Thursday, May 5, 2011
Ramai enggan percaya Osama mati
JURUTEKNIK agensi berita menganalisis imej Osama selepas dibunuh yang diberi kepada media antarabangsa. - Foto AFP
NEW YORK: Teori konspirasi bahawa Osama bin Laden masih hidup mula tersebar sebaik saja Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama mengumumkan kejayaan membunuh pemimpin al-Qaeda itu.
Malah, ada keluarga mangsa serangan 11 September 2001 (9/11) di Amerika, turut mempersoalkannya.
Kerajaan Amerika memberitahu, Osama ditembak di kepalanya apabila pasukan elit tentera laut SEAL menyerbu laman rumah Osama di Abbotabad, Pakistan, sejak diburu sedekad lalu sebagai orang paling dikehendaki di dunia.
Tetapi, pengebumian di Laut Arab dalam sebuah beg mayat dan keengganan pihak berkuasa menyiarkan gambar mayatnya mengundang kecurigaan.
Satu yang kerap diutarakan ialah Osama sebenarnya adalah anggota Agensi Perisikan Pusat (CIA) yang sudah mati beberapa tahun lalu, tokoh rekaan yang digunakan untuk mewajarkan perang Amerika di Afghanistan.
Pandangan itu dikongsi bersama aktivis anti perang Amerika, Cindy Sheehan dan orang lain dari Indiana hingga ke Kabul.
“Jika kamu percaya kematian terkini OBL (Osama bin Laden), kamu bodoh,” tulis Sheehan dalam halaman Facebook.
Sheehan, yang membina khemah sebagai protes anti perang dekat kediaman Presiden George W. Bush di Texas pada 2005 mempertikaikan fakta diberikan kerajaan.
Beliau mempersoalkan bagaimana Amerika boleh dapat keputusan DNA Osama begitu cepat, mengapa pengebumian dilakukan dengan tergesa-gesa dan mengapa video mayat tidak disiarkan.
Sheehan juga merujuk kepada kenyataan bekas Presiden Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto yang mendakwa pada 2007 bahawa Osama sudah mati. Dia tidak keseorangan mempersoalkan perkara itu.
Laman internet Yahoo juga mendapati pencarian bagi ‘Osama bin Laden not dead,’ ‘Osama bin Laden still alive’ dan ‘bin laden not dead’ mengungguli carta berita pada Isnin lalu.
Ramai yang memikirkan Osama masih hidup, kata Yahoo, sambil menambah bahawa pencarian ‘bin laden conspiracy’ adalah paling banyak di kawasan Oregon, Wisconsin, Carolina Utara, Indiana dan New Jersey.
Di Iran, agensi berita separuh rasmi Mehr mengisytiharkan: “Kematian Osama adalah satu penipuan.”
Berita televisyen Iran menyatakan, mengebumikan mayat di laut menambahkan lagi misteri (kematian Osama).
Media Iran juga berpendapat, mitos Osama digunakan untuk mewajarkan pendudukan Amerika di negara jiran, Afghanistan.
Hampir 3,000 orang mati apabila pesawat yang ditawan pengikut Osama bin Laden terbang merempuh Pusat Dagangan Dunia (WTC), Pentagon dan sebuah padang di Pennsylvania pada 11 September 2001, mewujudkan satu buruan terhadap perancang serangan terbabit.
Taliban di Afghanistan dalam satu kenyataan disiarkan melalui halaman web mereka berkata bahawa perbincangan mengenai kematian Osama adalah tidak matang dan Amerika Syarikat tidak memberikan bukti yang meyakinkan.
Sesetengah penduduk Amerika Syarikat masih percayakan kepada teori konspirasi. Siapa sebenarnya menembak Presiden John F. Kennedy? Elvis Presley masih hidup! Adakah UFO mendarat di Roswell, New Mexico? Adakah 11 September direka oleh kepentingan Amerika untuk mewajarkan perang mereka di Afghanistan dan Iraq?
Di Ground Zero, New York lokasi dua menara berkembar pernah berdiri, kebanyakan masih lagi mempertikaikan adalah kematian Osama sesuatu yang baik dan benar.
“Saya benar-benar harap kita sudah hapuskan beliau. Mereka kebumikannya di laut. Siapa tahu apa sebenarnya berlaku,” kata pengurus projek, Sal Leto, 59. – Reuters sumber
bin Laden Raid Might Have Revealed a Secret New Helicopter
A picture of the tail rotor of the chopper that the Navy Seals' Team Six detonated revealed unfamiliar features. Reports say it could be a new, secret helicopter.
When the Team Six members reached Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad one of the choppers made a "controlled but hard landing," according to reports, probably due to higher than expected temperatures.
Temperatures affects the density of the air, and low density makes it harder for the rotor to sustain the weight of the chopper, especially if it was near its maximum weight (being packed with soldiers and fuel to fly in from Afghanistan). Abbottabad is about 1200 meters above the sea level, and altitude also affects air density.
So what machine exactly experienced the hard landing described above? Short answer: we don't know for sure. Long answer: It seems that the tail rotor visible in the picture belongs to a highly modified version of the H-60, the chopper of choice of the special forces for more than 30 years. Aviation Week doesn't beat around the bush, claiming: "A previously undisclosed, classified stealth helicopter apparently was part of the U.S. task force that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1."
Stealth technology on helicopters is not itself new, but the fact that a previously unknown machine was used in this raid is yet another proof of the degree of importance that this mission had for U.S. commanders.
Aviation Week then goes techie and explains what we can see from that picture: "Photos disseminated via the European PressPhoto agency and attributed to an anonymous stringer show that the helicopter’s tail features stealth-configured shapes on the boom and the tail rotor hub fairings, swept stabilizers and a 'dishpan' cover over a five-or-six-blade tail rotor. It has a silver-loaded infrared suppression finish similar to that seen on V-22s."
Low radar visibility was essential, for the Pakistani air force would have either scrambled its jets if an unknown threat to its airspace (and near the country's best military academy!) was detected, or fired its surface to air missiles. It's possibly more proof of the fact that Pakistan really knew nothing about the mission - or at least its first wave of attack - until it ended.
This would explain why the Seals wasted critically precious time to blew up the mysterious helicopter and why many experts had problems identifying its remains. It's unclear what Pakistan could have made of the downed chopper, but growing ties between Pakistani and Chinese armed forces could have made the destruction of such new machine a must. China and Pakistan, over the past two decades, have developed a multi role combat aircraft called JF-17 and an advanced trainer, the JL-8.
The Navy Seals usually fly in the famed Sikorsky UH-60, popularized by the movie Black Hawk Down, in which two UH-60 were shot down in Somalia, resulting in the death of 18 men.
Black Hawk Down was a scenario, insiders say, that together with first attempt to rescue the hostages held at the U.S. embassy in 1980 in Iran, that's been evoked constantly in the planning phases leading to the May 1 raid, as examples of potentially disastrous outcomes. (Via Aviation Week) source
The reall test of Obama
Now that bin Laden is dead, Obama is seen not as a geek but as a killer, not as a softy but as a fairly tough leader.
But if Obama does not stabilize the Middle East this summer, a regional avalanche will take place by summer’s end.
By Ari Shavit
Published 23:33 04.05.11
Nothing will help the American right wing, the Israeli right wing or Fox News now; the assassination of Osama bin Laden has given U.S. President Barack Obama a decided boost.
Now that bin Laden is dead, Obama is seen not as a geek but as a killer, not as a softy but as a fairly tough leader. The young man has successfully completed his coming-of-age ceremony. Combined with the burgeoning recovery of the economy and the president’s movement toward the political center, bin Laden’s death has turned Obama into a strong and authoritative leader. If he doesn’t make any big mistakes in the coming year, chances are good that he’ll continue living in the White House until 2016.
But Obama insists on making big mistakes. His Middle East policy is inconsistent and incoherent. His guiding principles are obtuse and bizarre. He supported the removal of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak from office but grants immunity to Syria’s Bashar Assad. He went to war to avoid a bloodbath in Libya, but won’t raise a finger to stop the massacres in Syria.
Weak leadership and a lack of moral clarity continue to characterize Obama. Instead of leading the Arab world to a good place, he’s being dragged along with it to a bad one.
One problem is Iran. The Arab spring has caused a situation in which no Sunni power except for Saudi Arabia now stands in the way of the ayatollahs. The revolutions in Arab countries have also improved the economic situation in Tehran by pushing up the price of oil. Improved strategic and economic positioning allow Iran to rush toward a nuclear reactor and erode America’s hegemony in the region.
Turkey poses another problem. In mid-June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to win reelection in a landslide victory. Right after that, the temporary respite he’s granted himself will end. Encouraged by the scope of his mandate to govern, this ambitious Islamist will try to build a neo-Ottoman Empire. He’ll work with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Iran to undermine the U.S. foothold in the Middle East.
The third problem is Palestine. As everyone knows, another Black September is in the offing. Palestinian Authority President Mohammed Abbas is provoking Obama by his plan to undermine Israeli stability with the expected international recognition of a Palestinian state and his reconciliation with bin Laden’s supporters in Gaza. If a Hamas-Fatah government leads to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s disappearance from the scene, the result will be the collapse of American’s peace policy.
The fourth problem, Egypt, is the most severe of all. Egypt is likely to go bankrupt by the end of the year because of the loss of income from tourism, the strengthening of the army’s monopoly and the new government’s inability to be anything other than populist. Mubarak was bad? The White House will be longing for him way before Christmas. The economic growth he created will contract. Poverty will turn into shortages, shortages into despair, despair into protest. The army will not be able to withstand the disappointment and rage.
Egypt will become a black hole.
There are no simple solutions to these four problems, none of which are Obama’s doing. Perhaps he hasn’t offered a genuine answer to any of these strategic problems because he did not understand that when he opened the Pandora’s box of the Middle East, he became responsible for what emerged from it. While Obama exhibited professional determination in taking care of Osama, he was hesitant and amateurish when it came to the fundamental problems of the Middle East.
Egypt is the most pressing problem. Two years ago Obama gave a very impressive speech in Cairo. Three months go he encouraged the revolution there. But now the U.S. president has disappeared. Where is the American plan to rebuild the Egyptian nation? Where is the international initiative to save the Egyptian economy? Where is the effort to do on the banks of the Nile what is being done in Ramallah?
The summer of 2011 is the summer of Barack Hussein Obama. If he does not stabilize the Middle East this summer, a regional avalanche will take place by summer’s end. Obama will bear personal responsibility if the Arab spring turns into a cold and bleak winter.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/with-bin-laden-dead-obama-has-to-turn-to-the-mideast-1.359863 source
But if Obama does not stabilize the Middle East this summer, a regional avalanche will take place by summer’s end.
By Ari Shavit
Published 23:33 04.05.11
Nothing will help the American right wing, the Israeli right wing or Fox News now; the assassination of Osama bin Laden has given U.S. President Barack Obama a decided boost.
Now that bin Laden is dead, Obama is seen not as a geek but as a killer, not as a softy but as a fairly tough leader. The young man has successfully completed his coming-of-age ceremony. Combined with the burgeoning recovery of the economy and the president’s movement toward the political center, bin Laden’s death has turned Obama into a strong and authoritative leader. If he doesn’t make any big mistakes in the coming year, chances are good that he’ll continue living in the White House until 2016.
But Obama insists on making big mistakes. His Middle East policy is inconsistent and incoherent. His guiding principles are obtuse and bizarre. He supported the removal of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak from office but grants immunity to Syria’s Bashar Assad. He went to war to avoid a bloodbath in Libya, but won’t raise a finger to stop the massacres in Syria.
Weak leadership and a lack of moral clarity continue to characterize Obama. Instead of leading the Arab world to a good place, he’s being dragged along with it to a bad one.
One problem is Iran. The Arab spring has caused a situation in which no Sunni power except for Saudi Arabia now stands in the way of the ayatollahs. The revolutions in Arab countries have also improved the economic situation in Tehran by pushing up the price of oil. Improved strategic and economic positioning allow Iran to rush toward a nuclear reactor and erode America’s hegemony in the region.
Turkey poses another problem. In mid-June, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to win reelection in a landslide victory. Right after that, the temporary respite he’s granted himself will end. Encouraged by the scope of his mandate to govern, this ambitious Islamist will try to build a neo-Ottoman Empire. He’ll work with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Iran to undermine the U.S. foothold in the Middle East.
The third problem is Palestine. As everyone knows, another Black September is in the offing. Palestinian Authority President Mohammed Abbas is provoking Obama by his plan to undermine Israeli stability with the expected international recognition of a Palestinian state and his reconciliation with bin Laden’s supporters in Gaza. If a Hamas-Fatah government leads to PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s disappearance from the scene, the result will be the collapse of American’s peace policy.
The fourth problem, Egypt, is the most severe of all. Egypt is likely to go bankrupt by the end of the year because of the loss of income from tourism, the strengthening of the army’s monopoly and the new government’s inability to be anything other than populist. Mubarak was bad? The White House will be longing for him way before Christmas. The economic growth he created will contract. Poverty will turn into shortages, shortages into despair, despair into protest. The army will not be able to withstand the disappointment and rage.
Egypt will become a black hole.
There are no simple solutions to these four problems, none of which are Obama’s doing. Perhaps he hasn’t offered a genuine answer to any of these strategic problems because he did not understand that when he opened the Pandora’s box of the Middle East, he became responsible for what emerged from it. While Obama exhibited professional determination in taking care of Osama, he was hesitant and amateurish when it came to the fundamental problems of the Middle East.
Egypt is the most pressing problem. Two years ago Obama gave a very impressive speech in Cairo. Three months go he encouraged the revolution there. But now the U.S. president has disappeared. Where is the American plan to rebuild the Egyptian nation? Where is the international initiative to save the Egyptian economy? Where is the effort to do on the banks of the Nile what is being done in Ramallah?
The summer of 2011 is the summer of Barack Hussein Obama. If he does not stabilize the Middle East this summer, a regional avalanche will take place by summer’s end. Obama will bear personal responsibility if the Arab spring turns into a cold and bleak winter.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/with-bin-laden-dead-obama-has-to-turn-to-the-mideast-1.359863 source
Obama: No doubt Bin Laden is dead but we won't release photos
Reuters has posted photos of the raid in Bin Laden's house which include pictures of at least two dead persons. Neither person in the photos is Osama Bin Laden (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
According to Reuters, the pictures were sold to them by someone who wishes to remain anonymous.
President Obama told CBS News' Steve Kroft on Wednesday night that he will not allow images of a dead Osama Bin Laden to be released.
Let's go to the videotape.
According to Reuters, the pictures were sold to them by someone who wishes to remain anonymous.
President Obama told CBS News' Steve Kroft on Wednesday night that he will not allow images of a dead Osama Bin Laden to be released.
Let's go to the videotape.
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Pakistanis protest Bin Laden's death and burn the American Flag
As above, they hold a funeral without the body and protest his death, or as the Telegraph call's it "a Memorial".
The Death of Bin Laden: reactions from the crowd outside the White House
Freethink Media's man-on-the-street video captures the thoughts and emotions of Americans celebrating outside the White House into the wee hours of the night after the announcement of Osama Bin Laden's death.
Photos show three dead men at bin Laden raid house - Credit: Reuters
Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.
The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.
None of the men looked like bin Laden. President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool, the White House said on Wednesday
The unidentified body of a man is seen after a raid by U.S. Navy SEAL commandos on the compound where al Qaeda leader bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad
The grounds of the compound are seen after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad
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The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.
None of the men looked like bin Laden. President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool, the White House said on Wednesday
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