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Doesn’t want Al-Qaida chief’s Abbottabad home to become ‘sacred building for jihadis’
Kayani doesn’t back Zardari's no-first-use
nuke policy:
WikiLeaks
Gen Kayani
France expels 14 Libyan diplomats
Post-Gaddafi ‘road map’
No parallel between 9/11 & 26/11: US
Canine was 80th member of Navy Seals’ team!
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Pak to raze Osama’s hideout
Islamabad, May 6 The woman of Yemeni origin said bin Laden had been living in Abbottabad for the past five years, Geo News Channel quoted an unnamed senior Pakistani military officials as saying. Bin Laden usually confined himself to 2-3 rooms and never went outside, she told the officials. The report said women and children found in the compound included three wives of bin Laden. One of the women was injured in the firing. The military officials also said bin Laden's daughter, who was found in the compound, had told them that she had seen her father being killed on the upper floor of a building and then dragged down a flight of stairs. A woman killed during the raid, previously described in some accounts as bin Laden’s wife, was actually the wife of a Pakistani guard of the Al-Qaida leader, the officials were quoted as saying. — PTI
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Doesn’t want Al-Qaida chief’s Abbottabad home to become ‘sacred building for jihadis’
Islamabad, May 6 The compound, located about 800 yards from the Pakistan Military Academy, has been sealed by the army to gather any information that was left after a US special forces team raided it on Monday and killed the world's most wanted terrorist. “Like we have done in the past, we will also raze to the ground this building so that it should not become a sacred building for the jihadis,” an unnamed source from a security agency was quoted as saying by The News daily today. The security agencies had demolished Jamia Hafsa, a seminary affiliated to the radical Lal Masjid in Islamabad, after a military operation in 2007 to avoid “any bitter situation”, the source said. Authorities had not yet decided whether the media will be allowed to enter the compound, the report said. There was nothing left in the compound for security agencies and a decision to demolish it will be taken soon, it said. The walls of the compound are higher than normal for the area though almost every house in the Bilal Town neighbourhood of Abbottabad has barbed wire. The compound was built in such a location that it could not be seen easily unless one got really close to it. The compound had three portions - a big open area for farming, a built-up structure and a lawn on the north side. The land for the compound was bought by Arshad Khan, one of two Al-Qaida couriers killed along with bin Laden. — PTI
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Kayani doesn’t back Zardari's no-first-use
nuke policy: WikiLeaks
Washington, May 6 “Although he has remained silent on the subject, Kayani does not support Zardari's statement last year to the Indian press that Pakistan would adopt a 'no first use' policy on nuclear weapons.” “Despite increasing financial constraints, we believe that the military is proceeding with an expansion of both its growing strategic weapons and missile programs,” the “scenesetter” cables sent by the then US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson prior to Kayani's Washington visit between February 20-27, 2009, said. The major US concern has not been that an Islamic militant could steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in government of Pakistan's facilities could gradually smuggle enough fissile material out to eventually make a weapon and the vulnerability of weapons in transit, according to the recently released cables. — PTI
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France expels 14 Libyan diplomats
Paris, May 6 “France has declared persona non grata 14 Libyan ex-diplomats posted in France,” the ministry said in a statement, indicating that Paris no longer recognised their diplomatic status. “Depending on their case, those concerned have a deadline of 24 to 48 hours to leave French national territory.” The ministry accused them of “activities incompatible with the relevant UN resolutions ... and contrary to the protection of Libyan civilians,” citing the UN mandate under which international forces are bombing Gaddafi's strategic sites. France was the first foreign power to formally recognise the Transitional National Council, the political leadership of the rebels who are battling Gaddafi's forces. — AFP
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Post-Gaddafi ‘road map’
Rome: The Libyan opposition has outlined a political transition for the country if and when Muammar Gaddafi falls, telling an international conference of plans to install an interim government while a constitution is drafted and parliamentary elections held. Mahmoud Jibril, head of the opposition's Transitional National Council, briefed representatives of two dozen countries and organisations involved in Libya about a political "road map" for a post-Gaddafi Libya at a conference in Rome designed to better coordinate assistance to rebels. — AP
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No parallel between 9/11 & 26/11: US
Washington/Islamabad, May 6 The Obama Administration, however, said the attack on bin Laden's home on Sunday last in Abbottabad deep inside Pakistan that eliminated the 9/11 mastermind was clearly unique in the history of the US and the history of the world. “I don't want to speculate too broadly about an operation that was clearly unique in the history of the US and the history of the world, where we had an individual who was possibly the most wanted man in the world and had perpetrated heinous crimes against not only American citizens but citizens around the globe,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said in Washington. He was responding to question if the US policy of "right to self defense" applies to other countries including India as the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks are roaming freely inside Pakistan. “I don't want to draw too broadly a picture here. What we've said all along is that this was an individual where, when we had actionable intelligence against him, we acted upon that because we believed he was a direct and imminent threat to the United States,” Toner said. Toner said he is aware of all those terrorism related cases in India including the attack on the Indian Parliament and the Mumbai terrorist attack. — PTI Qaida ‘plotted’ 9/11 anniversary attack
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Canine was 80th member of Navy Seals’ team!
Washington, May 6 The four-legged recruit was strapped to an assault team member during the operation in which the special forces lowered themselves down ropes from the helicopters to storm the Al-Qaida leader's secret lair. It is unclear what the role of this particular canine was in raid but he was probably there to sniff out explosives, detect weapons or even apprehend fleeing suspects. The dog would have run down the 9/11 mastermind if he had tried to escape, according to the reports. The breed of the dog, who has not been named, was not known and he seems to have been unharmed in the operation and left with his team-mates. The identity of the military super-dog, like that of the 79 Navy Seals will remain a secret.— PTI
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Pakistan's army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani does not support President Asif Ali Zardari's “no-first-use” nuclear policy, according to US diplomatic cables released by whistle-blower website
WikiLeaks. “Although he has remained silent on the subject, Kayani does not support Zardari's statement last year to the Indian press that Pakistan would adopt a 'no first use' policy on nuclear weapons.”
