From the Archive: A Photo Timeline of Al-Qaeda Attacks
Kyaemon 
From the Archive: A Photo Timeline of Al-Qaeda Attacks
Experts believe the first Al-Qaeda attack took place in 1992 in Yemen. American troops bound for Somalia were staying at two hotels in the port city of Aden. Bombs were detonated and killed two people but none were US Troops who had already moved on from the hotel. In 2000, came what most people know as the first attack – the bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of the same port city of Aden, Yemen. The World Trade Center was the site of the first attack on American soil where Al-Qaeda detonated a truck bomb under the building.
Below is a partial photo timeline of most Al-Qaeda attacks around the world (excluding Iraq because there are just too many) beginning at the World Trade Center in 1993 and up to the 2010 intercepted mail bombs, packaged in printers, bound for Jewish Centers in Chicago and originating in Yemen.
139 pictures. Wow! Be Sure to click the above link for many more pictures. (Another 128 of them! ).
From the terror and destruction, you can see why Bin Laden, the head mass murderer, got what he deserves.
BTW, see picture # 8. The blind Egyptian “cleric” (priest) was part of his group. Should a priest teach mass murder, mayhem, and violence? In fact, Al Qaeda’s # 2 man, after Bin Laden, is Zawahiri. He is also a “cleric.”
Lesson: Not all monks or priests are true priests. Some are fakes, out to make an easy living and to lord over you, all the time arrogantly claiming that they are “holier than thou.”
4 comments
ဆူး
May 4, 2011 at 6:26 am
အဲဒီနေ့ကပေါ့.. အိမ်မှာလည်း ဗုံးပေါက်သွားတယ်။ အသံ အကျယ်ကြီးဘဲ ကြားရတာ လန့်သွားတာဘဲ။ တော်တော် လည်း အလုပ်ရှုပ်သွားခဲ့ရတယ်။
Kyaemon
May 4, 2011 at 8:24 pm
Osama bin Laden operation causes Pakistan-U.S. rift
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-05/04/c_13858960.htm
Muhammad Tahir
ISLAMABAD, May 4 (Xinhua) — The death of Osama bin Laden in a Monday U.S. military operation in Pakistan has caused serious rift between the two close allies as both have come up with mistrust, analysts said Wednesday.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry Tuesday expressed deep concerns and reservations on the manner in which the U.S. commandos carried out the operation near the city of Abbottabad “without prior information or authorization from the Government of Pakistan”.
Shortly after Pakistan’s statement, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Pakistan was either incompetent or involved in sheltering Osama bin Laden when one looks at the country’s role in Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts.
A statement released late Tuesday by Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said the intelligence agency, ISI, had been providing information to the CIA and other friendly agencies about the suspected activities in Osama’s compound since 2009.
The statement further said that Abbottabad and the surrounding areas have been under sharp focus of intelligence agencies since 2003 resulting in highly technical operation by ISI which led to the arrest of some high-value al-Qaida targets in 2004. As far as the target compound is concerned, ISI had been sharing information with CIA and other friendly intelligence agencies since 2009, said the statement.
But the CIA Chief was not impressed about Islamabad’s quest and expressed doubts in an interaction with the U.S. lawmakers about the role of Pakistan.
Hasan Raza, a local analyst, told Pakistan’s Geo television that Osama’s presence in Pakistan has widened the already-existed trust gap between the two allies and now the U.S. lawmakers are even calling for aid suspension to Pakistan.
Lt. Gen. (retd) Hamid Gul, former intelligence chief in Pakistan, said that the U.S. has also conducted raids in Pakistan in the past. “The operation to kill bin Laden was not something new. It is quite unfortunate that we have permitted the United States to establish its bases and freely operate its forces in Pakistan,” Gul told Duniya TV in a recent program.
It is the view of some local analysts that Pakistan and the U.S. had never been trusted allies and the mistrust caused by the U.S. operation near the country’s biggest military academy has once again proved this.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday highlighted that taking advantage of much superior technological assets, CIA exploited the intelligence leads given by its intelligence agencies to identify and reach Osama bin Laden. But the American leaders have not yet acknowledged Pakistan’s this role in the whole episode which led to the elimination of the al-Qaida founder in a small Bilal Town where the compound of Osama bin Laden is located.
Pakistan said that this event of unauthorized unilateral action can not be taken as a rule, adding that such an event shall not serve as a future precedent for any state, including the U.S. ” Such actions undermine cooperation and may also sometime constitute threat to international peace and security,” said the Foreign Ministry statement.
Many people in Pakistan believe that the U.S. has never respected sovereignty of the Muslim nation citing the U.S. drone strikes in the country, which killed many innocent civilians as well as suspected militants.
Hasan Nisar, a local senior columnist, believed that Pakistan had cooperated with the U.S. in the operation but the government is reluctant to say anything clear.
Nisar said that now Pakistan should tackle the situation with care and the Pakistani leaders must devise a prudent approach.
The recent statement by the CIA chief that Pakistan is either involved in sheltering Osama bin Laden or incompetent is likely to cause anger among Pakistani establishment, said Nisar, adding that the CIA chief’s statement would pull apart the two nations, whose cooperation is thought to be key to defeat the militants in Pakistan and also in the neighboring Afghanistan.
Kyaemon
May 6, 2011 at 9:07 am
Pakistan army admits shortcoming on Osama intelligence
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/05/c_13860830.htm
ISLAMABAD, May 5 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s top military commanders attending a military forum here on Thursday admitted “shortcomings in developing intelligence on the presence of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan” and ordered an investigation into the circumstances that led to U.S. raid on a compound to kill the al-Qaida leader.
The Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani made it clear that any similar action, violating the sovereignty of Pakistan, will warrant a review on the level of military or intelligence cooperation with the United States, an army statement said.
The Corps Commanders were informed about the decision to reduce the strength of U.S. military personnel in Pakistan to the minimum essential, the statement said.
“As regards the possibility of similar hostile action against our strategic assets, the Forum reaffirmed that, unlike an undefended civilian compound, our strategic assets are well protected and an elaborate defensive mechanism is in place,” it said.
“The Forum, taking serious note of the assertions made by Indian military leadership about conducting similar operations, made it very clear that any misadventure of this kind will be responded to very strongly. There should be no doubt about it.”
The conference reiterated the resolve to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistan and to fight the menace of terrorism, with the support and help of the people of Pakistan, the statement said.
The conference highlighted that the achievements of Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI), against al-Qaida and its terrorist affiliates in Pakistan, have no parallel.
The statement said that one point agenda was the Abbottabad incident in which Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces. The Forum discussed the incident and its implications and on military to military relations with the United States, it added.
The conference was informed that around 100 top level al-Qaida leaders and operators were killed or arrested by ISI, with or without support of CIA. “However, in the case of Osama bin Laden, while the CIA developed intelligence based on initial information provided by ISI, it did not share further development of intelligence on the case with ISI, contrary to the existing practice between the two services.”
Kyaemon
May 18, 2011 at 1:33 am
Gilani expects US overture to Pakistan
http://bhadrakumarviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/gilani-expects-us-overture-to-pakistan.html
Pakistan PM Yousuf Gilani’s exclusive interview with Time magazine carries an important message for the Barack Obama administration. Gilani compared Pakistan to a jilted lover. The overall tenor of the interview is that Pakistan’s relationship with US is under great strain and the intelligence-level cooperation has broken down and this will have fallouts on the US’ Afghan strategy – unless the Obama administration moved quickly to kiss and make up.
Gilani took pains to underline that even after Abbottabad, Pakistan’s rapprochement with Hamid Karzai is intact, as they are based on pragmatic interests, implying that Pakistan can always play the “Karzai card” against the US.
Gilani was surprisingly mild on Abbottabad. His grievance was that “we should have done it [operation[ jointly.” He looked beyond Abbottabad and hinted Pakistan expects a major US gesture of reconciliation. He listed transfer of drone technology and a nuclear deal (such as US has with India) as part of Pakistani ‘wish list’.
The interview is timed with Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Kabul. But there is no tendentious remark by Gilani about India’s activities in Afghanistan. Main points of the interview:……….