Bin Laden’s death unlikely to inspire new generation of jihadists
It may have taken ten years to track him down, but the timing of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden could hardly have been better.
It may have taken ten years to track him down, but the timing of the assassination of Osama Bin Laden could hardly have been better.
The United States, honoring the Muslim custom of burying the dead within 14 hours, buried Osama bin Laden at sea early Monday morning.
A U.S. helicopter landed on the roof of Osama Bin Laden’s mansion in Pakistan shortly after midnight Saturday, and Navy SEAL fighters burst out and surrounded the mansion’s 12-14-foot thick walls and killed Terrorist No. 1 in a 40-minute firefight.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, and the U.S. has his body in its possession, a person familiar with the situation said Sunday.
Syrian activists began to bury on Saturday scores of protesters killed the previous day in clashes with security forces. They also pledged more anti-regime rallies in the days to come, while President Bashar al-Assad vowed to continue the national crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators.
Syrian army troops backed by tanks and three helicopters on Saturday took a prominent mosque that had been controlled by residents in Daraa, killing at least four people in and near the religious sanctuary, a witness said.
The Muslim Brotherhood is hoping to win half of the seats in Egypt's parliament when elections are held in the country this September.
President Shimon Peres, who spoke on Sunday evening at the memorial opening ceremony of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at Yad Vashem, addressed the Iranian threat.