10Wednesday 4th May, 2011 A Pakistan army soldier stands on top of the house where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the master-mind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thou-sands of people, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP) KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. and NATO officials sought to reassure Afghans on Monday that Osama bin Laden's death will not weaken their mission in Afghanistan, even as the Afghan president said the successful strike in Pakistan shows that the fight against terrorism should focus more outside his country's borders. The conflicting statements under-score the confusing nature of the war in Afghanistan, where Afghans alter-nately chafe under and need interna-tional forces. When he decided to expand the U.S. military force in Afghanistan in 2009, President Barack Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaida" — a goal some could say has been met by its leader's death. Now it's unclear what bin Laden's demise will mean for the future of Afghanistan, where about 150,000 NATO troops — most of them American — are embroiled in daily fighting with Taliban insurgents. On "For years we have said that the Abdul Satar Kahawsi, a parliamentari- Taliban. 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PresidentHamidKarzai,forhisfallbU.aSc.kaimntboacssiavidlorwaKr.arlEikenberryawnildlfminayalbleythhaevseespoemaceesnucecgeostsi.atTihoenysTwhoeryksdaonn'dttbheleieTvaeliibnanpawritlilcinpoattgiinvgeiunpa. part, lauded bin Laden's death as a and NATO were quick to issue state- are also Afghan and we can't fight democratic system, but rather they serious blow to terrorism. ts promising Afghans that with them forever," said Agha Lalai, a are hoping to bring it down, so it will "American forces have killed men OsamabinLaden,deliveringhimhistAhmeecroiucantnrfy,orecveesnwthoouludghnobitnabLaanddeonnfmoermsobuetrhoefrtnhKeagnodvaehranrmpernotvicnocuen.cilansotsuhcahv,e"ahneisamipd.actonreconciliation due punishment," Karzai told an was dead. An elderly man in Kandahar city The Taliban, for their part, said assembly of district government offi- Many Afghans, however, expressed who said he remembered when bin they would not be deterred. 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The commander, who spoke QaidaandTalibanleadersreportedlypprlaesceenftorinUt.Sh.istrroeogpiso.n,Tthheeyywaarentdtiosbefhroomnte,"insaKidanAdhamhaard.SHaerwhaasdirferfoermrihnigsasnpookneysmmoauns,lysabiedctahuasterheveewnagsenatottaacks live. cussing having permane t bases," -said to the reclusive one-eyed leader of the were being planned. n A car is crushed by a fallen tree in suburban Auckland, New Zealand after a tornado ripped through Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The tornado ripped across part of New Zealand's largest city, upturning cars and sending debris slicing through the air, witnesses and news reports said. (AP) Albany at mid afternoon, tearing off roofing iron, flattening trees and tossing vehicles around, COPENHAGEN, Denmarkracanithcihwupdneurdesiseesiwntdi".saseweTheridsrekecidnalop (AP) — and they had to get help," said Hamish Blair,Denmark's top prosecutor down has charged a Chechen-born man whose golf supplies store was in the hardest-hit with terrorism for allegedly prepar- area. "There's probably six or seven seriously dam-ing a letter bomb likely intended for aw cars aDanishnewspaperthatpublishedaabgoeudtca3r0s,maentedrIss(100feet)filnyitnhgeoafifr.t"heground cartoons of the Prophet Thetornado first touched down in Albany and Muhammad. then passed through neighboring Birkenhead. Most Joergen Steen Soerensen said of the serious damage was in Albany, where a shop-Tuesday that Lors Doukayev wanted ping mall, a large hardware store and a supermar-to "seriously frighten the popula- ket were hit. 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Armed British police officers guard the U.S. Embassy in London, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. A hight-en state of alert is in operation for fear of reprisal following the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden by the U.S's special force in Pakistan. (AP)
China calls death of bin Laden a positive event BEIJING (AP) —China called the killing of Osama bin Laden a landmark event in the fight against global terrorism and expressed support for close ally Pakistan amid suggestions Islamabad's security forces may have sheltered the world's most wanted man. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday that bin Laden's death in a U.S. raid on his Pakistani hide-out was a "milestone and a positive development for international anti-terrorism efforts." China calls for closer international cooperation in attacking terrorism and its root causes, Jiang told a regularly scheduled news conference Tuesday, repeating the text of a statement issued the night before. She said terrorism is the common enemy of the international community and that China has also been a victim. Beijing says Muslim militants fighting for inde-pendence in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have links to international terror rings. Bin Laden was killed in a large house close to a military academy in the northwestern Pakistan town of Abbottabad, not in the remote Afghan border region where many had assumed he was hiding. That has been taken as a sign of possible collu-sion with Pakistan's security establishment, which Western officials have long regarded with suspicion. Jiang said China had no doubts about Pakistan's determination in fighting terrorism, and that its actions had proven effective and were an important contribution to the global struggle. "On this point, we really should not have any doubts," Jiang said. The Chinese and Pakistani armed forces have close ties dating back decades, based largely on mutual suspicion of common neighbor India. SKorea says NKoreans hacked into bank's network SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —South Korean prosecutors say hackers in North Korea hacked into the computer network of a South Korean bank last month. Prosecutors say the cyber attack on the Nonghyup bank was meant to paralyze its system. They didn't elaborate. They say the software used in the hacking was similar to that used in a 2009 attack against South Korean websites. South Korea also blamed North Korean hackers for that attack. Prosecutors found no evidence that the hackers were attempting to make money by hacking into the bank. They said Tuesday that the hackers apparently prepared for the attack for a long time.
Customers use ATM machines at a Nonghyup bank in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 3, 2011. South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday hackers in North Korea hacked into the computer network of the bank last month.(AP)
Pakistan's president denies harboring bin Laden ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistanis were surprised at how this was given that bin Laden was holed Many a measure of suspicion do,"Pakistan's with president denied suggestions his country's security despite several notable al-Qaida up in such a large house with sur- possible, especially when initial reports stated that forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden before arrests in the country since 2001. rounding buildings, the fact that its the choppers took off from a Pakistani air base. he was killed by American forces, and said their "Some in the U.S. press have residents took the unusual step of Some were angry that the country's sovereignty had cooperation with the United States helped pinpoint suggested that Pakistan lacked burning their garbage and avoiding been violated — an especially sensitive issue given vitality in its pursuit of terrorism, any trash collection. lari f America here. othpeerAwastoiifrolndA'lsaigmZaiaonrstsdtawbraiinnstaeLidad,dmehanonw.weavsern,otthcaotnMdounctdeady'swithorworseyetthatweweredisin-t"It'shoalircdetdoiidmnaogtinheavtehaatntyheidmeailsi-theZuanrpdoapriusaidtyito"wasnotajointoperation"—the Pakistaniforces—confirmingaccountsbyU.S.offi-genuousandactuallyprotectedthearhyatorwapsgoingoninsideofthat,"kindofwhichhasbeenconductedinthepastagainst terrorists we claimed to be pursu-PZciaaakrlidssattrhaiandtiwIdsalsnaonmtoartebtfaoedlrdtwaoabsAonumotettrihinceavoonplveaercdactoiiunonntthsentrthiaalitidt.ing.SuchbaselessspeculationmaywLevSinusspaiicdi.nswerealsoairedinllPeeaasksdietsrhtateenmrirctooorobspiuensrpaLetaicodtnes,niinnPaagkiesntearnal—sebnustet,hhaatdhelped make exciting cable news, but it o doesn't reflect fact," Zardari wrote. many Pakistan's media and on the . wasHoisvecr.ommentsinaWashingtonPostopiunionpieceTiesbetweenthetwonominalstreetTuesday.bet"wAeednectahdeeUonfitceodopSteartaetsioanndanPdakpiasrttannelresdhiupptothe allies were already strained amid "That house was obviously a sus-sMusopnidcaioynwsebryeUP.aSk.ilsatwanm'safkierrstsfaonrdmaolthreerspcorintsiecst,otheU.S.accusationsthatthepiciousone,"saidJahangirKhan,tehliremaitntaotitohneocfivOilsizaemdawboirnldL,"adheensaaisda.continuing Pakistanis are supporting mili- who was buying a newspaper in tants in Afghanistan and Pakistani Abbottabad. "Either it was a com- President Barack Obama also said the country's IwshlaicmhacboafduladnfdursWtthaaesnrh.isnogutrornealtataiocnrsucbieatlwpeoeinntintheangeroverAmericandronepletefailureofourintelligenceagen-anti-tteirorno,rbaulltidaindcenohtatdhhaenlkpePdaiknistthaenrwunh-eunphteothe attacks and spy activity on its soil. ciesor they were involved in this opera mwialriBtiainrnyALaagdchaeadneniwmaysiknitllheedbiunstalilanrggneohrothusweesctleorsenttooawnTheycametoheadinlateJanuaryaffair."annoTuhnecdeedatthheofdebaitnhLoafdbeinnhLaasdreani.sedfearof after a CIA contractor shot and U.S. officials have said that s roefgiAobnbowthtaebreadm,annotyihnatdhaesrseummoetdehAefghhaadnbbeoerndehroledkilledtwoPakistan's,inwhatAsif Ali Zardarigneerevinbothcks,attahcihw—natsikaPeddrunnheesashkistaniofficialaPewsnerttodloitsandesalliaybskcadiaQ-licsuofstaateid Washington said was self-defense. about the early morning helicopter up. That was quickly taken as a sign of possible col- U.S. Senate Armed Services raiduntil the strike team had killed bin since 2007 — and internationally. The U.S Embassy lusion with the country's powerful security establish- Committee Chairman Carl Levin said Pakistan's Laden had returned to Afghanistan from where they said its missions in Pakistan would remain closed to ment, which Western officials have long regarded intelligence and army have "got a lot of explaining to took off from, citing security reasons. the public until further notice.