Thread: No resistance in "cold-blooded" U.S. raid: Pakista

No resistance in "cold-blooded" U.S. raid: Pakistan officials

By Kamran Haider and Augustine Anthony
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan | Thu May 5, 2011 8:18am EDT

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden and his comrades offered no resistance when killed by U.S. special forces in a Pakistani town, Pakistani security officials said on Thursday.

U.S. accounts of what happened have changed throughout the week, and initial characterizations of a 40-minute gun battle have given way to officials being quoted as saying only one of the five people who were killed had been armed.

The White House has cited the "fog of war" as a reason for initial misinformation on whether bin Laden -- who was shot in the head -- was armed when U.S. Navy SEALs raided his compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad early on Monday.

Two senior Pakistani security officials, citing their investigation, said there was no firefight because the inhabitants never fired back.

"The people inside the house were unarmed. There was no resistance," one of the officials said.

"It was cold-blooded," said the second official when asked if there was any exchange of fire during the operation which, U.S. officials said lasted nearly 40 minutes.

The officials declined to say how they got their information, but officials had earlier said wounded had been detained.

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the assault show three dead men -- not including bin Laden -- lying in pools of blood. No weapons could be seen in the closely cropped images.

The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who was in the compound after the raid, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a T-shirt, blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.

($1 = 84.750 Pakistani Rupees)

(Editing by Chris Allbritton and Nick Macfie)

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He deserved Far worse than two well aimed bullets.

While we are at it, CUT ALL AID TO PAKISTAN please...Thanks

Can Christians celebrate bin Laden’s Death?


By Jordan Sekulow


In the aftermath of the successful U.S. military raid that ended in the killing of the most wanted terrorist in the world, we saw thousands of Americans take to the streets and gather at Ground Zero to celebrate, waive flags, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and sing “God Bless America.â€

It must come as a shock to find that Americans can be as cold blooded as as the terrorists that have been attacking us. 13 years on death row and lethal injection was not an option. JMO
I guess the administration's answer is to give Pakistan more money.

First the tears, now the anger: Pakistanis burn U.S. flags as backlash over Bin Laden's death grows

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:03 PM on 4th May 2011

Bin Laden had 'extensive support network' in Pakistan, claims Cameron
PM insists 'searching questions' must be asked about help given to Al Qaeda leader but says it is in national interest to co-operate in fight on terror

Pakistan's president: Claims we harboured Bin Laden 'baseless'

These were the angry scenes across Pakistan today as Muslims staged protests against the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

Hundreds of people marched through Multan, burning U.S. flags and waving placards as they warned the terrorist's death could produce many more radical figures to take his place.

It comes after crowds of weeping mourners were pictured offering funeral prayers for the Al Qaeda mastermind widely blamed for thousands of deaths at 9/11.


Hate: Pakistani men burn a U.S. flag during angry protests in the city of Multan. Hundreds marched through the streets in protest at the killing of Osama bin Laden




Threatening: Demonstrators claimed that the killing of Bin Laden would produce many more terrorists to take his place

They will heap further pressure on the British government to justify the £650million aid package sent to a country where so many appear to hate us.
Only today Lashkar-e-Taiba - the militants behind the Mumbai terror attack - said Bin Laden's 'martyrdom' would not be in vain.

David Cameron has insisted it is in Britain's national interest to continue to co-operate with Pakistan in the fight against terrorism as debate intensified over a £650m aid package handed the country just weeks ago.

The Prime Minister said there were 'searching questions' for the Pakistani government to answer after U.S. special forces tracked down the Al Qaeda leader to a large villa complex close to the country's leading military academy.


Mourning: Supporters of Jamatut Dawa unite in prayers in Karachi. Prayer sessions were held across Pakistan for Bin Laden
He said the terrorist leader's ability to live in a large house there showed he had an 'extensive support network' in the country and it was right to ask 'searching questions' about that.

But in a statement to MPs, he stressed that Pakistan had suffered more at the hands of terrorism than any other nation.

'I believe it is in Britain's national interest to recognise that we share the same struggle against terrorism,' he said. 'That's why we will continue to work with our Pakistani counterparts on intelligence gathering, tracing plots and taking action to stop them.'

He acknowledged however the disclosure that Bin Laden had been living in a large house in the town of Abbottabad, 60 miles from the capital Islamabad, suggested he had a support network in the country.

CAMERON URGED TO SCRAP PAKISTAN HANDOUTS

David Cameron is under pressure to scrap Britain’s annual £350million handout to Pakistan after the U.S. Congress signalled it would reduce its aid to the country.

Pakistan will be the biggest recipient of British aid by 2015, as grants rise from £140million in 2009/10 to £350million a year over the next four years.

Half the aid to Pakistan is meant for education, yet the country devotes only 1.5 per cent of its national income on schools while spending billions of pounds on warplanes and submarines.

American politicians signalled they could slash their £780million aid budget.

Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said: ‘To make contributions to a country that isn’t going to be fully supportive is a problem for many.’

'We don't know the extent of that network so it is right that we ask searching questions about it and we will,' he said.

‘Of course there are frustrations and questions that will be asked about who knew what in Pakistan and how could this man live in such a large house in such a comfortable-looking community so close to military installations.

In Westminster, politicians of all parties also expressed disbelief at denials from the country’s authorities that anyone knew Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad.

Tory Party chairman Baroness Warsi said: ‘I don’t think we can say that absolutely nobody, informally or formally, in Pakistan knew that Osama Bin Laden was there.’

Labour MP Paul Flynn said there had been ‘six years of treachery by powerful people in Pakistan’.

Mr Cameron sought to use the disclosure that bin Laden had apparently spent years living in comfort to debunk the 'myth' of the Al Qaeda leader as a brave guerrilla fighter.

'The myth of Bin Laden was one of a freedom fighter, living in austerity and risking his life for the cause as he moved around in the hills and mountainous caverns of the tribal areas,' he said.

'The reality of Bin Laden was very different - a man who encouraged others to make the ultimate sacrifice while he himself hid in the comfort of a large, expensive villa in Pakistan, experiencing none of the hardship he expected his supporters to endure.'

Mr Cameron sparked a diplomatic row last year by accusing Pakistan of 'looking both ways' on terrorism. But today he strongly defended the country's stance on stamping it out.

We got him: President Obama shakes hands in the Rose Garden of the White House following a Teacher of the Year award presentation ceremony today, the day after he announced that Bin Laden had been shot dead

He said: 'As far as they were concerned, Bin Laden was a foreigner who had no business being in Pakistan, who brought nothing but misery to their country.'

The Prime Minister prompted dismay when he announced last month that Britain would pour £650million into Pakistani education.

As special prayer sessions for Bin Laden were held in towns and cities across Pakistan, a spokesman for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks described the fallen terrorist as a 'great person'.

Yahya Mujahid, spokesman for the leader Mohammad Saeed, said: 'Martyrdoms are not losses, but are a matter of pride for Muslims.
'Osama bin Laden has rendered great sacrifices for Islam and Muslims, and these will always be remembered.'

Amidst shouts of 'Down with America" and 'Down with Obama', around 1,000 of Saeed's followers held prayers in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi.

LeT, one of the largest and best-funded Islamist militant organisations in South Asia, is blamed for the November 2008 assault on Mumbai, which killed 166 people in India's commercial hub.

Its founder, Saeed, now heads an Islamic charity, a group the United Nations says is a front for the militant group.

Compound: Pakistan army soldiers on guard outside the building where Bin Laden may have lived for years

Today Tory MP Philip Davies said the discovery of the terror chief in Pakistan had reinforced his view that Britain should not be giving money to them.

He told Mail Online: 'It seems to me that there are certainly some questions about how much Pakistani security forces knew about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.


'Why on earth we would want to be giving billions of pounds to them when there are suspicions they knew about Osama bin Laden's whereabouts for years, God only knows. It is not a country I think we should be giving money to.'

The huge cash injection for schools by the Department of International Development makes Pakistan the UK's biggest recipient of overseas aid.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said: 'British aid to Pakistan is not just aid from Britain, but also aid for Britain. It is in Britain’s national interest to help tackle the root causes of extremism such as poverty, inequality and lack of education.

'Thanks to British taxpayers, another four million children will be educated over the next four years in Pakistan. If you are a child in Karachi, your chance of getting an education is currently worse than in any other city in the world.'

Mr Cameron also pledged to give the country highly sensitive military technology to combat roadside bombs.
Pakistan has repeatedly denied having any links to Al Qaeda, and reacted furiously when the Prime Minister accused it of ‘looking both ways’ on terrorism last year.

A year ago it also vehemently rejected suggestions the some officials may be harbouring Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Today, president Asif Ali Zardari insisted it had not given the Al Qaeda chief any protection - dismissing claims otherwise as 'baseless speculation'
'Pakistan had as much reason to despise Al Qaeda as any nation. The war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's war as it is America's,' he said.

He conceded the assassination was not a joint operation between his military and the Americans but said it was based on a decade of co-operation and partnership.

The US had been worried about Pakistani intelligence leaking details of the raid and Bin Laden being tipped off so did not seek permission.

Pakistani officials were only told once the U.S. Navy Seals had recovered the terrorist's body and left the country's airspace.

Pakistan even scrambled its air force to intercept the helicopters but they did not arrive in time to disrupt them.
A Pakistani soldier on duty today at the compound in Abbottabad where Bin Laden was killed

White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said: 'It is inconceivable that Bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for extended period of time.

'We are going to pursue all leads to find out what kind of support system and benefactors that bin Laden might have had.'

Asked if he felt uneasy about the killing, Mr Cameron said he was satisfied that the operation was aimed at capturing the Al Qaeda leader - but with lethal force allowed if necessary.

'I don't think it is an eye for an eye. This man was responsible for literally thousands of deaths. The world is incomparably a better place without him in it,' he said.

'I think the operation was completely justified, lawful and right. We have to be very vigilant, particularly in the short term, because there will be dangers of reprisals from other parts of Al Qaeda or lone-wolf operators. But it is definitely a massive step forward in breaking the back of Al Qaeda and in defeating this terrorist network.'
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Nothing cold blooded about it.Was it not cold blooded when they crashed jets into the buildings yes it was these people went to work just like any other day and where killed by thugs.He new oneday it would bound to happen or he would have not been in hidding,but one good thing about it he got to look an AMERICAN in the face and know what was coming before he died.Thank God he is dead he didnt have to suffer like people did in the towers having to jump from hundreds of stories or burn alive now thats cold blooded.The people in Penn.on plane taking it over knowing they would crash and die now thats cold blooded,him justice was served.