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Criminals in Crippled Nation
It is beyond imagination how difficult a sate Pakistan is in.
It is beyond imagination how sinful a sate AlQaeda leaders are in.
However, it can be somewhat imagined how the American anti-terror operation has been carried out.
SECTION I: Review of Operation Geronimo
The general sequence of the operation is as follows:
Monday, May 2, 2011
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
A pair of helicopters carrying Navy SEAL Team 6 left Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. The choppers entered Pakistani airspace using sophisticated technology intended to evade that country's radar systems, a U.S. official said. (ABC News)
Ghazi Air Base, Pakistan (12:15 am)
From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, several modified MH-60 Blackhawk helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 30 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers. (National Journal)
Bin Laden Compound, Abbottābad, Pakistan (1:00 am)
The SEALs stormed the compound at approximately 1:00 am local time (8:00 pm, May 1 UTC) and engaged bin Laden's men in a firefight. Two helicopters carrying the primary assault team hovered over the compound and the SEALs fast-roped to the ground. One of the helicopters stalled, perhaps from its own prop wash, and was forced to make an emergency landing in the compound. The compound's guards opened fire as the SEALS, none of whom were seriously injured in the assault, attacked the compound's structures.
The SEALs neutralized the compound's guards, then cleared the main building room-to-room. Osama bin Laden, found in his third floor quarters, was shot twice, once in the head, and once in the chest, reportedly while trying to use one of his wives as a human shield. Three other men present at the compound were also reportedly killed in the operation, including bin Laden's adult son Khaled, the courier and the courier's brother. Also killed was a woman, Amal al Ahmed Sadah, reportedly bin Laden's fourth wife. Two other women were injured. Approximately 22 people in total were either killed or captured at the compound. Those captured were left behind to be detained by Pakistani authorities.
The raid lasted about 40 minutes, most of which was spent scrubbing the compound for information; U.S. personnel removed computer hard drives, documents and DVDs from the compound for later analysis. One of bin Laden's wives identified his body to U.S. forces after the team made visual identification, the official said.
The helicopter which had made the emergency landing was damaged and could not fly the team out. It was consequently destroyed to safeguard its classified equipment. The SEAL team helicopters were supported by multiple other aircraft, including fixed-wing fighter jets and drones. Per CNN, The Air Force also had a full team of combat search-and-rescue helicopters including MH-53 Pave Low and HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters. (Wikipedia)
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (1:45 am)
SEAL Team 6 arrives back in Afghanistan at around 1:45 am local time (9:45 pm May 1 UTC).
President Obama's Announcement at 11:35 pm EDT May 1 (3:35 am May 2 UTC):
http://www.tripline.net/trip/Map_of_the_bin_Laden_Raid-1566654170501003BC91C1F902FE5C9B
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http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00602/4-graphic_602733a.jpg
SECTION II: Ghazi Air Base, Pakistan
Even Mr. John Kerry visited the American Ghazi Base in Pakistan last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dh2ymy2_rw
The US Air base Ghazi, Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and AlQaeda's Abbottabad compound constitute a quasi-equilateral triangle. Without this base, it would be very difficult to carry out the 40-minute's assault operation at Mr. bin Laden's compound.
II-1: Humanitarian Aid
So, Mr. Osama bin Laden's hiding place was close not only to Pakistani military installations but also to some American base in Pakistan.
Posts Tagged ‘Ghazi Air Force Base’
DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: HM-15 Pilots Discuss Pakistan Relief Efforts
Written on August 18th, 2010 by...
U.S. Navy Lt. Sean Snyder, pilot, and Naval Air Crewman Second Class Kevin Strickhouser, members of the U.S. Navy’s Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (HM-15) Detachment 2 participated in a DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable, Aug. 19, and are supporting the Government of Pakistan by flying relief missions from the Ghazi Air Force Base in Pakistan.
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There currently are 22 U.S. military and civilian aircraft in Pakistan in support of flood relief operations. U.S. helicopters have evacuated more than 4600 people and delivered more than 500,000 pounds of relief supplies. In addition, U.S. military cargo aircraft based in Afghanistan have transported more than 194,000 pounds of international aid from the Pakistan Air Force’s Central Flood Relief Cell in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to required locations throughout the country in support of Government of Pakistan airlift support requests.
http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/tag/ghazi-air-force-base/
OUT On The Porch
December 17, 2010
Pakistan Flood Humanitarian Aid
Filed under: Ceremony,Flood,Pakistan — OUT @ 3:46 pm
Tags: end of humanitarian operations, Ghazi Aviation Base, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Soldiers from 16th Combat Aviation Brigade and Pakistan army soldiers pose for a group photo before the closing ceremony in Khyber - Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Dec. 2. The closing ceremony signals the end of humanitarian operations out of Ghazi Aviation Base. Photo by Pfc. Joshua Kruger.
http://outontheporch.org/2010/12/17/pakistan-flood-humanitarian-aid/
II-2: NATO's War in Afghanistan
It also looks close to the NATO supply-chain route for its Afghanistan operation:
II-3: American War on Terror
But, it looks a little far from main regions where US troops have been engaged in the War on Terror inside Pakistan.
Since January 2009 nearly 2,500 people have been killed in Pakistan as a result of US drones and Islamic militant attacks. The graphics below show how Islamic militant strongholds in the border area close to Afghanistan have been targeted by US drone aircraft, while, at the same time, Islamic militants have carried out attacks across Pakistan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10648909
II-4: American War on Crude Oil
The US. are at War in Afghanistan and Iraq. They pursue these military operations until they reach their objective which they call "VICTORY". According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment_of-the_U.S.-Military), American troops fighting in these countries number 190,000. The "Enduring Freedom" Operation in Iraq alone has almost 200,000 military personnel, including 26,000 from other countries participating to the US sponsored "Mission". About 20,000 more could join other contingents in the next few months. In Afghanistan, a total of 25,000 soldiers participate to the operation (Map 6 and Map 7).
Map 6. Petroleum and International Theatre of War in the Middle East and Central Asia
II-5: Nuclear Pakistan
It is also in the middle of nuclear facilities-studded part of Pakistan.
Pakistan
Non NPT States with Nuclear Weapons.
Arsenal Size:
Estimated between 24 and 48 nuclear weapons.
Estimated between 580 to 800 kg of highly enriched uranium, sufficient to build 30-50 fission weapons.
Key Delivery System:
If deployed, Pakistan would most likely use U.S. manufactured F-16s and/or the Ghauri I or Ghauri II ballistic missiles.
Estimated Destructive Power:
600 kt - 1000 kt (estimated)
Reported total seismic yield of 9-12 kilotons for the May 28, 1998 tests and 4-6 kilotons for the May 30, 1998 tests.
Military Fissile Material Stockpile: (estimated)
Plutonium: 0.064 mt
HEU: 1.3 mt
Disarmament and commitments to reduce arsenal size:
Opposed to signing the NPT. Largely reactive to India's nuclear policy.
Future Commitments
In support of non-discriminatory, verifiable FMCT. The treaty should cover existing stockpiles.
Nuclear Weapons Policies:
1. Nuclear testing policy:
Observed nuclear testing moratorium since May 1998.
Party to Partial Test Ban Treaty (banning atmosphere, in outer space, and under water test).
Opposed to signing CTBT.
2. Use of nuclear weapons
Retains first-use policy.
http://www.nti.org/db/disarmament/country_pakistan.html
Pakistan has been plagued by big earthquakes, big floods, brutal terror on politicians and ordinary citizens, influences and side-effects of American/NATO's War on Terror, competition for exploitation of crude oil/natural gas in the Middle East and Central Asia, and its own dangerous nuclear development in rivalry with India.
Yet, American troops have been so active within the Pakistani territory, in parallel with the more active Taliban and AlQaeda.
In this situation, Mr. Osama bin Laden was allowed to survive till May 2, 2011, for almost 10 years since September of 2001. But, unfortunately for him, America has an air base near Islamabad and Abbottabad, the Ghazi Air Base which turns out to be the major key element for success in Geronimo Operation.
SECTION III: Psychological Justification
From a psychological point of view, there is another country that has been recently plagued by a big earthquake, a big tsunami, and a nuclear problem: Japan. Watching the 3/11 Disaster of Japan and American troops engaged in large-scale aid operation in the affected are of Japan, President Mr. Barack Obama must have got determined to go on taking on Mr. Osama bin Laden.
If left as he was, Mr. bin Laden should go on obtaining a nuclear weapon someday. So, this can be a good excuse for carrying out the execution mission. It might be all to stop AlQaeda from bringing down a nuclear disaster into America in future which might become worse than the Fukushima Diichi case of Japan.
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Some Muslims are so important in modern history of the world:
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal:
As of March 2011, his net worth is estimated at US$19.6 billion, according to Forbes, making him the 26th richest person in the world on their list published in March 2011...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Waleed_bin_Talal
Dodi Fayed:
An Egyptian multi-millionaire and film producer. He was best known internationally as the boyfriend of Diana, Princess of Wales, with whom he died in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris along with driver Henri Paul on 31 August 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodi_Fayed
Yasser Arafat:
Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA),[3] and leader of the Fatah political party, which he founded in 1959.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
Osama bin Laden:
The founder of the al-Qaeda organization, which is largely believed to be responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi:
The ruler of Libya since a military coup on 1 September 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
Bashar al-Assad:
President of the Syrian Arab Republic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
Yet, their era looks like going away. What the Islamic world in future needs is a new type of democratic heroes, such as Mr. Barack Obama.
Act 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Act 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Act 5:5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.