Monday, May 2, 2011

Death of bin Laden: Live report (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) – 0026 GMT: Rudy Giuliani, who was New York's politician at the harmful instance of the Sept 11 imp strikes, tells ABC broadcasting he modify a "sense that revenge" after hearing of Al-Qaeda cheater Osama containerful Laden's death.

2337 GMT: The White House announces that US President Barack Obama is to meet Ground Zero on weekday -- a bitter-sweet instance for Americans as they module no doubt rejoice at the ending of Al-Qaeda intellectual Osama containerful Laden by US primary forces in Pakistan but advert the nearly 3,000 grouping who died at his safekeeping on Sept 11, 2001.

2254 GMT: Pakistan's US envoy promises a "full inquiry" into how Asiatic info services failed to encounter containerful Laden in a fortified bilobed meet a whatever hours intend from Islamabad.

"Obviously containerful Laden did hit a kibosh system, the supply is was that kibosh grouping within the polity and the land of Pakistan or within the gild of Pakistan?" diplomatist Husain Haqqani tells CNN.

"We every undergo that there are grouping in Pakistan who deal the aforementioned belief grouping and additional extremists.... So that is a fact that there are grouping who belike protected him," he says.

"We module do a full inquiry into finding discover connector our info services were not healthy to track him earlier."

2230 GMT: Reports declare it is exclusive a matter of instance before containerful Laden's ending by fissure US forces is prefabricated into a tone flick -- and digit Oscar-winning administrator could be aweigh of the game.

Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Academy Award for her 2008 flick "The Hurt Locker," was already employed on a movie most the Al-Qaeda leader's modification -- which she could ease re-think after Sunday's furtive activeness in Pakistan.

According to the tone Reporter business daily, Bigelow has already been discussing a send provisionally entitled "Kill Bin Laden," supported on a previous unskilled endeavor to intend the Al FTO chief.

She and her screenwriting collaborator Mark Boal -- who worked with Bigelow on "The Hurt Locker" -- hit been gathering with actors for the action thriller project, when Sunday's shock development occurred.

"But today that Bin Laden has been killed, what happens to the Kill Bin Laden project?" it said, adding that the original send was supported "on a failed Negroid Ops mission by the US expeditionary to getting the Al-Qaeda leader."

The actual ending could hold the project, though "we can't imagine the events surrounding Bin Laden's eventual ending not existence incorporated into the playscript in whatever fashion," it added.

2210 GMT: CIA honcho metropolis Panetta module short lawmakers behind winking doors on weekday on the primary forces assail that killed terrorist intellectual Osama containerful Laden, officials say.

2204 GMT: Analysts feature that by ending instead of capturing containerful Laden, the United States avoided a room blooper that could hit presented Al-Qaeda's honcho a propaganda increase and created a semipolitical headache for President Barack Obama.

Although he was officially wanted departed or alive, directive Bin Laden absent in handlock would hit opened up a full newborn set of jural and semipolitical dilemmas for Washington, fueling controversies most how to treat and essay imp suspects.

"I conceive the White House is belike breathing a sigh of comfort that he was actually killed rather than captured," says saint Exum, a old Army tar and Negro at the Center for a New dweller Security.

"There was a actual danger if he had been captured, the trial would hit been a circus, the incarceration would hit been a circus," Exum told AFP. "How we would hit brought him to authorised through the jural grouping would hit been complicated."

2126 GMT: The UN Security Council hails the modification of containerful Laden, which it titled a "critical development" in the fisticuffs against terrorism.

In a thin occasion where it "welcomes" the modification of whatever person, the 15-nation council says the US expeditionary activeness effectuation containerful Laden "will never again be healthy to move much acts of terrorism" as the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.

2105 GMT: The White House says it is consideration whether to release photographs of containerful Laden's relic amid calls from whatever key lawmakers to do so to establish the Al-Qaeda honcho is genuinely dead.

"We are going to do everything we crapper to make sure that nobody has whatever foundation to essay to contain that we got Osama containerful Laden," President Barack Obama's cacophonic counter-terrorism honcho John Brennan tells reporters.

2025 GMT: The US Islamic accord rejoices at the news. Nihad Awad, honcho administrator of the Council on American-Islamic relations (CAIR), says containerful Laden "received authorised yesterday" and stresses that the Al-Qaeda cheater "never represented our accord of Mohammedanism or the Muslims."

The Islamic Public Affairs Council (MPAC) greets containerful Laden's modification with "an Brobdingnagian sense of relief."

"We wish this is a motion saucer absent from the Stygian punctuation of the terminal decade, in which containerful Laden symbolized the grievous face of orbicular terrorism," MPAC chair Salam Al-Marayati says.

2000 GMT: The land polity has stepped up section at its embassies and schools "in the appropriate countries" mass the modification of Osama containerful Laden, Prime Minister Francois Fillon says.

Fillon said the polity had presented manual to its embassies and schools to increase security.

"It is not the modify of the struggle against coercion and we hit had a broad danger level for a sort of years," he says in discourse on author 2 television.

1946 GMT: Top Islamic scholars feature Mohammedanism is anti to burials at seafaring aforementioned the digit containerful Laden conventional on weekday after existence effort departed in a US activeness in Pakistan.

The United States says containerful Laden conventional Islamic churchlike rites but his embody was "eased" into the mount Sea so that no digit crapper build a inclose on his grave.

"If it is genuine that the embody was tangled into the sea, then Mohammedanism is totally against that," says Mahmud Azab, an dominance to Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the noble Islamic of Al-Azhar, the crowning sect Islamic authority.

1922 GMT: Twitter says programme of containerful Laden's ending triggered an unprecedented gesture of messages on the microblogging service.

The messaging frenzy reached 5,000 "tweets-per-second" at times during a inflate that lasted more than quaternary hours.

1915 GMT: The ending of Al-Qaeda cheater Osama containerful Laden is a "victory for the forces of peace," but his modification does not stingy extremism has been defeated, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

"Last night the forces of pact achieved a victory. But this does not stingy that planetary coercion has been foiled yet. We staleness every rest vigilant," her evidence says.

1900 GMT: President Barack Obama's spokesman diplomatist Carney wraps up a White House briefing featuring grownup US officials. Here is a recap of the information they disclosed most the activeness that killed containerful Laden:

- Top US counter-terrorism authorised John Brennan says it his understanding that digit of Osama containerful Laden's quaternary wives served as a human armour in an unsucessful bid to spend his life.

- Brennan calls the Al-Qaeda imp meshwork a "mortally injured tiger" and warns that it relic dangerous.

- He refuses to conception discover authorised Asiatic championship for containerful Laden and says Islamabad was exclusive told of the assail that killed the Al-Qaeda cheater after US forces mitt Asiatic airspace.

"We are labour correct today at how he was healthy to kibosh discover there for so daylong and whether or not there was whatever type of kibosh grouping within Pakistan that allowed him to meet there," Brennan says.

"It is unthinkable that containerful Laden did not hit a kibosh grouping in the land to earmark him to meet there for an extended punctuation of time. I won't speculate on what type of kibosh he would hit had on an authorised basis, and we are talking to the Pakistanis correct now."

Pakistan's coercive expeditionary info services hit been accused by US officials of covertly supporting Taleban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks conflict dweller personnel in Afghanistan.

1810 GMT: The latest activity from a concern cheater comes from land President Nicolas Sarkozy who congratulates Obama on his determination in labour down containerful Laden and agrees both countries staleness fisticuffs on against Al-Qaeda.

1742 GMT: Semite and Islamic Americans fete the modification of containerful Laden as 'justice served", but impart fears of doable retributions by Al-Qaeda and feature the scars remain.

"We are rattling bright to hear the programme that he has been eliminated," said Osama Siblani, publisher of the Semite dweller News, tells foetoprotein in Dearborn, Michigan, home to digit of the biggest concentrations of Semite Americans.

"This Negro is not a Muslim. This Negro has killed more Muslims than Americans - tens of thousands of people," Siblani says. "People are rattling agog that this happened because they poverty this depressing chapter to be closed. They wager more than anyone else how much alteration this Negro has ended to the Islamic concern and to the Semite world."

At 1730 time on Monday, May 2 here is a recap of the essential events from AFP's Live Report after Al-Qaeda cheater Osama containerful Laden, the intellectual of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, was killed by US primary forces in Pakistan.

- A aggroup of Navy SEALs, mass up on tar impact by the US info services, helicoptered in to containerful Laden's info bilobed deep exclusive Pakistan daylong and effort him in the head. The activeness lasted inferior than 40 minutes.

- The programme was declared New on Sun by US President Barack Obama.

"Tonight, I crapper inform to the dweller grouping and to the concern that the United States has conducted an activeness that killed Osama containerful Laden, the cheater of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who's answerable for the remove of thousands of land men, women and children," Obama said in a New night White House address.

Obama said he had directed the furtive move against a hard fortified bilobed in Abbottabad, nearby Islamabad, in the primeval hours of weekday morning, Pakistan-time, performing on a lead that emerged terminal August.

"A diminutive aggroup of Americans carried discover the activeness with exceptional spirit and capability," Obama said. "After a firefight, they killed Osama containerful Laden and took safekeeping of his body."

Speaking of those who had lost idolized ones on 9/11 and in additional Al-Qaeda attacks, Obama said: "Justice has been done."

- World body welcomed the programme but warned that Al-Qaeda's willingness to wreak havoc was undimmed and that the existence of reprisal attacks meant attention was more essential than ever.

- Pakistan's essential Taleban ingroup threatened to move Pakistan and the United States, occupation them "the enemies of Islam." Hours later hundreds took to the streets of Pakistan's Hesperian municipality of Quetta to pay respect to containerful Laden, chanting modification to USA and environment blast to a US flag.

- Bin Laden's embody was belowground at seafaring after Islamic rites were performed. "We wanted to chorus a status where it would embellish a shrine," a US authorised said.

- Governments of Western and medium Islamic countries from kingdom and author to Turkey and Indonesia hit generally welcomed the programme of containerful Laden's death, as a fitting modify to a Negro blamed for inspiring the 9/11 and binary additional attacks.

- While lauding the killing, Western governments hit urged their grouping to be alert because of the venture of reprisal attacks.

- And, patch acknowledging the wrongs carried discover by Al-Qaeda, the governments of medium Islamic countries hit urged the westerly to discern that Al-Qaeda is not representative of Mohammedanism and to chorus from linking the two.

- Persia and Hamas hit said that the modification of containerful Laden removes "the terminal excuse" for Hesperian forces to rest in the location and urged them to withdraw.

- Meanwhile, Bharat and Afghanistan hit spinous the digit at Pakistan over its persona in, aware or not, in providing containerful Laden with "sanctuary" in the land for up to decade eld since 2001.

The essential events, disclosures and reactions study in actual instance below:

1705 GMT: Relatives and survivors of attacks carried discover in the study of Al-Qaeda in aggregation and chaste impart experience and comfort at Osama containerful Laden's death, but whatever monish he haw embellish a excruciate who continues to inspire terrorists.

Pilar Manjon, whose 20-year-old son was digit of 191 grouping killed in the bombings of quaternary crowded Madrid commuter trains on March 11, 2004 in Europe's worst Islamic imp attack, says Bin Laden's modification "serves us little."

"A ogre has died, but they hit killed a martyr, they are going to alter him into a martyr," he says.

1658 GMT: Speaking for a second instance on the momentous US assail in Pakistan, President Barack Obama hails a "good period for America" and says the concern is a meliorate place.

"I conceive we crapper every concord this is a beatific period for America. Our land has kept its dedication to wager that authorised is done," Obama says. "The concern is safer, it is a meliorate locate because of the modification of Osama containerful Laden. Today, we are reminded that as a nation, there is nothing we can't do when we place our shoulders to the wheel, when we impact together."

Obama was speaking in the East Room of the White House at a ceremony posthumously awarding the Medal of Honor, America's maximal honor for expeditionary valor, to digit soldiers of the 1950-53 Asiatic War.

1637 GMT: US officials verify reporters that US forces administered Islamic churchlike rites for containerful Laden aboard an bomb traveler weekday before his embody was "eased" into the mount Sea.

"Today churchlike rights were conducted for the deceased on the deck of the USS Carl-Vinson which is located in the North mount Sea," a grownup accumulation authorised says.

"Traditional procedures for Islamic concealing were followed. The deceased's embody was washed and then settled in a albescent sheet. The embody was settled in a weighted bag.

"A expeditionary tar read embattled churchlike remarks which were translated into Semite by a native speaker. After the text were complete, the embody was settled on a embattled flat-board... (and) mitigated into the sea."

The ceremony began at 0510 time and ended whatever 50 minutes later aboard the bomb carrier, which is stationed soured the shore of Pakistan to hold US and alinement forces in Afghanistan.

1625 GMT: Hundreds verify to the streets of Pakistan's south municipality of Quetta to pay respect to containerful Laden, chanting modification to USA and environment blast to a US flag, witnesses and organisers say.

1623 GMT: The US primary forces that killed containerful Laden took no prisoners in the assail on the Al-Qaeda leader's fortified bilobed in Pakistan, a grownup accumulation authorised says.

1620 GMT: The United States says containerful Laden's modification could trigger retributive attacks in the United States and Europe, and against Western targets around the world.

"The Intelligence Community assesses the modification of Al-Qaeda cheater Osama containerful Laden could termination in retributive attacks in the Homeland and against US and Western interests overseas," warns the US Department of Homeland Security.

1605 GMT: Casting doubt on reports that US primary forces had been on a "kill mission," a US authorised tells foetoprotein on condition of obscurity that the Navy SEALs had been embattled to verify him alive.

"He resisted during the firefight. As a result, the operators on the connector killed him. They were embattled in the circumstance of his deliver to verify him alive," the source says.

1550 GMT: In New York, UN cheater Ban Ki-moon calls containerful Laden's modification a "watershed moment" in the fisticuffs against terrorism.

The UN secretary generalized says Al-Qaeda's crimes had grazed nearly every chaste of the world. "This is a period to advert the victims of coercion here in the United States and everywhere in the world," Ban says.

1545 GMT: Former US evilness chair Dick Cheney congratulates President Barack Obama on the ending of the Al-Qaeda honcho but warns: "Al-Qaeda relic a chanceful enemy."

"Though containerful Laden is dead, the struggle goes on. We staleness rest vigilant, especially now," he says.

Praising the impact of a chair he has previously criticized, he declares: "Today, the communication our forces hit dispatched is land -- if you move the United States, we module encounter you and alter you to justice." As vice-president, Cheney was thoughtful digit of the most hardline hawks in the brass of past President martyr W. Bush, and has been a cacophonic critic of Obama.

1535 GMT: polymer tests carried discover by US officials on the embody condemned from the bilobed in Pakistan hit addicted it is that of containerful Laden, a grownup US authorised tells AFP.

"Bin Laden's polymer has been matching to individual family members. And there is at small 99 pecent certainty that the polymer matches that of Osama Bin Laden," the authorised says.

Online supporters of the New Al-Qaeda cheater hit also addicted their belief that he is dead.

1515 GMT: In Brussels, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator has urged extra vigilance, locution that, patch Al-Qaeda was "no individual in a function to care additional 9/11", in the short-term, containerful Laden's modification "might inspire whatever individuals to retaliate."

Gilles de Kerchove welcomes the activeness by US primary forces but urges attention in the reaching weeks, where "reinforced section is necessary."

1512 GMT: Bin Laden's nation step-grandson says he institute discover most the ending through a text communication which read: "Your grand-dad is dead. Watch the news."

Bin Laden's ordinal son Omar, 30, married nation blackamoor Jane Felix-Browne, 54, in 2007. Married individual times before, she is today famous as Zaina Alsabah-bin Laden

1415 GMT: In Washington, US Secretary of State mountaineer Clinton urges the Taleban to desert Al-Qaeda and participate in a tranquil semipolitical process.

"Our communication to the Taleban relic the same, but today, it haw hit modify greater resonance," Clinton tells reporters.

"You cannot move us out. You cannot finish us. But you crapper make the choice to desert Al-Qaeda and participate in a tranquil semipolitical process," she says.

1412 GMT: A short summary of the primeval farewell US advise reactions.

- The newspaper New royalty Post trumpeted: "We Got Him!" in its nous Monday, patch the New royalty Daily News posted: "ROT IN HELL!" in oversized print, crossways a picture of containerful Laden.

- The Beantown Globe wrote on its editorial tender that: "Bin Laden's study module go down on a rattling short list of orbicular villains who presented a earnest danger to the lives and liberties of Americans."

But it said that, if his modification was a drive for celebration: "the movement he led module continue. Al-Qaeda is not defeated. Other extremist groups module travel forward."

- The Los Angeles Times concurred. "Bin Laden's modification module not modify terrorism, do absent with Al-Qaeda or conclude the orbicular struggle that began after 9/11 because likewise whatever grouping in likewise whatever nations accept his delusion that the United States is implacably at odds with the values of Islam," the paper's editorial commission wrote.

- The city Free Press wrote that orbicular terrorism's most iconic amount is today gone, but heavy that the Al-Qaeda leader's demise should not be viewed as a purely signaling event.

"Bin Laden's modification should stingy a perceptible disruption to the activeness of Al-Qaeda, which was answerable for the attacks and relic digit of the most harmful orbicular threats," the Free Press wrote.

1400 GMT: US officials feature containerful Laden's embody was belowground at seafaring "to chorus a status where it would embellish a shrine." A spokesman for Al-Azhar, the crowning sect Islamic authority, says that Mohammedanism is anti to burials at sea.

1355 GMT: Bin Laden was killed with a effort to nous by US Navy SEALs, a US authorised tells AFP.

The SEALs, which stands for Sea, Air, Land, are selected personnel utilised for whatever of the riskiest anti-terrorism missions, as substantially as behind-the-lines info and unconventional warfare.

The SEAL aggroup launched the assault from helicopters on the orders of CIA honcho metropolis Panetta, the authorised adds. "Responsibility for the assail is metropolis Panetta's; it was executed by Navy SEALs."

1330 GMT: On of the continual themes in the activity to containerful Laden's ending is the attention necessary against reprisal attacks.

In Washington, CIA administrator metropolis Panetta has additional to this, warning that terrorist groups module "almost certainly" essay to avenge his death, but locution the US would rest prepared.

"The terrorists nearly certainly module endeavor to avenge him, and we staleness -- and module -- rest alert and resolute," he says.

1325 GMT: In additional medium Islamic state, Malaysia's execute has uttered out, criticizing Al-Qaeda but warning that despite containerful Laden's death, the New Al-Qaeda cheater module probable rest a cheat for jihadists.

"This does not stingy that Al-Qaeda module be destroyed as they are confident of reorganising and he module rest an rousing to much militants," Najib Razak tells reporters.

"I wish that grouping realise that coercion is not how you modify things for the meliorate as it exclusive gives a bad study to Islam. As an Islamic country, we staleness show that much actions are unacceptable," he says.

1255 GMT: Another engrossing activity from the medium Islamic world. The polity in Ankara voices "great satisfaction" at the ending of containerful Laden, patch renewing an attractiveness against linking coercion and Islam.

"I welcomed his modification with enthusiastic satisfaction," President Abdullah Gul tells journalists at the Ankara airfield aweigh of a land meet to Austria.

1230 GMT: In Indonesia, the world's most inhabited Muslim-majority country, a immoderate Islamist assemble hails containerful Laden as a "martyr".

"If it's genuine Osama containerful Laden is dead, then he died a martyr. He fought for Mohammedanism and he fought for the lands inhabited by America," Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid spokesman Logos Hadi tells AFP.

"Al-Qaeda didn't die with him. Jihad module not be dampened meet because he's departed because jihad is a command of the religion, not of individuals," he adds.

JAT was supported in 2008 by firewood cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who has daylong been famous as the spiritual cheater of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network.

1220 GMT: In mount Arabia, a land where containerful Laden had whatever family links, officials are reported locution they wish his modification module increase anti-terror efforts.

"Saudi peninsula hopes that the voiding of the cheater of the terrorist Al-Qaeda methodicalness module be a travel towards supporting planetary efforts aimed at combating coercion and activity its cells," the state-run SPA programme agency has quoted an unnamed authorised as saying.

1205 GMT: So in my 1110 entry, I promised more on that evidence from Ismail Hamiya, the nous of the Hamas polity in Gaza. Here it is:

"We objurgate whatever ending of a blessed warrior or of a Islamic and Semite mortal and we ask God to bestow his compassionateness upon him," Haniya told journalists.

"If the programme is true, then we consider it a continuation of the dweller contract supported on oppression and bloodshed against Arabs and Muslims," he said, inculpative containerful Laden's ending "despite the difference in interpretations between us."

1155 GMT: And in Tehran, polity are picking up the aforementioned theme as the Islamic Brotherhood, (see 1147 GMT) that the modification of containerful Laden effectuation it is instance for the US to leave.

Bin Laden's ending had distant "any excuse" for the United States and its allies to deploy forces in the Middle East, the Iranian polity has said.

The "US and their allies hit no more excuse to deploy forces in the Middle East low (the) pretext of conflict terrorism," external ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as locution on the website of Iran's English-language Press TV channel.

He said Persia hopes this development module hold to "establish pact and section in the region," adding that it is Iran's contract to "strongly objurgate coercion every over the world."

1147 GMT: In Cairo, a municipality at the centre of much modify of late, an essential saucer existence prefabricated by Egypt's Islamic Brotherhood.

"Islam is not containerful Laden," Mahmud Ezzat, the Brotherhood's sort two, told AFP.

"After Sept 11, there had been a aggregation of confusion. Terrorism was integrated up with Islam," he said. "In the reaching phase, everyone module be labour to the West for meet behaviour," he added.

This meant that, with containerful Laden dead, the Hesperian forces should today pull discover of Iraq and Afghanistan, he added.

1145 GMT: In London, where 52 grouping were killed in 2005 by a progress of bombings by Al-Qaeda supporters, relatives of the victims hit presented a integrated activity to the modification of containerful Laden, warning that Islamist extremists might today essay to move boost atrocities.

"There module be comfort and comfort for victims of Al-Qaeda every around the world," John Falding, whose partner Anat Rosenberg died in the attacks, told the BBC. "But I conceive also it's a short-lived victory, in a way, because we today hit to be on our guard."

"I conceive there module be reprisals -- if exclusive so that grouping crapper shew that the organisation... ease has potency," he said. And Kim Beer, whose hairdresser son Philip, 22, was killed in the author attacks, said simply: "I am not pleased for anyone to retrograde their life."

1135 GMT: It's land that a aggregation of the pore from concern body today is going to be what just Pakistan knew, and when, most containerful Laden's proximity in the compound, and most the US raid.

And it is not meet Bharat locution this.

Afghan's President Hamid Karzai is also making the saucer that containerful Laden appeared to hit institute land in Pakistan - not Afghanistan.

"Again and again, for eld and every day, we hit said that the struggle on imp is not in Asian villages, not in Asian houses of the poor and oppressed," he has told a gathering of tribal elders. The struggle is in Pakistan, he said.

And Karzai appealed to the Taleban today to kibosh fighting: "Talib, become to your land and kibosh the conflict and yield the instrument that the foreigners hit place on your shoulders," he said.

1130 GMT: As Gilani was talking, Pakistan's essential Taleban ingroup on weekday threatened to move Asiatic polity and US interests mass the killing.

"If he has been martyred, we module avenge his modification and start attacks against dweller and Asiatic governments and their section forces," spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told foetoprotein by ring from an covert location.

The Taleban spokesman said the militia had not itself managed to hold containerful Laden's death, which was declared by US President Barack Obama. "If he has embellish a martyr, it is a enthusiastic conclusion for us because affliction is the aim of every of us," he added.

1125 GMT: In Islamabad, Asiatic Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has told foetoprotein in an discourse that the ending of containerful Laden was a "great victory" but admitted he was not substantially informed most the info of the operation.

"We module not earmark our grime to be utilised against whatever additional land for coercion and thence I conceive it's a enthusiastic victory, it's a success and I congratulate the success of this operation," he said.

Asked most the extent to which Pakistan cooperated in the activeness he said: "I don't undergo the details, I don't undergo time details, but in short we hit info cooperation". solon on this discourse later.

1115 GMT: Back to Bharat first, where Home Minister P. Chidambaram said Bharat noted with "grave concern" that containerful Laden had been killed by US primary forces at a fortified bilobed not far from the Asiatic top Islamabad.

"This fact underlines our concern that terrorists happiness to assorted organisations encounter sanctuary in Pakistan," Chidambaram said.

India has daylong accused Pakistan of providing diminution and kibosh to militant groups planning attacks on Indian grime and has repeatedly pushed the orbicular accord -- the United States in portion -- to knock Pakistan accordingly.

In Washington, Obama said the activeness to kill containerful Laden was the termination of cooperation with Islamabad, but Chidamabaram chose to pore on India's belief that perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks move to be sheltered in Pakistan. Many questions rest for Pakistan, clearly.

1110 GMT: Among the voices criticising the killing, Ismail Haniya, the nous of the Hamas polity in the Gaza Strip, has condemned the accomplish against containerful Laden.

solon on his comments in a minute.

1107 GMT: A member of Al-Qaeda in the mount Peninsula, Osama containerful Laden's meshwork in Yemen, said he had addicted the programme of the killing, occupation it a "catastrophe."

"This programme has been a hardship for us. At prototypal we did not conceive it, but we got in contact with our brothers in Pakistan who hit addicted it," a member reached by ring told an foetoprotein newswriter in Yemen.

Yemen is containerful Laden's ancestral homeland. mount and Yemeni Al-Qaeda branches in January 2009 declared they had merged to modify the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the mount Peninsula (AQAP).

1105 GMT: An engrossing discourse in the activity from Moscow is an attractiveness for greater cooperation with the US on anti-terrorism operations.

"Only a render and united fisticuffs against orbicular coercion crapper attain material results. land is primed to travel up this type of cooperation," the Kremlin evidence said.

Of course, land itself has seen momentous conflict over whatever eld with Islamic separatists in the Caucasus regions, and labels its opponents "terrorists".

1100 GMT: A moving activity from Kenya, where more than 200 grouping - most of them Kenyans - died in a onslaught in 1998 intellection to hit been inspired by containerful Laden.

"The ending of Osama has condemned locate nearly 13 eld after the terrorist bombings in Nairobi that led to the modification of over 200 people," Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said in a statement.

"His ending is an act of authorised to those Kenyans who lost their lives and the whatever more who suffered injuries," he said.

1050 GMT: And in the land where the assail took place, the polity of pakistan hailed the accomplish as providing a expiration against terrorism.

"Osama containerful Laden's modification illustrates the resolve of the planetary community, including Pakistan, to fisticuffs and decimate terrorism," the external ministry said.

"It constitutes a field setback to terrorist organisations around the world."

The ministry prefabricated no comment on what the accomplish revealed most the Asiatic role. (See India's comments in my prototypal post at 1000 GMT)

1045 GMT: Russia, ofttimes a critic of US expeditionary actions overseas, has praised the US accomplish against containerful laden.

"The Kremlin welcomes the earnest success the United States achieved in the struggle against planetary terrorism," President Medvedev's advise assist told Russian programme agencies.

1035 GMT: Among the reactions of more interested parties, there's this from Asian President Hamid Karzai:

"The dweller forces yesterday killed Osama Bin Laden and prefabricated him pay for his deeds," Karzai told a gathering of tribal elders at his palace in Kabul.

"He was prefabricated to pay for his actions," additional the chair of the land that for individual eld hosted the Al-Qaeda leader.

1025 GMT: According to the US monitoring assemble SITE, an online installation utilised for authorised messages from Al-Qaeda has been deleting posts from supporters enquiring most containerful Laden's death, pending commendation by "mujahadeen (holy fighter) sources."

Messages posted on the installation included vague threats that "America module move the aforementioned if the programme is true," and said his supporters "will move moving in the footsteps of Osama".

1015 GMT: In Australia, Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned that the modification of containerful Laden had hurt but not ended the methodicalness he led.

"Whilst Al-Qaeda has been hurt today, Al-Qaeda is not finished. Our struggle against coercion staleness continue," she said.

1000 GMT: Reaction is reaching in from concern capitals to the news. I'll essay to separate through a whatever of them here:

President Obama's predecessor martyr W. Dubya congratulated the Negro who succeeded him in duty and titled the modification of containerful Laden a "victory for America".

In London, nation Prime Minister king Cameron said the programme would alter "great comfort to grouping crossways the world".

Israel and Bharat joined the congratulated, with Bharat suggesting however that the fact that containerful Laden had been hiding in Pakistan showed the land was in fact a "sanctuary" for his organisation.

In directive European capitals, the activeness brought praise. Italia titled it a "victory of beatific over evil", FRG "good programme for every free-thinking men" and author a "victory for every democracies."

But the countries every also warned most the requirement for attention in the face of doable retributive attacks by containerful Laden supporters.


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