayman al-Zawihiri, the man tipped to take over the al Qaeda network.
2. The child is father of the man, reckons Steve Coll, as he goes looking for clues into the mental makeup of Osama in the terrorist's old school where he spent his formative years. More
3. Omar bin Laden, whose surreal interview in Rolling Stone magazine we had linked to yesterday, profiles his father Osama for Vanity Fair magazine.
4. Back in February 1999, John Miller interviewed Osama bin Laden for Esquire magazine. The story of his travels to get to Osama is as interesting as the interview itself, with the man who in less than two years was to become America's Most Wanted.
5. A detailed, and superbly atmospheric, Newsweek cover story, circa 2007, on the hunt for bin Laden.
6. And finally: Rambo movies are made of these. From GQ, the story of 50 year old Gary Faulkner, the man who armed with a sword, a pair of night vision goggles, and the presumed blessings of his god, wandered the most dangerous part of the world on the self-imposed mission of capturing or killing Osama.
5: 45 pm: The Wall Street Journal reports that the Obama administration will probe whether Pakistani authorities helped to hide Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. The administration's top counter-terrorism officer, John Brennan, is quoted as saying it was “inconceivable” that bin Laden didn't have a significant “support system” in Pakistan, while Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Senator Carl Levin said the Pakistan army and its intelligence agency "have a lot of questions to answer".
5: 20 pm: Smitha Prakash of ANI travels to Kashmir, and comes back with the sense that the one-time paradise on earth has been turned into a refugee city. An outtake from Smitha's piece:
"Spring is indeed beautiful in Jammu. The well manicured lawns in the up-market localities where huge houses owned by either serving or retired government employees have large blossoms and chirping birds. Traffic stops for police and army officers and senior politicians. There is an overpowering presence of government here.
I travel to the outskirts of the city, to Basti Chak Bhoopat, a hamlet occupied by Hindu refugees who fled from the newly formed country of Pakistan in 1947. There are about 20,000 'West Pakistanis' as they call themselves, along the 200 odd kilometers of the Line of Control (LOC) in this region. They are the 'nowhere people' of Jammu and Kashmir.
The state does not give them a 'Permanent Resident Certificate' because they migrated from the Punjab province of the newly formed Pakistan in 1947. Geographically, a large part of Jammu sits cheek by jowl with the Punjab province of Pakistan.
This certificate is only given to those whose ancestors lived in the united Jammu and Kashmir state before 1954.
I met with several of the displaced persons who now are now second and third generation refugees. They live in abject poverty, and are not eligible for government jobs or even bank loans, as for all administrative purposes, they don't exist! They occupied homes and lands vacated by Muslims who migrated to Pakistan. But they don't possess any ownership papers so they can't sell their property either.
Since they cannot vote for assembly or panchayat elections, they do not have any political representation in the state."
Read the whole story to know what happens to the ordinary people while politicians, militants and sundry others play their deadly games.
5: 10 pm: The Taliban in Pakistan have threatened to avenge the killing of Osama. Geo News reported that the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said in an audio message, “Pakistan will be the prime target”.
Nearly 10 years after the traumatic Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon, the world's most wanted terrorist leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan.
9: 45 pm: Pakistan's president on Tuesday denied suggestions that his government may have sheltered Osama bin Laden but admitted his security forces were left out of a US raid to kill the al Qaeda chief. US officials kept Pakistani authorities in the dark out of concern that they might "alert the targets" and jeopardize the special forces assault on Monday that ended a long manhunt for bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta told Time magazine. Here is the full story
9: 30 pm: High turnout in Bengal; Singur, Nandigram vote Former volatile spots Singur and Nandigram voted Tuesday as millions exercised their franchise in 63 constituencies of four districts in the fourth phase of West Bengal assembly elections. As many as 84.55 percent of 1.26 crore people voted during the day, sources in the chief electoral officer's office said. When polling ended at 5 p.m., many men and women were still in queues to vote.
9: 15 pm: Search for missing Arunachal CM now extends to Bhutan
With the search at high altitude Banggajang and Nagarjiji yielding no results, the search teams have been concentrating at five more locations including Putujiji in Bhutan to trace out the missing chopper of Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu. More
8: 45 pm: Taliban express doubt that bin Laden is dead
The Taliban cast suspicion on the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, saying they would not believe the al-Qaida leader was dead until they had seen proof or received confirmation from sources close to him.Though US officials have said they confirmed bin Laden's identity both with face-mapping software and DNA tests, the lack of photos of the body and its burial at sea have raised doubts in Afghanistan and Pakistan that the man who evaded American detection for so long has actually been killed.
8: 20 pm: The United States may release later on Tuesday photos of Osama bin Laden's burial at sea but no final decision has been made, a US official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
8: 00 pm: Pakistan has bin Laden wife, children in custody
A senior Pakistani intelligence official said one of Osama bin Laden's daughters had seen her father being shot dead by US forces, and was one of about 10 relatives of the al Qaeda leader in custody pending interrogation. Read more
7: 45 pm: No proof Pakistanis knew bin Laden location: USThere is no evidence Pakistani officials knew Osama bin Laden was living at a compound deep inside the country, but the United States is not ruling out the possibility, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser said. Here is the full story
7: 30 pm: US believes it can now destroy al Qaeda:
The United States will aim to destroy al Qaeda's central organization now that its leader Osama bin Laden has been killed and its capabilities degraded by US operations, a top White House adviser said. Here is the full story
7: 10 pm: 250,000 more NYTs printed for US newsstands today. 10-page special section on Osama bin Laden raid, analysis.
6: 30 pm: The Dummies' Guide to Identifying a Dead Osama:One of the questions most commonly asked in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's killing was, how did the US manage to identify him so quickly -- and what makes them so sure it's him anyway? Courtesy Scientific American, here are the answers.
Essential Reading
So, through the day, we brought you links to interesting stories about Osama bin Laden -- all of them topical and current. As we get to that time of evening when you contemplate putting your feet up, here's another selection -- of great longform articles on Osama. NB: This list does not include articles already linked to over the last couple of days.
1. The brilliant Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower, on the Egyptian doctor turned terrorist Ayman al-Zawihiri, the man tipped to take over the al Qaeda network.
2. The child is father of the man, reckons Steve Coll, as he goes looking for clues into the mental makeup of Osama in the terrorist's old school where he spent his formative years. More
3. Omar bin Laden, whose surreal interview in Rolling Stone magazine we had linked to yesterday, profiles his father Osama for Vanity Fair magazine.
4. Back in February 1999, John Miller interviewed Osama bin Laden for Esquire magazine. The story of his travels to get to Osama is as interesting as the interview itself, with the man who in less than two years was to become America's Most Wanted.
5. A detailed, and superbly atmospheric, Newsweek cover story, circa 2007, on the hunt for bin Laden.
6. And finally: Rambo movies are made of these. From GQ, the story of 50 year old Gary Faulkner, the man who armed with a sword, a pair of night vision goggles, and the presumed blessings of his god, wandered the most dangerous part of the world on the self-imposed mission of capturing or killing Osama.
5: 20 pm: Smitha Prakash of ANI travels to Kashmir, and comes back with the sense that the one-time paradise on earth has been turned into a refugee city. An outtake from Smitha's piece:
"Spring is indeed beautiful in Jammu. The well manicured lawns in the up-market localities where huge houses owned by either serving or retired government employees have large blossoms and chirping birds. Traffic stops for police and army officers and senior politicians. There is an overpowering presence of government here.
I travel to the outskirts of the city, to Basti Chak Bhoopat, a hamlet occupied by Hindu refugees who fled from the newly formed country of Pakistan in 1947. There are about 20,000 'West Pakistanis' as they call themselves, along the 200 odd kilometers of the Line of Control (LOC) in this region. They are the 'nowhere people' of Jammu and Kashmir.
The state does not give them a 'Permanent Resident Certificate' because they migrated from the Punjab province of the newly formed Pakistan in 1947. Geographically, a large part of Jammu sits cheek by jowl with the Punjab province of Pakistan.
This certificate is only given to those whose ancestors lived in the united Jammu and Kashmir state before 1954.
I met with several of the displaced persons who now are now second and third generation refugees. They live in abject poverty, and are not eligible for government jobs or even bank loans, as for all administrative purposes, they don't exist! They occupied homes and lands vacated by Muslims who migrated to Pakistan. But they don't possess any ownership papers so they can't sell their property either.
Since they cannot vote for assembly or panchayat elections, they do not have any political representation in the state."
Read the whole story to know what happens to the ordinary people while politicians, militants and sundry others play their deadly games.
5: 10 pm: The Taliban in Pakistan have threatened to avenge the killing of Osama. Geo News reported that the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said in an audio message, “Pakistan will be the prime target”.
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