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US Fails to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice
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Shortly after taking office oin January 2005, US President Barack Obama ordered CIA director Leon Panetta to make the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden, leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, the top priority of the US war against Al-Qaeda.

Last week, President Obama authorised an operation to "get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," the President said in a speech on 1 May 2011. A small team of Americans carried out the operation, and after a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden.

Despite President Obama's assertion that "justice has been done," the operation failed to capture bin Laden and bring him to a court of law. Bin Laden was thus never tried or found guilty of the crimes he was accused of and took responsibility for.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead

Filed under: 9/11 Afghanistan Assassination Justice Law Obama Osama Pakistan Terrorism USA War
 

What is wrong with this picture?

A year after entering the Swat Valley, Pakistan's army has begun to scale down its operations in the region. One of the big challenges they face now is to reintegrate some of the men, who were once considered the enemy, back into mainstream society. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports from Swat Valley.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/02/2011223183136464957.html
Filed under: AJE Al Jazeera Bias Media Pakistan Propaganda Swat Taliban
 

"Issues With Various Countries"
TO: Doug Feith
FROM: Donald Rumsfeld
SUBJECT: Issues w/Various Countries

We need more coercive diplomacy with respect to Syria and Libya, and we need it fast. If they mess up Iraq, it will delay bringing our troops home.

We also need to solve the Pakistan problem.

And Korea doesn't seem to be going well.

Are you coming up with proposals for me to send around?

Thanks.


http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/what-its-like-to-work-for-donald-rumsfeld/71521/
Filed under: Diplomacy Empire Imperialism Iraq Libya North Korea Pakistan Rumsfeld Syria USA
 

Ambassador at very large

A high-ranking Pakistani diplomat has been rejected as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia because in Arabic his name, Akbar Zeb, translates into a phrase more appropriate for a porn star, referring to the size of male genitals. Saudi officials rejected Zeb's credentials, apparently overwhelmed by his name, which translates into "Biggest Dick." Zeb has run into this problem before when Pakistan tried to appoint him as ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, where he was rejected for the same reason.

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/03/ambassador_at_very_large

Filed under: LOL Pakistan Saudi Arabia
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